New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays tied the current AL East leader, remaining about a month of fierce fighting and regular season can be expected, while the rotation stability becomes critical. Today the New York media for the Vazquez (Javier Vazquez) transactions over again to the assessment that although he can eat innings, but the situation this year than last year's sharp decline, if the team into the playoffs would still be less ready to He first made.
Last year's playoffs, Yankees rely on three starting pitchers, "Sabathia" Shabaxiya (CC Sabathia), Barnett (AJ Burnett) and Bob Pettit (Andy Pettitte), to defeat the Minnesota Twins way, the Los Angeles Angels successfully reach the World Series, finally defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, won one fell swoop Kuiwei long title. This year, however many dilapidated than rotation, leaving only sand fat more stable, but also the road to the playoffs the Yankees emerged crisis.
But last year, both Chamberlain (Joba Chamberlain), Hughes (Phil Hughes), high-Ting (Chad Gaudin) or Dmitri (Sergio Mitre), has failed to stabilize down a No. 5 starter, thus, president of Kai Xu Man (Brian Cashman) Atlanta Braves decided to trade for Vazquez.