Yankees’ Brian Cashman made the deadline excuse all New York fans were expecting

What a boring and disappointing trade deadline it was for the New York Yankees, not accomplishing anything that they needed to on either side of the baseball. For a Yankees team that was expected to be very active throughout the entire deadline, this felt like perhaps the most disappointing deadline we've seen from the

Judge has missed more than two months due to a stress fracture in his upper-right rib.

Yankees' Cashman on Judge status: Can't rule out anything  ESPN

The magic trick by Brian Cashman and the New York Yankees was never making a righty-hitting catcher or late-game reliever appear.

Brian Cashman said the Yankees had conversations with the Detroit Tigers about Tarik Skubal and the Baltimore Orioles about Adley Rutschman but could not find a match