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MLB Rumors: Top 10 Candidates to Fill Out the Back End of the Yankees Rotation

New York Yankees entered the 2010-2011 offseason with their sights set firmly on acquiring free agent lefty, Cliff Lee.  However, in the midst of a bidding war with the Texas Rangers for his services, the Philadelphia Phillies swooped in and stole Lee right out from under the Yankees' and Rangers' noses, much like the Yankees did to the Boston Red Sox in the 2008-2009 offseason with Mark Teixeira.  Nobody had seen them coming, but all of a sudden it was over, and the prize of the free agent market was gone. 

What was worse was that the rest of the market for starting pitching help, an area that the Yankees are in desperate need of a boost in, was almost nonexistent.  The two best options were the former Cy Young Award-winning, ...

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