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Updating Yankees’ Top 5 Backup Plans If They Lose Masahiro Tanaka Battle

New York Yankees need starting pitching. Unfortunately for them, this happens to be a less than ideal offseason for a team to find itself in that position. Sure, Masahiro Tanaka is out there, and the Yankees are reportedly after him, per Ken Davidoff of the New York Post, but even the pursuit of a Japanese star is no longer tilted in the Yankees' favor, as it arguably once was, due to the changes to the posting system that went into effect for the first time this winter.

You could argue the Yankees badly need to land Tanaka, because after him their options to reinforce their starting rotation are less than ideal or simply unclear.

The crop of available free-agent starters is checkered with question marks, and the trade market for pitchers—if ...

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