LoHud | Chad Jennings: What the Yankees do at the trade deadline will likely define what the future of the team will be. Keeping prospects like Luis Severino, Aaron Judge, and Greg Bird, who are nearly MLB-ready, could form a new homegrown core. They are also good enough that trading them away could fetch the team a high profile player from another team.
CBS Sports | Matt Snyder: Forbes has released its list of the 50 most valuable franchises in sports and the Yankees trail only Real Madrid in the rankings. Twelve of the 50 teams are MLB teams, kind of punching a hole in the idea that baseball is dying.