The Yankees might be headed to a place teams don’t want to be.
The middle.
That trade-deadline limbo where the simple math says you have a shot and the complex math insists you’re delusional. And sometimes, to complicate things, the simple math prevails in the end.
“It’s difficult,” White Sox general manager Rick Hahn said this past week. “You don’t want to find yourself caught in between, so to speak. It’s certainly much easier when you have clear direction. A level of comfort with whether you’re in this thing, or you’re not and you should be focused on the future.