In finance terms a dead cat bounce is a short recovery from a long decline followed by more bad news. The Yankees hope that's not what they're seeing from an expensive stock named Carlos Beltran.
Saying Carlos Beltran had a bad April is like saying the Titanic had a bad first trip. In the season's opening month, the 38-year-old hit an impossibly awful .162/.216/.265 with a wRC+ of 24. Those numbers prompted many fans to call for his benching or his outright release, despite the roughly $25 million that the Yankees still owe him through 2016.