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Don't expect the Yankees to trade top prospects for older players and rentals

Do you listen to Bon Jovi on your cassette deck? Call your friends on a mobile phone the size of your arm? Are you reading this on a Commodore 64? No? Then stop judging the Yankees' front office based on a strategy they used in the 1980's. But Doug Drabek for Rick Rhoden! But Jay Buhner for Ken Phelps! Get over it. It doesn't happen anymore.

Throughout the month we've been running a lot of potential trade target posts here at Pinstripe Alley. On just about every one, particularly if the player in question is over 30 or in the final year of his contract, there's at least one comment that goes something like this: "The Yankees need to stop trading away all their young talent for rental players and old dudes.