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Executives torn on Yankees' Starlin Castro, per report

Sweeny Murti of WFAN and CBS wrote Tuesday that baseball executives seem torn on Yankees' new second baseman Starlin Castro, the 25-year-old who was traded for Adam Warren last December from the Chicago Cubs.

Castro is, by almost all measures, an improvement over last year's Stephen Drew (.201 average) and then a mix of Rob Refsnyder and Dustin Ackely down the stretch—Castro's been to three All-Star games in six seasons and has 62 regular season homers in that time.

"That's a big upgrade," an unnamed general manager told Murti.

But, as another exec said: "There's a reason the Cubs got him out of there.