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Keidel: With Tanaka In The Tank, Yankees Should Trade For A Starter

Boomer and Carton have gleefully and, with the help of their producer, Al Dukes, lyrically played with “Tanaka Tuesday,” signing a Rolling Stones mutation whenever Masahiro Tanaka takes the mound on the second workday of the week.

But if Tuesday had a voice, it would likely beg for a trade with Wednesday. Indeed, no day of the week has suited the understated starter, whose efforts this year have been as muted professionally as he is personally.

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