One can only imagine the churning feeling in Brian Cashman’s stomach as he watched David Price methodically mowing his way through the Yankee lineup Saturday, allowing barely a threat and making a statement about what his presence in a Toronto Blue Jays uniform is going to mean over the last two months of season.
For in the days leading up to the trading deadline, the Yankee GM had waited in anxious anticipation to see which way his buddy Dave Dombrowski in Detroit was going to go — sell or buy. And when, with three days left, it turned out to be the former, Cashman prepared to make his bid for Price, the Cy Young-minted lefty who everyone agreed was potentially the biggest difference-maker on the market.