NEW YORK -- The trade deadline came and went Tuesday afternoon with the Yankees doing nothing more to better themselves for a run at catching and passing the Red Sox.
They didn't get a bat to help out until Aaron Judge comes off the DL in two or three weeks and they didn't get a second ace because the Giants didn't make Madison Bumgarner available and the Mets opted to keep Jacob deGrom.
No matter, rookie manager Aaron Boone talked up boss Brian Cashman's recent moves big time, the semi-big-splash acquisitions that brought in starter J.