The Yankees and other teams interested in expanding the starting pitching trade pool should become Mariners fans the next few days.
The Angels host the Mariners for three games beginning Tuesday. The series begins with the Angels one game over .500, fourth in the AL West, 11 games behind Seattle for the second wild card and currently given a 2.4 percent chance of reaching the postseason by FanGraphs simulations.
This screams surrender, especially since the Angels have been bedeviled by injuries and still have 13 players on the DL, including 10 pitchers.
But the Angels have Mike Trout.