Sometimes, in the risky business of running a major league baseball team, you’ve just got to say, “What the f–k?”
And when general manager Brian Cashman did not, allowing Wednesday’s trade deadline to pass without adding a single player to the big-league roster, you had better believe the players in his team’s clubhouse sure did, at least privately.
There were brave public faces and braver public words from the men in Pinstripes following the Yankees’ 7-5 victory over the Diamondbacks in The Bronx during which Zack Greinke pitched five innings of two-run, two-hit ball before his trade to the Astros that was apparently consummated during a 36-minute rain delay in the middle of the sixth.