Brian Cashman knows all the speculation surrounding the first-place Yankees and what they may do before the trade deadline on July 31.
And he had this message late Monday morning: "It's more likely that we don't do anything rather than predicting we do something significant," the general manager said.
Of course, that can be read as a smokescreen but recent history has seen Cashman perform minor surgery rather than major on his roster.
Last year was the most recent example, though Cashman said Monday that before the 2014 deadline he was borderline desperate to improve a leaky infield, which he did with the acquisitions of Chase Headley and Stephen Drew, and add rotation depth, which he did with the acquisition of Brandon McCarthy.