Justus Sheffield understands the nature of baseball’s trade deadline period. He’s grown accustomed to the incessant commotion in July.
But the Yankees’ top pitching prospect is making an effort to ignore the several rumors involving his name, even though it’s often a challenge to block out all of the noise.
“I try not to pay attention to it at all,” Sheffield recently told D.J. Eberle of Scranton’s Times Leader. “Obviously I can see it with notifications and stuff on my Twitter and things like that, but I’ve been through it every year this time of year.