Among the biggest acquisitions the Yankees can make on trade-deadline week is a rolling Carlos Rodon.
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Rodon was solid for 6 ¹/₃ innings in which he allowed two runs on five hits and induced whiff after whiff in the Yankees’The Yankees asked for 10 total innings from their bullpen on Friday and Saturday and did not option or designate any reliever before Sunday’s game, trusting that a reeling unit would not be too relied upon.“Getting an out into the seventh there — we needed that,” manager Aaron Boone said of Rodon, who allowed no runs outside of the fourth inning.
He struck out 10 Rays over seven, one-run innings Monday before punching out seven Red Sox and generating 25 swings-and-misses, his most in a game in his year and a half with the Yankees. Using his fastball a bit less — from 49.8 percent on the season to 40 percent of the time Sunday — helped make it a bit less predictable and a bit stronger.“He had a good fastball tonight, good profile, good life to it, getting it to areas,” said Boone, whose rotation otherwise has been struggling. “And then that set up the other stuff that was once again effective for him.”
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