The Yankees, a month before the trade deadline, are unequivocally in the hunt for another starting pitcher.



“If we stay with what we have it’ll be because we didn’t think the price tags were appropriate,” Brian Cashman said on the field at Yankee Stadium an hour and a half before his team took the field to play the Red Sox in their pivotal three-game series.



Cashman said the Yankees’ plan at the deadline is still to acquire another starting pitcher, noting that “we have our troops scattered on a daily basis from analytics to pro scouting with our targets and assessments.”



Currently, the Yankees rotation as it stands now consists of Luis Severino, CC Sabathia, Sonny Gray, Domingo Gérman and the soon-to-return Masahiro Tanaka. Cashman said he’s “not tempted” to stick with the five starters he’s got as the club heads down the stretch, duking it out with their division rivals, but likened...