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class="ui-droppable">Including this one, the New York Yankees have been winners in each of the last 24 seasons. That's meant 24 years of buying or staying the course at the trade deadline, as one does when one is a winner.

So go figure that doing the opposite before the August 1 deadline is exactly what the Yankees need now. This is a franchise in need of a turning point, and only by selling will it find it.

Brian Cashman, a key player in the Yankees front office since 1992 and general manager since 1998, took a step in that direction with the trade of fireballing closer Aroldis Chapman to the Chicago Cubs. After a quarter-century's worth of deadline moves with only the short-term future in mind, this could be merely the first in a series ...

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