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By Zach Pressnell
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The New York Yankees need to add a starting pitcher and they need to do it quickly.
The Bronx Bombers are going to be without their ace, Gerrit Cole, for the entire season after the righty underwent elbow surgery. They're also without Luis Gil for a significant chunk of time as he recovers from a strained lat.
Recently, starting pitcher Clarke Schmidt began suffering from shoulder fatigue which could cause him to miss some time. New York needs to add starters and there's one team that has more pitchers than they know what to do with: the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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The Dodgers have eight big league-caliber starting pitchers (Blake Snell, Roki Sasaki, Tyler Glasnow, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Dustin May, Clayton Kershaw, Tony Gonsolin, and Shohei Ohtani) and only five spots in the rotation. And that doesn't include minor league pitchers Bobby Miller, Justin Wrobleski, and a few others who could play at the big league level, too.
Ohtani still isn't back on the mound as he continues to recover from Tommy John surgery, while Gonsolin is also out with an injury right now.
But it wouldn't be crazy to think the Dodgers could explore the idea of trading Gonsolin when he returns from injury. And the Yankees would be the perfect landing spot.
New York would need to part ways with quality prospects in order to land the righty, but it's the kind of deal that could work out for both teams. If New York ships a package centered around Everson Pereira to the Dodgers in exchange for Gonsolin, both teams would get better.
Pereira would join the Dodgers' Triple-A team as he looks to work his way past James Outman and into Los Angeles' outfield. Gonsolin would slot right into the Yankees' rotation and give the team a chance to compete with Cole and company on the sideline.
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