At the moment, the New York Yankees are first in the AL East, two games above their arch-rival the Boston Red Sox. According to Yankees’ GM, Brian Cashman, they will continue to look for ways to improve their pitching. (via Joel Sherman of the New York Post).

“We are a championship-caliber-contending team with areas of need that I need to work on,” he said. “We are going to have to continue to look for ways to improve our pitching.”

Sherman says that from what he has heard, the team won’t pursue a “significant bat”, so they will look for offensive improvement within the organization.

Cashman would love to add a left handed reliever because they don’t have too many options in the organization right now, and Pedro Feliciano and Damaso Marte are both injured.

The team is expected to improve their rotation adds Sherman. “Overall, the pitching is going to be the defining thing for us,” Cashman said. “The pitching has excelled, but it is not wise or prudent to sit back and try not to reinforce and improve on it.”

Even though veteran starters Freddy Garcia and Bartolo Colon have been outstanding, their health could be a concern down the stretch. Colon hasn’t pitched over 100 innings since 2005, and Garcia also has a history with injuries.

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