Andy Pettitte had won four World Series with the Yankees by the time the 2008 season ended and, knowing he would turn 37 the next year, didn’t know if he and the rest of the Core Four would pick up another.

Several scouts praised the Yankees for the deal that brought Ryan McMahon, lefty-swinging, Gold-Glover to The Bronx in exchange for a pair of pitching prospects. 

The Mets will be in San Francisco on Friday night, just shy of the 10-year anniversary of the non-trade that helped turn their 2015 season around, the one that involved (or at least almost involved) Wilmer Flores. Flores is now in his 13th year in the majors — and sixth with the Giants — but...

The Yankees can’t seem to shake this annual second-half slump, and they can’t rely on the trade deadline to fix everything.