Buster Olney mongers a Yankees rumor in the way bloggers get excoriated doing.
"And they are moving closer to a deal for somebody.
Who? As of 5 a.m. Tuesday, I'm not sure.
A free agent? The best of the remaining starters, Joel Pineiro and Vicente Padilla, figure to cost something in the range of $7 million to $10 million a year....There are the usual suspects of salary-dump players, like Derek Lowe of the Braves, or Aaron Harang, who the Yankees would've taken in a mid-summer deal with the Reds if Cincinnati hadn't stuck to its demand for big-time prospects. Javy Vazquez could be a fit, if the Yankees were willing to consider bringing back a player who failed with them before....The Yankees could also target some arbitration-eligible pitchers who would cost them good young players, like a Josh Johnson, John Danks or Jorge de la Rosa (to be clear, this is pure speculation, but these are the sort of pitchers that the Yankees typically go after). Maybe it's a second-tier arbitration-eligible pitcher, like Joe Blanton...."
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