New York Yankees trying to trade Ichiro Suzuki

The New York Yankees are trying to find out ways they can wheel and deal to get some pieces for a second half run, but the bottom line is that they’re having a hard time making additional trades to the ones they’ve already made.

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New York has already acquired Brandon McCarthy and Chase Headley to add to their roster but are looking to move some pieces off it as well. Outfielder Ichiro Suzuki has long been a prime trade chip for the Yankees but that doesn’t mean he’s an outwardly attractive one.

According to reports Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com, the Yankees are trying to trade the 40-year old outfielder as general manager Brian Cashman is not sold on Ichiro as he was the choice of ownership and not of the front office when he was acquired a few years ago.

"Ichiro Suzuki, 40, wasn’t supposed to be playing every day, and as we know form the leaks of the Astros notes, the Yankees had been trying to trade him previously. Suzuki wasn’t the choice of GM Brian Cashman, and was instead an ownership call from the start."

Trading Ichiro is a lot easier said than done, as the sideshow Houston Astros had a chance to acquire him but ended up passing on a deal, as we learned in the leaked trade documents from Deadspin earlier in the month.

Ichiro has vintage appeal but he’s not the player he was back in 2001 when he was helping the Seattle Mariners to one of the best seasons in baseball history and it’s going to be a hard sell to get someone to take him on this summer.

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New York Yankees rumors: Yankees trying to trade Ichiro Suzuki

By Josh Hill | Jul 27, 2014