Yankees top trade target is a player most fans have never heard of

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The New York Yankees need bullpen help, and there's absolutely no debate that, until something changes, there will be questions about the long-term outlook for this bullpen.

The Yankees' rotation seems to be one of the best in Major League Baseball when healthy, but the bullpen has lost the Yankees games at times throughout this season, and that can be a significant problem come October.

As always, there are going to be multiple bullpen arms available for the Yankees to pursue, and one of them is a player that some casual fans have probably never heard of. That player is none other than Colorado Rockies right-hander Antonio Senzatela.

According to CBS Sports, there's a feeling that he could be traded, and rightfully so, as the 31-year-old is having a career-type season with a 1.30 ERA and 26 strikeouts compared to just nine walks out of the bullpen.

“Colorado's new front office and pitching folks have tweaked some things with their incumbent pitchers. In Antonio Senzatela's case, he's added a cutter, which he is using in tandem with his sinker to limit hard contact more than miss bats. It's also helped that Senzatela has gained three ticks of velocity with the move to the bullpen. There were times in the last few years when Senzatela appeared to be on the verge of getting released. Now he's a trusted high-leverage reliever with tangible reasons to believe in the improvement,” Mike Axisa of CBS Sports wrote.

The fact that Senzatela has put up these types of numbers in Colorado is absolutely ridiculous.

He's definitely going to have some growing pains coming to a team like the Yankees and pitching in New York compared to what he's done throughout his entire career in Colorado, but the Rockies definitely need to move on from him, as he's been a consistent 5.00-plus ERA guy for a lot of his career.

The Yankees would have to hope there's no regression coming, but I think he's worth the risk right now, given how his stuff has looked.

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