With the Yankees' bullpen struggling, Brendan Kuty of The Athletic reports the team could try to trade for the Rockies' Jake Bird. Bird has been the Rockies' best reliever this year, and since Naw York and Colorado have already completed the Ryan McMahon deal, there is familiarity between the two sides this month.

The Diamondbacks lost two of three games to the Pirates in a weekend series at PNC Park as their slide out of contention continued. That followed the Diamondbacks getting swept in a three-game series by the Houston Astros in Phoenix that signaled general manager Mike Hazen was going to be a seller rather than a buyer by Thursday’s MLB trade deadline.