Your weekly David Price Report.

"You have to say that July started out great for the Yankees, a Sunday night game at home, just like the kind of game they will play this Sunday against the Mets, an 11-1 victory over David Price and the Red Sox that made you wonder if Price would ever beat the Yankees in a big game, here or anywhere, on the first night of July or the last weekend of the regular season at Fenway."

Can I get a copy-and-paste job at the Daily News?


"The Yankees and Red Sox were still right there with each other at the top of the American League East, with the Yankees actually two games ahead in the loss column when the Red Sox left town. And since then, the Yankees have played the way they did at the start of the season, when they were 9-9 and then 10-9 at the same time the Red Sox were starting 17-2. Through Friday night, the Red Sox had lost one time since that Sunday night game. The Yankees? They ended up hanging on in the 9th on Saturday against the Mets, or would have been 8-8 since July 1."

"Hanging on in the 9th" is the same thing as "winning."

"Almost losing" is the same thing as "winning."

"Would have been 8-8" is the same thing as "9-7."

The Yankees have been hanging in there with a scorching hot Red Sox team. The Yankees have also done their part by beating the Red Sox head to head.

There is no move that Cashman can make that can prevent the Red Sox from winning.


"So now what does Brian Cashman do as his team moves up on the non-waiver trade deadline? Maybe they really can outscore everybody through October, the way they eventually did against the Mets Saturday afternoon. Or not. A month ago I thought the Yankees were the best team in the league. Not now."

A month ago, Lupica was wrong. The Yankees are not better than Houston or Boston, and I can only imagine Cleveland calmly laughing in their clubhouse at the notion of a 3-team AL Powerhouse.


"We’ll never know for sure how serious the Yankees actually were about adding Manny Machado to the stick they already have in their batting order. It would have been a dramatic and interesting play, of course, we’ve gone over that, and a statement from Cashman that he really did think his team could slug its way past the Red Sox, Astros, Indians."

I think most people with brains never took the notion seriously.

The Orioles trading Machado to the AL East?

The Yankees trading prospects to the AL East?


"The Yankees have a perfect right to think that the past three weeks look a lot differently if Torres and and Sanchez had been healthy. So no one would suggest that they aren’t still on track to win 100 games."

Kewl.

Let's get back to David Price.


"But still: When Price (him again) beat the Tigers 1-0 on Friday night, the Red Sox were 69-30, which sort of means this:

They no longer needed to even play .500 ball the rest of the way just to get to 100 wins."

Let me summarize:

The Yankees are 3 games back on the loss side, but will not catch the Red Sox if the Red Sox continue to win 70% of their games.

David Price.

The Yankees will probably need to add an impact player, but I can't think of who this player would be.

David Price.