Hall and Branyan might signal end of Yankee DH search

2/8/12, "Owner Hal Steinbrenner already has expanded his budget once this offseason to allow the signing of Hiroki Kuroda. He has yet to say the Yankees can do so again in order to sign even one additional player, much less two. This is why the Yankees are quietly — but diligently — still working to trade A.J. Burnett."...

• 2/8/12, "Yankees want to keep Chavez, add DH," Joel Sherman, NY Post

2/9/12, "So one has to wonder: is this it for New York? Will they be hoping to find a diamond in the rough in either Hall or Branyan in order to fill the void left by the trade for Pineda?...If Hal wants to stick with the two question marks (Branyan and/or Hall) the Yanks have signed in the past few days and try to get through 2012 with them instead of either Raul Ibanez, Hideki Matsui or Johnny Damon,

• then he'll do just that."

2/8/12, "MLB Free Agency: New York Yankees Search to Fill DH Role Already Over?" Michael Moraitis, BleacherReport

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