The Yankees’ billion-dollar safety net screams ‘sell’ at deadline

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NEW YORK — Every win feels like a loss. The New York Yankees have won three in a row, moving a game above .500 and a wee bit closer to delusion.

The Yankees should sell, which we have been saying for a month. It is the best plan for the future, so they can really be contenders again, sometime soon.

A 7-1 victory over the Orioles on Tuesday is nice, as Starlin Castro (two-run homer and two-run double), Nathan Eovaldi (5 1/3 innings of one-run ball) and Anthony Swarzak (2 2/3 scoreless innings, including bailing out Eovaldi in the sixth) had good nights, but too many more of these over the next week-plus and the Yankees (47-46) might not do what they need to do.

The Yankees should unload free agents-to-be Aroldis Chapman and Carlos Beltran, while listening on basically everyone else. They need to get younger and deeper throughout the entire organization so that their financial might can really be felt as young players are joined by top free agents.

Carlos Beltran, left, could soon be giving his Yankees teammates goodbye hugs instead of high-fives as the trade deadline nears. Elsa/Getty Images

On the chance the young players acquired don’t work, the Yankees still figure to be OK.

Unlike most teams, the Yankees have a safety net. If they sell and their trades don’t end up bringing back much, they can just go to the ATM and spend a billion or so dollars. By unloading as many big contracts now …

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