This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: Amed Rosario trade: Yankees acquire former Mets player ahead of MLB trade deadline Losing the best hitter on Earth for any amount of time is an unequivocal bad, but the Yankees are better situated to withstand a Judge-less world than they were two years ago.

Matz has transformed a negative, that being his failure to make the Cardinals' Opening Day rotation, into a positive by becoming a nifty utility pitcher. He's recorded at least four outs in 21 of his 29 appearances, and he's done so while generating a 3.29 ERA and a 5.11 strikeout-to-walk ratio.

As the Los Angeles Dodgers weigh potential deadline deals to improve their roster, they don't want to subtract from the MLB club to do so if they can avoid it.