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Less than an hour after landing one of the best young right-handers in baseball in Michael Pineda,
the Empire signed free agent starter Hiroki Kuroda to a one-year, $10-11 million deal. Now, officially, the Yankee rotation is
better than Boston's. Brian Cashman has engineered a Friday The Thirteenth Coup that has embarrassed BenCher and the Carmine Hose. Now, the Sox will need to make quick moves in reaction to New York—with a substantially reduced field of starting pitcher options to choose from.