Yankees in 3-Team Race for Teruaki Sato in Latest Prediction

The New York Yankees will have to move quickly if they want to sign Teruaki Sato. The combination of the Japanese player posting rules and the timeline of a pending MLB lockout on Dec. 1 means that Sato will be signing with a major league team at some point in November. The Yankees are almost surely interested, and they’re a number of analysts’ pick to land Sato in the end. Sato is a left-handed hitting, slugging third baseman who would fit nicely both in Yankee Stadium and in a weak link in the Yankees’ lineup.