Suárez's current hot streak combined with the scarcity of impact bats available will embolden Arizona to ask for a king's ransom in return for his services. The Yankees could probably manage to hold on to George Lombard Jr. but they would be required to gut the remainder of their farm system to rent Suárez for a few months.

The New York Yankees are seemingly the favorites to land Eugenio Suárez, but could a surging National League club steal him at the last moment?

The New York Yankees need a momentum shifter right about now. After their loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday night, and a sloppy loss at that, the Yankees face a season-worst four-game deficit in the American League East.