According to the New York Post, the Yankees send a valuable perspective to catch Jesus Montero to Seattle as part of a package for left-hander.
The newspaper reported that a deal could come together this weekend. Yankees at Seattle 4 games series, which began on Thursday evening. Lee is scheduled to begin in the Mariners in the competition on Friday.
Other teams reportedly interested in the 31-year veteran is Mets, Twins and Rangers.
Lee in his first season in Seattle after the split in 2009 campaign with Cleveland and Philadelphia. He is 8-3 with a 2.34 earned run average in 13 starts this season and enters the competition on Friday with victories in four straight trips - the first three of which were complete game efforts, and the last eight feed-gem, in which he allowed a run and fanned 11.
The Yankees apparently are interested in Lee last off-season, when the Phillies and struck him in Seattle after landing Roy Halladay in a trade with Toronto.
Lee beat the Yankees twice in the World Series last year's Philadelphia and 2008 Soo Young winner in Cleveland, when he published a report 22-3 with a 2.54 ERA.
Trade will be reuniting with Lee CC Sabathia, his former teammate in Cleveland. It can also make the Yankees make another step with the current strong rotation that includes All-Stars Sabathia, Andy Pettitte and Phil Hughes, and AJ Burnett and Javier Vazquez.
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