The odds of a minor-league free agent signing paying dividends for the big-league Yankees are like flipping a coin glued to another coin glued to 35 more coins, then flipped by a rocket launcher, never to be seen again.

That doesn’t mean former Braves farmhand Lisandro Santos, stolen by the Yankees from the Braves this past week, isn’t obviously intriguing at first sight.

Maybe Santos can emerge as the third piece in a four-player package at the deadline? Maybe he can — gasp — work his way all the way to the big-league bullpen?

Either way, the Yankees are risking absolutely nothing here for a minute chance at a major reward — a chance that gets less and less astronomically difficult to imagine when you watch Santos throw.

[yanksgoyard.com]