Vote: Assessing the Yankees at the All-Star break

The New York Yankees finished the first half of the season at 45-41, 3 1/2 games back in the AL East but in possession of one of the two wild-card spots.

How would you grade their performance thus far? Who has been the team's MVP? What would you like to see the Yanks do at the trade deadline? Vote in the polls below:

New York kicks off the second half Friday with a four-game series against the rival Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.