Welcome To The New Age of Yankees Baseball

We are in a new era in baseball. Offense is hard to come by now. That’s why when you have a bat you try really hard to hang onto them. Everyone has pitching and everyone is trying to deal pitching for bats.  Everyone is focused on run prevention and building a bullpen. The Yankees now are starting to do that too.

For years, we’ve all complained how the Yankees aren’t athletic and aren’t young in many spots. In Brett Gardner and Jacoby Ellsbury, you have two guys who are still in their prime who have speed and who can play defense and hit.

With the acquisition of Didi Gregorius at shortstop and the possibility of Rob Refsnyder or Jose Pirela starting at second, you have YOUNG players (all 25 or younger). Guys who are athletic and can cover ground. The Yankees are a better defensive team today than they were this time last week.

The Yankees can have a super bullpen and make games shorter. If David Robertson re-signs and with the acquisitions of Andrew Miller and Justin Wilson this off-season, plus Dellin Betances and Shawn Kelley, the Yankees can shut games down and quickly.

Look, if guys like Ellsbury, Mark Teixeira, Carlos Beltran and Brian McCann don’t hit, they Yankees are sunk anyway. The San Francisco Giants were 12th and the Kansas City Royals were 14th. If you can be average offensively you have a chance. You just need to get into the playoffs. It’s about being one of the five now.

For the Yankees, if you’re not going to score a lot of runs, you better prevent them. That’s what Gregorious and Miller were added for.

It’s Bronx Bombers no more. It’s the Bronx Barricade.