This Yankees Season is Long Over! To The Off Season!

Time to face facts, facts that we should’ve faced a long time ago. It’s time to wake up, smell the coffee and the scent of changing leaves and crisper, cooler air, and admit that the Yankees season is long over. Yeah, it sucks. They missed the post-season for the second straight season. They haven’t won a World Series in five years. I know all the pitiful arguments this spoiled fan base (Including me) has cooked up in order to justify complaining about a season that so many other teams would love to have. Yeah, this season was pretty hard to watch, and it wasn’t what we or anybody expected. But, with a very strong free agent class, and less holes to fill than at last season’s end, fans of the Bombers should expect the team to give them something to cheer about, while suffering through a cold New York winter.

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Here’s the good news. The Yankees are no longer in need of a second baseman (Martin Prado or Rob Refsnyder) or a catcher (Brian McCann figures to have a big 2015 after a full year in the AL), nor do they need a center fielder or a left fielder (Jacoby Ellsbury and Brett Gardner hold those spots) and they have the ability to use Carlos Beltran in right field and at designated hitter. Alex Rodriguez will be returning (Deal with it because he can still hit well enough to help this team). Masahiro Tanaka looks like he’ll be back and we know what we can

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expect from a healthy Michael Pineda. The bad news, is the Yankees need a shortstop with the departure of Derek Jeter, and they need at least one starting pitcher as well as a third baseman because A-Rod likely won’t be able to play third all too much. They could also use some solid bench bats and some rookie infusion, but we’ll have to wait until spring training for the rookie part, so I won’t discuss that. But the Yankees can easily have their choice of starting pitching with Jon Lester, Max Scherzer and James Shields all free agents along with Brandon McCarthy, Jake Peavy and others also available.

Recent rumblings of a six-man rotation have opened all sorts of possibilities for the Yankees, which is especially helpful with the emergence of Shane Greene here in New York and Luis Severino down in the minors. They’ll likely swoop up a shortstop in someone like J.J. Hardy, Hanley Ramirez (Please no!), Jed Lowrie, Asdrubal Cabrera or the Korean rookie to be Jung-ho Kang. Third base also yields options with current Yankee Chase Headley, and San Francisco Giant Pablo Sandoval. For the bench, the Yankees will likely call up a few Baby Bombers and could probably lock up Chris Young (Whose been fantastic since signing with the team a few weeks ago) on a one-year deal, and perhaps someone like Chris Denorfia (outfielder), Mark Reynolds (1B/3B), Alberto Callaspo (2B/SS). Targeting Victor Martinez or reuniting with Melky Cabrera are also options that can open up loads of possibilities.

Okay enough of the ramblings 0f a mad man (That’s my one-man play coming out never… Broadway denied me.) But all this talk about the Yankees crawling into 2015 is nonsense, If you know the Yankees, then you know that there is no way they’ll start out 2015 without bringing in some reinforcements. This season is over. Gone. It’s deader than the Prussian Empire. It’s hard to swallow, trust me, I know. But the fall is upon us, and there’s no reason to cry over not making the playoffs, because the off-season will give us a lot to cheer about. So, when you’re sitting on your couch in warm clothes and blankets draped over you, while football, basketball, nightly sitcoms, dramas or Game of Thrones is on your television, and that annoying SportsCenter update tone goes off on your phone to tell you that the Yanks’ scooped up a star… don’t say I didn’t call it. The season is done, but the off-season will be all too fun (Channeling my inner Dr. Seuss)! Play Ball!

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