Yankees patient approach will save the season in July, or sink it in June

What will the Yankees Record be on July 1st?

The blueprint for a season is simple. A team shows if it can contend or not by July and the organization becomes either sellers or buyers. Patient teams wait and fill in the holes, transforming their teams from good to great.

The Blue Jays, as one example, followed this thinking the last few years. On July 1^st of 2016, they were only 43-39. Over the next six weeks, they shed under performing players, traded some farms hands, and added some key free agents. It all added up to an appearance in the ALCS.

And the key is they waited. If you followed the link, you saw they were active in May and June, but their activity increased exponentially in July and August. Again, this is standard baseball thinking.

All Blueprints are Stored on the Cloud

And whether it works or not, there is also a universal design to develop pitchers. Teams want to bring them up in the late season, so they get big league experience going into the off-season, with a hoped for carryover to start spring training and, possibly, the season at the big league level.

Luis Severino followed this path in 2015, and James Kaprielian was on the same trajectory this year. Adams and Acevedo are on this road now but because of their progress, not their pre-season potential. Either way, June is too early to alter the plan.