Yankees will keep their status quo AGAIN! | Pinstripe Post

Yankees will keep their status quo AGAIN! | Pinstripe Post

Joel Sherman from Yankee Stadium for three things. Uh Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone just completed their year end uh press conference. Uh it’s now a traditional thing. The Yankees fall short of winning a World Series. Those two uh men come in and explain what happened, what they hope to do moving forward. There wasn’t a lot of details, but why don’t we start here with number one. If you uh hate Brian Kman and you hate Aaron Boon, you’re going to hate what’s coming next. Uh nothing much is changing. They changed some of the uh maybe they’re changing the curtains. Uh Mike Harky, the bullpen coach, Pat Rosler, an assistant hitting coach, uh uh Travis Chapman, first base coach, that’s who’s gone. Uh but the same people who are making decisions in the front office, the same person who’s making the decision as the manager, they’re coming back. I don’t think their philosophy is going to change all that much. So, uh, they’re putting a band back together, and I will call that band until something changes. The red zone Yankees, they’re really get good at getting close to the goal line. Uh, I asked both guys today if they had thoughts on what would get them those last yards and over the goal line, uh, into the, uh, World Series end zone. Sorry for the terrible analogy. Uh, to the Canyon of Heroes. Nobody offered anything firm except for you take more shots at this. you keep putting good teams together and you hope that one year everything lines up and goes as you hope. So that’s number one. Number two, Anthony Vulpi uh as the Post first reported exclusively yesterday had uh labroom uh repair surgery. Brian Kman said it was a little more significant than they thought. He is not going to be an active player when the season begins. The Yankees are hoping he’ll be back by midappril to early May in that period, but they’re saying he is still going to be the shortstop. They one thing they harped on a lot, it’s something I talked about in a video earlier this week is that he’s a young player and there’s hoping there’s still upside to him. Uh it will be interesting what they do with shortstop. They did trade for Joseé Calierro at the trade deadline. They should have Oswaldo Cabrera, who I watched on this field regularly at the end of the season working out, had that traumatic leg injury. Those would give them two options. I expect they’ll try very hard to bring in a good quadruple a type shortstop or not, but they’re continuing to say that Anthony Volby is the shortstop moving forward and they believe there is still an upside to the player. I am curious if Cabbolero gets off well. That’s months and months from now and who knows. But if Cavalier gets off well next year, what the implications are that coming back for a player that’s very very popular with Aaron Boone and Brian Kman, but has lost his popularity with the fan base. Number three, a little new news today. Carlos Rodon needed a cleanup of some loose bodies in his elbow uh and a bone spur shaved down. He did that in Southern California. Neil Elatrage, the fame surgeon, did it for him uh earlier this week. He is also not going to be an active player to begin the season. He is again on that same timeline as Vulpi, expected either midappril or early May with the fact that Garrick Cole is not going to be an active player to begin the season and that his timeline might match up to something similar. The fact that Clark Schmidt at best is going to be a second half option. the fact that Max Freed was a heavily used starter this year, Will Warren was a heavily used starter. There are some questions about what you have in Luis Heel moving forward and Will Warren was durable but not high-end excellent. Brian Kman wouldn’t out and out say that the Yankees are going to go get a starting pitcher this off season. And it’s a little tricky because as Brian Kman said, I have to make sure there are slots for Rhdon and Cole to come back into a rotation. And if you sign a starter and say, you know, Freed and Hill who doesn’t have uh options yet and Sch Slitter who does, but as if he continues to pitch at a high end, you want to keep everyone in the rotation. But I think the Yankees have to be in the starting pitching market at some level, whether that’s to get a kind of six starter type who could swing into the bullpen. It’s to get a young starter who can have options, who they could send to the minor leagues as it goes along. That would be in the trade market. I doubt they’re going to the top of the market. Uh Cole, Rodon, and Freed are three of the most expensive pitchers, not just now, but in baseball history, uh for how much money the Yankees outlaid for them. Uh I suspect if there’s big money spent this off season, it is going to be on Cody Bellinger. Uh we’ll see what that price ends up being. But the fact that Rodan is not going to be a viable starter in early in the uh season and that they have some other starting pitching question marks means the Yankees are going to have to get creative about bringing in a starting pitcher.

Joel Sherman reports from Yankee Stadium after Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman’s end-of-season press conferences to share his thoughts on the Bombers making minimal changes after being ousted by the Blue Jays in the ALDS to cap off. a disappointing 2025 campaign.

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