What are the Yankees biggest priorities this offseason? | Pinstripe Post

What are the Yankees biggest priorities this offseason? | Pinstripe Post

I think that the Yankees really are Cody Bellinger resigning away from being in a very comfortable position to make decisions where they’re not like if Cody Bellinger doesn’t come back, they have to fix the team in a lot of different ways. If Cody Bellinger comes back, they could do they could be opportunistic and fix at the margins. Hello and welcome to the Pinstripe Post. My name is Ryan Samson. That’s the star of the show. Joel Sherman. Today is Tuesday, October 14th. The New York Yankees season has officially ended and we are in offseason mode here, Joel. And that’s why we’re so happy to have you here in studio. Uh on today’s episode, we’re going to talk about where the Yankees are going this off season, what are the moves they could potentially or not make potentially this offseason, what players could be moved from this roster, additions that could be in this roster. We’re going to break it all down in today’s episode. But before I get to any of that, Joel Sherman, how you doing today? Good. I got my playoff cold around early and I’m still working. So, we have this good separation of church and state here or something. So, I’m not giving it to you or the lovely Heather over here. I’m uh working uh to uh stay in my own airspace, but uh I’m uh and it also means that I’m here, right? Because neither of the New York teams are in it. I’ll rejoin the playoffs here at some point. Uh certainly the World Series, maybe the end of an LCS someplace else, but we wanted to kind of wrap up the Yankee season. So, I’m glad we’re here doing it. Me as well. Uh, look, it it’s never easy to kind of unpack and figure out where this team stands, especially with how this season went. And I think you you had hit on it a bunch last week about, you know, is there a realization for this Yankees organization of are they meeting the trend that maybe is going on in baseball right now with like a Blue Jays or a Brewers where they’re high contact, low strikeout, uh, have a ton of athletes on the roster or do they continue to do more of the same where it’s a lot of power, a lot of home runs, it gets us through the whole 162 and then it’s a it’s a crapshoot pretty much in the wild in the playoffs itself. Um, but for you right now in this moment, how does this work for the Yankees and Brian Cashman, his team, what exactly are they going through right now in evaluating how they want to go about this off seasonason? So, there’s a lot to unpack there, Ryan. I think you hit a lot of the key stuff. So, let let let’s I I’d like to deal with a macro issue first, which is the Yankees haven’t won the World Series the last 16 seasons. And I think what tends to happen when there’s failure at the end, which there’s now been for 16 straight years, either at the end of a regular season, usually someplace in the postseason, is it all gets layered on top of each other. Oh, we didn’t win again kind of feeling among the fan base. I actually thought this year’s team that ended the season was better than the team that went to the World Series. Uh the team that went to the World Series was kind of Aaron Judge and Juan Stoodto and Pray for Rain like like those guys had to carry it. We spent a lot of shows last year where I was saying they’re bad at baseball. Yeah. And then at the end games one and five are lost in the World Series. They might have won the World Series if they were not bad at baseball. By the end of this year, I thought they were above average on defense. Uh that’s a lot of Ryan McMahon and Cody Bellinger improving things overall. I thought they were at least more of a threat on the bases, more athletes, more speed, Caballiero, Jazz, etc. Uh, they hit more homers this year than the Wanoto team. They scored more runs than the Wanoto team. Uh, their rotation was very similar. The bullpen was worse. Yeah. And that maybe killed them in the end also. But but I actually thought for a team that lost in the division series, it was better than a team that went to the World Series but got a favorable draw with two AL Central teams in Kansas City and Cleveland who they were much better than. So I think that one of the things Yankees have to be kind of careful about maybe the fan base thinking about it also is are we building from something a little better than they built off of a World Series team, off of an AL pennent team, which I think is probably accurate. Now, let’s deal with the other issue, which is putting the ball in play more and stuff like that. First of all, to your point, I think their defense, it might not be the Brewers, but it got better. And so, like, they’re building off of a be better defense. You’ve got to be careful at this time of year to overreact to certain things. And I certainly think that the bottom of their lineup has to put the ball in play. Guys like Vulpi, if he’s going to be on the team, and uses speed, whatever. But Ryan, since 2021, this is an easy thing to look up. The team that hits more homers wins 90% of playoff games, right? Like it’s dramatic in this postseason. It’s even higher. The Blue Jays ultimately out homerred the Yankees 9 to4. The pitching is so great right now that if you don’t put the ball over the fence in the postseason, it is hard to put three singles together. Right. Like like ultimately Seattle wins a game. Yesterday we’re watching it’s walk homer. Yeah. like we don’t like that about the Yankees, but that’s how Seattle won a game is walk homer. And so you need that, but also within the context of that, there are guys on the Yankees who where power isn’t their full calling card. And Vulpi really stands out to me for this, who just can’t strike out 28% of the time, right? Uh we watched the Tigers get beat this year. The Tigers were a high strikeout team and it killed them at certain points in the postseason. So, I think we’re seeing some of the better teams drive down strikeout numbers while not while understanding you better hit a certain amount of homers. It’s not easy to do because Ryan, I how many times when we’ve done the show together where I go, we know the universe of players. Let’s sit down and see the number of players who strike out less than 20% of the time but also hit home runs regularly. like there’s just not a lot of these guys and they’re hard to get. So the question is can you take a group of players the Austin Welsses’s the Vulpies the McMahon’s who are good athletes who have some stuff in them and say there are times where you must decide what kind of offensive player you you’re going to be. And by the way this is philosophically I’m sure the Yankee a lot of Yankee officials would say to me no like this is casino baseball. take your ace swing three times in every situation. And I think that’s wrong. Yeah. And and I’m not suggesting let’s go back to pepper the ball around, but there are certain situations where you have to decide like it’s a life or death. I have to get the ball in play. And it’s not taking the a swing through three strikes. And the Yankees have to get closer to that. They hit 30 more homers than any team this year. 30 more. The question is, can they hit 40 fewer and be a and still be a big home run team, but do it in a but but have some other stuff as part of their offense. Now, some of that other stuff was speed. Yep. They got some of that this year. So, I I do I I want to be careful not to just say, “Hey, like let’s pepper the ball around like it’s 1971 again because you got to get the ball over the fence. The numbers show it’s clear.” Yeah. You hit a home run in the postseason. You out homer your opponent in the postseason. Brewers advance, right? Three homers. Like we think of the Brewers as the little engine that could, but that’s how they advance. They hit three homers in a game. So, I think you got to be careful a little bit about like, hey, we the strikeouts are going to be part of the litany if you hit the ball over the fence. The question is, can you drop the strikeout number 2%, 3%, and especially in what parts of the game? Are you sacrificing some power because you’re playing the scoreboard? Understanding that on June 12th, you might beat the White Socks playing this way, but what are you going to do in the postseason when sometimes the thing is you must get it in play? It’s a good question and it’s a good thought, right? like a of and if if you’re Brian Cashman, I guess I I would ask, you know, are you valuing the players that you currently have on your roster or as they can do this and you’re evaluating and saying, you know what, I think we can get more out of Opie. We can get more out of Wells, we can get more out of, you know, maybe a Dominguez or are you looking at the market and saying, no, we don’t think we could do this in house and we think we might have to go outside our roster. Do you think that at all takes place where Cashman’s basically saying, “Do we need a bigger overhaul on this roster or do should we really run it back most of the pieces that we had and making those tweaks that you’re talking about?” Yeah, I I think they’re mostly going to run it back. Uh I don’t think the marketplace shapes up for what they want unless there’s something that should be said. I think they really have to prioritize Bellinger, okay, who fits into every little bucket we just talked about. He’s you go down the universe of guys who don’t strike out a lot and could put the ball over the fence. He had 29 homers and struck out 14% of the time, which was a career low for him, but he’s always a guy who limits strikeouts and could hit for power, play across the outfield, play first base, he could run, he could defend, he could hit left on left. To me, he’s a very big priority for them. So, like if you told me the Yankees brought back Bellinger, I think that they probably then do things around the edges because I know the place that Yankee fans want to go, which is shortstop. Y, but that again, there’s no shortstop store on 53rd in Madison. You only could get what’s available and like what’s available that you would feel comfortable and confident doing. And then part of it is you’re always playing a little bit of a bridge game. Do you think George Lumbard is ultimately uh going to be your shortstop? Maybe as the Yankees you should never worry about a prospect down the road, but they probably don’t want to block the position for too long. And internally, not Ryan Samson and Yankee fans, internally they still have faith that Vulpi is going to be something. It is a comparison that I encourage Yankee fans. This is, by the way, doesn’t come from the Yankees. I It’s my comparison. I ran some numbers and I noticed he has a very similar first three years of his career to Dansby. Swanson. Uh Danby B. Swanson, as good a defender as he is, he led the National League in errors one year. In those first three years, he had a sub 300 on base percentage. He struck out way too much. And then at about 27, 28, 29, he had his three best years. I don’t think it’s outrageous that the Yankees think that can happen for Vulpi. More and more I’ve come to believe that Vulpi is probably a second baseman and not a shortstop and that they they would be best off getting to that. Uh I continue to believe that their offensive philosophy hurts him and doesn’t help him and that he needs to either block them out or they need to say we’re not having an overall philosophy for you. your your amateur/minor league career was about being a good hitter, right? And you’re not a good hitter right now. The Yankees need to get to the point where when you look at Anthony Vulpi, if they’re going to move forward with him, and I’m sure they’re going to move forward with them, where you reach a point where you go, he’s a good major league hitter. Who and who cares how many homers come at the end of that, that’s one of the places I would go from 265 homers to 200. Not that I’d rather hit 265, but if I have to go from 265 to 230, one of the places I would say is Anthony Vulp sacrifice 10. I actually think he wouldn’t sacrifice as many as you think if he’s hitting the ball more and hitting it well because the right field at home will play to some of his power. I think as he gets comfortable and realizes what pitchers and what counts he should try to actually Dustin Pedroya a ball, he’ll do that every once in a while and he’ll get to 15 12 to 15. But if the end of that was 255 with a 320 on base percentage, like just above league average numbers where he then gets to use his base running his speed, it’s just a different player. Can he get there? I don’t know. But I that’s what I try to do with this player, especially if I was looking at a marketplace that doesn’t like my my uh my gut is that uh Hassan Kim of the Braves will make himself uh will opt out of his player option. I do think the Braves are going to try to keep him. Would you give him like three years at 45 million to come play shortstop? I think if you watched him play every day, you might not love it either. You know, like that’s one of those things. So, what I would do if I were the Yankees is I would talk to Vulpi about offense, but I would also say it’s 2023 again. You’ve got to come win your job in spring and Cabayro is a fine alternative if you still have a strong lineup to play shortstop. We saw he he will field the ball. He will probably produce major league average offense with speed which is what this lineup feels like it needs though. It does. So like like I’m not afraid of a Cabo and if he’s all the way back Oswaldo Cabrera mixed in there shortstop or somebody you pick up who you like as a quadruple AA or a small player like kind of guy on the marketplace and say to Anthony Vulpi, you have plenty of minor league options. If we’ve got to begin the season with you in the minor leagues next year, we will. You’ve got to come to spring training prepared to be a good major league hitter. But I think that’s as much about Yankee philosophy as about Anthony Vulpi. Yeah. Like like like I if I tell you to tra change religions and you don’t want to change religions, it’s hard to do. And so I’m not sure philosophically if the Yankees are a great place for Vulpi because he feels like he’s caught between all the time and I think he should block them out and say I was a first round draft choice because I hit the ball in a certain way. Can I hit the ball in that way again and have like real benchmarks? Can I strike out 22% of the time 21%? That’s like like major league average like like if he was a major league average across the board 250 320 22% his value rises significantly and I think it would calm him down on defense if he was just major league average offense and wasn’t having to deal with this all the time and ultimately again I think he’s a second baseman. I think his arm is a second base arm. Yeah. I mean look you hit on the big one of the big ones there with Vulpi. question is, will the Yankees actually have an open competition for him in in spring training? Like, does it feel like they would actually do that or are they just going to because I feel like he’s got two big supporters in that organization and those are the two most important people, Brian Cashman and Anthony Vulpi are big believers in Anthony Vulpi. Why would they go in open competition and potentially damage this young players morale and and what his mentality is going into next year? So I more and more don’t believe in that. Okay, which is if if that would damage his morale, he ain’t gonna succeed here anyway. So like I think telling hard truths to players isn’t the bad thing. Like you’re doing the player a favor. You’re not doing something bad. Like you have already expressed your loyalty and love to Anthony Vulpi. I don’t think that that’s changing. I agree with you. I think Aaron Boone and Brian Kman believe in the player, though I have a feeling maybe one of those two believes in it a little less than they used to. Okay. Uh and I don’t even know that you need to openly state that there is a competition as much as like like I think you could subtly say to him every player does an exit interview. Every player is given offseason objectives whether it’s like add muscle, lose weight, work on this, work, you know, pitchers like go to this lab, work on your change up, etc. Anthony, we need you badly to do this for you to be whatever like you should see some writing. Yeah. You know, teams work with agents. Say to his agent, if you saw the September writing on the wall, we were willing to do something else for at least a week. Yep. Now, some of it coincided when Vulpi needed a cortisone shot, but we were comfortable and won plenty of games when he wasn’t playing. And we can do that. And this this this player is not Oswell PZA. This player can play shortstop on a at least a semi-regular basis. And if your guy isn’t ready to do that, will have other options. Is that I don’t think that’s the right act. I don’t think that’s bad. Like like this is the biggest league in the world. It’s competitive. Vulpi won a job in a spring training one time. Go win a job again, man. Like like and if that breaks you, you were going to break. And I think like like Vulpi’s been through a lot in these three years from hero to goat. Yeah. Like let’s remember where Yankee fans were in spring training 2023 where they were all screaming if you don’t put him on the team, you’re not trying. Right. There was a time where that was the mindset of the Yankee fans. and he has gone from that state with their fan base to is he the most disliked guy on the team now? You’re the fan. You tell me. Uh I would say he’s up there. Yeah. Right. So like like he’s been through quite a lot. He’s a local kid so he hears all the noise 12 months a year. Uh I would assume friends and family are not ignoring social media, you know, seen a lot with and they’re probably not making his life easier. No. Uh so he’s been through a lot. It won’t be a lot more to say this is the competitive world, man. You got to go out there and prove you’re still somebody we should believe in at the highest level. You now have 1500 major league plate appearances. You have three full seasons. You you’re 25. You should be growing fully into your prime year man muscle know man knowledge of the whole sport like how are you being pitched? What should be your swing path etc. go win a go go go because like he’s entered this is his off seasonason he’s an arbitration eligible player like you’re starting to cost some money and and and and tick towards free agency we’re going to have to make some decisions about you that’s just the circle of baseball life I’m not going to break out in Disney song here but that’s the circle of baseball life it goes quicker than you think where suddenly it’s like he’s the kid and now he’s arbitration eligible and he’s about to start his fourth year, you only get, you know, a couple more years till free agency. So, it’s it’s uh it’s something I think a lot of Yankees fans are are wondering too with Vulpi is and and you could be quick on this if you want, but like is he even trade like would you even consider a trade? Would team even want to trade for him? Is he such a low value like that it’s not even worth trading something like that? This is like one of those things you should know like there’s a lot of teams that like Anthony Vulpi, but they don’t like him. Nobody’s going to give the Yankees a hundred cents on the dollar for what the Yankees think a hundred cents is on this player. So th this is a reclamation. You need to fix it. Anthony Vulpi needs to fix it and the institution that is the Yankees needs to fix it and come to peace with what is the best version of Anthony Vulpi. I can’t believe even the most ardent Anthony Vulpi fan in the Yankee organization or the most ardent fan on the belief system of pull it into the air uh pull it in the air uh uh philosophy hitting would believe that this is the best version of Anthony V because if it is it isn’t good enough it’s not good enough. It certainly isn’t. Um the other thing I want to talk about is you hit on it before Cody Bellinger. He’s the big question mark it feels like for this Yankees off seasonason. He opted out. He’s going to be a free agent. Uh the market’s going to be there for them because you’ve talked about so many things he does well. Are the Yankees going to be willing to go allin for Cody Bellinger and whatever it takes for that contract to be able to bring him back to the Yankees this year? Yeah. You know, Ryan, I’m I think the Yankees will be big players for him. I’m curious what allin looks like for this player because on a one-on-one year basis, just talking 2025 to me, he outplayed Kyle Tucker and people are talking about $400 million. If you look at a three-year window, which is often how these things are, he’s not. He probably looks a lot more like Brandon NMO going into free agency. If you go back not far, arguably the bestr run organization in the sport, the Dodgers non-tendered this player. So like this is all part of the swirl of is he $140 million player, is he a $240 million player, is he a three? Like like I don’t know what he is. The player who played this year is one of the most valuable players in the sport. Yeah. for the Yankees. He’s particularly valuable again because they begin another off season without a first baseman or a center fielder. By the way, you know who that’s true about also? Maybe the Mets. I knew you were going to say that, right? If Ponzo leaves, they don’t have they don’t have a center fielder. They might not have a first baseman. Uh you could say it about the Phillies, right? They don’t have a center field. They don’t have an outfielder to some degree, right? And if they want to put Bryce Harper back in the outfield, they could put him at first. Though I assume they would just leave Bryce at first and leave Cody in the outfield. They did it. Or a guy who played who’s a five tool player who succeeded in the clutch in New York, on the field, on the bases, in in the batters box, all 30 teams because they’re unicorns. Like I said, there’s not that many of these players walking the earth. So So the question is, what is the number? I still believe and I don’t know if we want to kind of like get into some philosophical House Steinbrer thing that House Steinber very badly believes that for him to make money on an annual basis not what the value of the franchise is he has to drive the payroll under $300 million right to do that would mean cutting say 20-ish million right which if some of their young players play well is probably conceivable with them still being a very good team and they’re getting money off the books this year too with Aaron Hicks And um but lameu stays on the books. Mayu stays on the books. Both Aaron Hicks contract and the Marcus Strowman contract come off, right? But like again like Vulpi’s arbitration eligible for the first time like there’s there’s some natural razors coming. Oh look, we’re not going to take a tin cup out. Uh my suspicion is the Yankees will end up with a $300 million payroll again. My suspicion is this is the kind of player the Yankees push hard to try to retain. My sense was Cody Bellinger liked being here. There is some legacy. He knows his father played here, they’re comfortable here, etc. But there’s going to be competition for him. I think one of the things the Yankees could look at and say, “Okay, after 26, Lame is off the books. After 27, Stanton’s off the books. After 28, Cole and Rhdon are off the books.” So, there is some evergreen place to go to do a extended contract for Bellinger. And if you believe in Bellinger, the athlete, the seriousness of the player, his total skills, I think you they’re all bad bets, Ryan. Yeah. Once you have a player in his 30s, the that we have a a history of the game to suggest this isn’t where you want it. But if you were starting to bet on players, he’s a little bit like to me the hitting Max Freed in that he’s such a good athlete and so good at everything that he retains some value going into it. And in his case, his value is probably greater at Yankee Stadium with the short porch than it is almost any place else. That being said, it’s a Scott Boris client. It’s a guy who’s had a fight for money these last few years. He opted into a contract because he was worried about what his marketplace would be. So my suspicion is whoever gives him the most money will get the player. Really? Yeah. I mean, if it’s five million here or that, but like there’s not going to be some year like, hey, you could give him six, somebody else is giving him eight. You could give him 175, someone else is giving him 230. That’s not happening. Like to me, uh, this player will probably go where the most money is. I think I would really keep an eye on the Phillies. The owner of the team is a very motivated buyer. If I’m a Yankee fan, I am rooting like heck that the Phillies resign Kyle Schwarber so that even that owner says, “How many of these guys can we have because they have a lot of already players in their 30s signed to long-term contracts.” So that that that would be a big deal. And again, he’s going to get a lot of money for a lot of years. I would suspect the Yankees understanding his value to the team and that they can cut payroll in other places uh not with just what’s leaving walking out the door. Luke Weaver, Devin Williams, to your point, Strowman’s off the books. Hicks is off the books finally for them on that seven-year contract. They there are other things they could do. They could not qualify Gisham. Correct. Uh they could see if they could trade Chisum. like there are other places for a player this valuable to see if you could get him back on the books. And then there becomes the question if you don’t get a Bellinger and he does sign somewhere else and let’s say Kyle Tucker is still out there. I say no shot. No shot. Yeah, I say no shot because I think the reason the Yankees wouldn’t keep Bellinger is a financial one and I don’t see them doubling it to do Tucker. And I wouldn’t Hey, look, Kyle Tucker is a terrific player, but I I have watched a ton of big series usually was Houston and New and the Yankees playing uh where I’ve seen Kyle Tucker play and I’ve left that series talking about Jose Altuve and Carlos Korea and George Springer and Jeremy Pñena and your Don Alvarez and Garrick Paul and Justin Verlander. I don’t ever remember talking about Kyle Tucker. You could have convinced me he didn’t play in the series. So I I just watched a high impact season from Cody Bellinger. Not just statistically, but I felt his presence in games. Maybe if I watched 162 games of Kyle Tucker, I would feel that from a distance. Kyle Tucker feels like a great supporting actor who’s just about to be paid like a lead actor. And I personally wouldn’t do that if I were any team. Uh and I can’t see the Yankees doubling or more what they’re willing to pay Cody Bellinger to bring in. Tucker. And by the way, I don’t think Tucker wants to play in this kind of market because he’d probably have to hear crap like that from me. It’s certainly uh it’s interesting you say that they wouldn’t do that. I mean I it he’s uh like you said, you just watch you just watch Kyle Tucker play in the postseason. I realize it’s a very small atmosphere. Who’s running to that? Like I’m am I missing a like he’s really And he had a bad year. He’s really No, he had a good year for most people. for most people, but like but for him he had a year statistically a lot like Bellinger. Yeah. Like but I watch Bell I know Bellinger did it for the Dodgers. I know Bellinger did it for the Cubs. And I know Bellinger did it for the Yankees. I know he’s not like like to me I’m emphasizing Bellinger and if I don’t get him I have to figure something else out. Uh but I would emphasize Bellinger unless Bellinger doesn’t want like secretly hated it here. I would try to make it very hard for Bellinger to leave. Well, it’s interesting you say that. So, if they don’t get a Bellinger now, like let’s say they do get Bellinger in this in this scenario, how does the rest of the outfield play out? We’ve heard Spencer Jones, could he potentially make his way to the major league roster? Jason Dominguez is still there. Uh how does how do the Yankees fill out the rest of this outfield? Because Trent Gisham, in all likelihood, it sounds like he’s not going to be back this off season. Uh unless I’m wrong and the Yankees do tender my contract. How do you see that playing out? Right. So, just term-wise, they don’t tender him a contract. They would have to give him the qualifying offer. Tender is somebody under their control. So, the question is, do they offer him the qualifying offer? And even if they do, does he accept it? Then he’s a signed player for like $22 million next year. Uh, and of course, they have to make that decision before they know what’s going on with Bellinger. So, like the I if they don’t offer him the qualifying offer, uh, he’s a free agent, they could bring him back as a free agent. like they could long play him, say, “Okay, now we didn’t do this. Would you come back and play for with us for three years at 39 or 42, whatever it is, like I don’t know that I would get in the Trent Gisham business for that long.” Uh, I I So, one of the reasons I think Bellinger has value to the Yankees, beyond the obvious, is you could begin next year and say if Spencer Jones earns his way onto the team, Bellinger could play more at first base. Yep. Like Bellinger’s flexibility between the outfield and first base where he can play both positions at a high level change it like like it just gives you the ability to be like oh Jones is ready. He’ll play a lot of center field and that and Cody could play left as well really well at high level too or right like like the it’s a great chess piece to have only extending his value to keep him because it allows you to potentially save money someplace else like more comfortably play Dominguez, more comfortably play Jones, more comfortably break in somebody who’s not making as much money. So I think he has ulterior value in that way. So yeah, I I think that uh next season we’ll open with with if they bring them back where let’s go north with our 26 best 13 best position players. Who are those? You know, how does it fit together? Uh because again, remember if Jones is part of it, you’re very left-handed again, but it’s just replacing Gisham who’s left-handed. Uh I do think in the off seasonason they have to come up with a right-hand hitter. Um, now is that Rosario? Uh, like do Rosario and Cababalliero cover you in a lot of areas? Does Oswell Cabrera coming back? Like one of the things early this season and it was just not a long runway is he hit better right-handed than he had in the past. So like if you had Rosario, Calierro, Cabrera, none of whom’s really a power guy, but like they’re good chess pieces who could move around. Is that enough? because Cabbayro could probably move around the outfield as long as his legs okay and I watched him in the he was he was part of the team in the postseason. He was doing all the pregame work. He was moving around fine and I would think an off season would make that even better. Uh so is it that is it Cabayro and Cabrera and then you go and get a right-hand hitter? Is that Rob Reed? Is it Austin Hayes? Is it that kind of player? It would be great if they could find somebody who can play the outfield who hits right-handed and also first base. Again, you could sit down. There’s not a lot of those floating around. And that’s that’s that’s part of the issue because that would be the perfect chess piece also for the Yankees is a guy who you think could hit lefty pitching well, who can play the outfield first base. I know it was a guy who kills lefty pitching for multiple years, so I know it’s not a freak is Miguel Anduhar, but he is a bad fielder everywhere and you probably don’t want to go back to it, but like do you know who had the second best batting average in the major leagues this year for guys with 300 plate appearances after Aaron Judge? It’s Miguel Anderson. That’s crazy. Like he hit well over 300 this year and he’s a good he turned himself he is a good major league hitter especially against lefty pitching and he’s not a giveaway against righty pitching. It’s just he never got to the point where he was even just slightly below average someplace third base, first base, corner outfield. So for a guy who doesn’t hit for power, it’s a little he’s going to play baseball for a long time because he has a real skill set. Uh but I I I would considering Yankee left field, you want to bring in somebody who can like if you put him there, it’s like I’ll throw out a name. He just had a terrible year. He might be done, but I always like Lane Thomas. Yeah. but he just had a terrible year. I don’t like is he a minor league contract guy somebody could sign if he’s doing that? Does he want to do with the Yankees where he doesn’t might not get a lot of playing time? I don’t know. But but they’re going to have to bring in a right-hand hitting outfielder. Well, you you bring up a good point and you also I I talk you talk about a lot pulling levers in certain situations. So, that’s the situation if they bring back Bellinger, they bring back a right-handed bat for the outfield. You would hope maybe they if in the in the dream scenario they could play first as well, but it’s a right-handed corner outfield bat that can give them some some depth off the bench when they face a tough lefty. So So let’s pull Can I throw one thing in? And it’s kind of like the bigger thing which is I feel like between what they did in the off season where like they get a guy like Fernando Cruz who has more than a couple of years and at the trade deadline David Bednar McMahon Dval Cabayro they they are a little better set up going into the off season again if if I did nothing else but put Bellinger back on the team I think you could line up that team and play Mhm. especially with that rotation that you’re excited for potential where Cole might go a full year Schlitler, you know, maybe get Clark Schmidt back in the second half of the season, maybe get the better version of Hillback. We never really saw that because maybe he got rushed or he wasn’t fully whatever. So, there is that. Now, I don’t think the Yankees are going to stop there. They really want to restock the bullpen a little bit more. But simply getting Bellinger back and the fact that they didn’t trade the best of their farm system and the fact that they added some players especially in the bullpen who are part of like like you start a bullpen next year. Bednar Cruz Deval Hill. Yep. It’s not perfect, but it’s it’s fine. Now, can you find another reliever or two in the marketplace? like whether you’re, you know, you’re buying a guy. It would be great if they could find a second lefty. I think they need to add a starting pitcher just to feel comfort because like on one hand you could look at the rotation and say there is an upside that might not get to where the Dodgers are now but like the upside of a fullon Cole a full-on Schlitler a full-on Rdon and a full-on Freed and potentially Hill or Schmidt. Like that’s pretty good if they get like the 90th percentile outcome from that group. And I haven’t mentioned Will Warren who had a nice little rookie season and is your depth again. Wouldn’t call it little. I mean, he put pitched all year for you, right? Like he had a valuable he his value outstripped his numbers. Like and if he’s your depth back at TripleA, it’s not the worst thing that ever happened. And they have some pitching prospects out because I always point out it’s not what the Yankees are hyping. If you go ask about Carlos Lrange, if you go ask about Elma Cruz Rodriguez or Rodriguez Cruz, I always get it back. Uh if you go ask about uh Bryce Cunningham, if you ask about Ben Hess, you you are told the Yankees have a unit close to the major leagues. Is it Tong Sprro Mlan? I don’t know. But those guys those guys were not close enough to give them depth this year. I expect no fewer than two of those guys to pitch in the major leagues at some point next year. So the Yankees have a nice group of starting pitching. And having said that, I would protect myself with one more. It would be great if that was a swing guy. Like what’s the best version of Ryan Yarbor? Is it Ryan Yarbor? Like kind of guy where it’s like you bring him back. You’d like it to be a little better than that. But like you also might under the best circumstances that guy might never start. Like if everything hit, that guy would never start because the one thing that would be hard to do like you could put Warren back at TripleA. It would be hard to put a fullon, if you really believe what you just saw in Schlitler, it would be hard to put him back at TripleA. Like he feels like you’ve got to run with him because he was so good and see if it’s all real or not. Uh but you know, like maybe you have some sophomore thing for Warren or Schlitler. Maybe, you know, like I would keep in mind Shane Bieber had Tommy John surgery in April of 2024 and didn’t come back till August of 2025. Maybe Cole will be back in April or May, or maybe he won’t, right? They feel Schmidt will be in play the second half of the season. Maybe he won’t. Uh maybe Hills first half of 2024 was as good as it’s ever getting. Rhdon and Freed were really heavily used starters who never had an injur injuryless stint. Like if you and I were gamblers, would we bet at least one or the other would be on the IIL at some point next year after both going up over 200 innings postseason included this year. So I would protect myself a little more with one more starter and yet that’s a tough one because it’s going to be hard to sell a starter on come here you might never start. Yeah, it’s a tough sell but you get to be a part of a rotation where you could say look I mean we’re going for it all. you have a chance at a championship here unlike a lot of the other major league clubs which doesn’t feel like they’re all in like the the Yankees feel like they under the best circumstances they have a championship rotation available to them if they get to close to let’s say over 80 percentile outcome and have some depth where to absor in a way you know Ryan they work a little bit of a baseball miracle this year I spent an entire season saying this would be the problem. They’re going to run out of starting pitching because that group of young starters wasn’t close enough. And Schlitler and Warren provided an answer nobody could have seen coming. Nobody on March 27th would have thought Will Warren’s going to lead the major leagues in starts. Starts he and no one thought that Max Freed and Carlos Rodon were going to stay healthy. 200 inning guys. And nobody saw Cam Schlitler coming as the guy you wanted the ball in his hand in October. So they had some real positive physical outcome that they should not assume next year. But if they get even good health from the rotation and good return dates, where do you sign up for? June 1st for coal as a full coal and August 15th for a full schmidt like as nice little plugins along the way. Yeah, then you don’t need anything. But I would guard myself. I would get one. I would get one more and I would be really aggressive on the minor league free agent. Like what’s the best version of Allan Winens that’s better than that? like can I spend some money in that marketplace and get somebody to triple AAA who’s a veteran, give them a June 1st opt out and say the June 1st opt out makes sense because that’s maybe when we get Cole back. You might get a lot of starts between then and June 1st or you might pitch the whole year. Well, look and also don’t let’s not forget I mean like you said Cole was but they they didn’t have him at all this past season because that was such a big injury. So we can’t say that it wasn’t total, you know, all luck and health for them. I mean, they lost their best pitcher and but now they’re going to get him back, but you like you said, you don’t know what version you’re going to get to start. I do want to go back to the lineup real quick. So, the the levers, right? Like you always say, the Yankees always have option A, option B. They plan these things out. Let’s say Cody Bellinger doesn’t resign with the Yankees. Um, could they potentially, and I don’t know, you would know this more than me, let’s say they don’t believe in Dominguez long term, and they’re like, you know what, we’re seeing he’s not really a good fielder. We think the bat’s there, but we just don’t know if we can trust him in the outfield, and we really have to go for it this year. Or they maybe say, Spencer Jones, this is the best you’re going to see from him. He’s not going to be a real major leager. Could they potentially trade for a right-handed outfield bat to be that power for them a little bit more? It’s a name I’m going to throw out here. You’re probably going to tell me I’m crazy. Taylor Ward from the Angels. Guy hits a ton of homers, right-handed bat, slug. Um, could that be potential where the Yankees, you know, weigh an option in saying, “We didn’t get Bellinger, but we can go get a Taylor Ward as a rental who gives us power from the right-handed side of the plate and could help solidify that left field for us hopefully.” Yeah. I think Taylor Ward would be a Ryan Samson nightmare if he was here because that’s 30% strikeouts. Yeah. Uh, which again good pitching is what? Uh, like like I think that it’s one of the reasons I would think seriously about trading Spencer Jones, which is like you better be very very confident that he can be Adam done with defense, which maybe he could. That’s a pretty high outcome. Yeah. But to me, he feeds into your like the best version of him is going to strike out probably 30% of the time, right? That’s the best version of him. And the question is, do you want more of that in your lineup? If the exchange is 40 home runs and pretty good athleticism, bases, defense, sure. Sure. You know, like you’ll try to work around it. the the right-hand hitting high-end outfielder who’s more unicorny like you’re looking for. It’s hard to find, man, because trust me, I keep looking for that guy. It would not be to me, Taylor Ward is a three and a half outfielder, not a one to three for for a first division team. Okay. For the Angels, he’s fine, right? But I have a feeling if he’s on your team, you’re like, “This guy’s kind of a glorified third third to three and a half outfielder would be my my suspicion because of strikeouts, the fact that he’s not great on defense. you’re you he feels like the kind of guy you’re always trying to do better than I would say that if Jason Dominguez had signed for $2.1 million as a M as as a amateur and never been given a nickname where you think he could arc would be fine because I think there is a 20 to 25 homer 25 to 35 steel 30 to 40 double player in him, which is, by the way, nicely above average. Like, if I told you he was going to be like an offensive version of like Brandon NMO, you go, “Wow, what a great internal.” What if I called him the Martian? Oh, that wouldn’t be good enough. So, like I feel like he’s damned that they gave him their whole minor league finances one year and he got called the Martian and he was getting compared to Mickey Mantel. He’s not going to be him. I thought he handled not playing well. I was, you know, I’m at every game. Ryan, he hooked himself on to Ahmad Rosario, who is a worker, and he was out with Ahmad Rosario early every day working when he wasn’t playing. That would be very encouraging. I left with Yankee people telling me the plan is for him to go play winter ball in the Dominican and take a lot of reps in left and center. I for his athleticism and what I think is a pretty good work ethic, there seems no reason why he should not be a major league average outfielder. Now, maybe there’s just some people who are always going to read balls poorly and not read balls off the wall well and not have that great instinct what base to throw to. The Yankees have claimed one of the problems with him is he just hasn’t had a lot of reps. Well, he should have been in winter ball last off season. He certainly should be in winter ball this and I mean play a lot. Yeah, you’re young. You’re not going to show up on March on February, whatever tired. You’ll take some weeks off. You’ll be fine. He should go and get a lot of reps in the outfield. And because if he if he could be major league average, I do think I think he has a good eye. Like this is not a guy who strikes out from the left side because So him and Ryan McMahon have something in common. Both of them could read a ball. Yeah. Like McMahon’s problem is he swings at strikes and doesn’t hit them. I actually think Dominguez hits the ball, hits it relatively hard, and that there is a 20 plus homer guy in him. We saw there is a 20 plus steel guy in him. He walked off the bench on that last day of the season without playing a lot and smoked a double against Toronto. There is a 750 OPS 2020 player there for a couple of for a million dollars. When you’re trying to shove other guys who make a lot of money, that’s really valuable. If he’s just major league average in left field, major league average, catch all the ones you should catch. Play the ball clean off the wall. Know what base to throw. Know what base to throw to. Can you That is now a valuable player. Uh and with a little chance to be better than that because he’s so athletic because he’s very athletic and there’s real power and and twitch in what he does. So, I’m not quick to give up on him. I He is not going to be the Martian, but he could be a very good major league player who plays left field and hits sixth every day. And you’re like, he might have to give up switch hitting. I’m not sure that the right side ever plays for him again. Is this time? I would make sure he goes to winter ball and you tell his winter ball manager, they start a lefty, he’s playing. Yeah. He’s got to get reps there. And so, and I think they have some advantage. I think he’s going to play for the team uh that Luis Rojas used to run, the Yankee third base coach. So, like I’m sure Luis can say lots of innings in left, lots of innings in center. They start a lefty. You you play this guy. Uh so, I wouldn’t give up on him. Okay. I I I think there’s an above average player there. Forget that he was ever called the Marshall. Okay. It’s going to be hard for me to forget, but I’m going to try and try and think about that. Uh, so I do want to ask you before we finish up. Can you, this is a just a little exercise. Can you give me three players, not named Trent Gishams, Luke Weavers of the world, the guys, T Williams, the guys who are already free agents, but can you give me three players you think on this Yankees roster that could potentially not be on this roster next year that maybe work work their way into a trade? They could, you know, whatever it could be. So, I suspect Jazz Chisum will be back, but I would I think you got to test the marketplace because I think I think the chances of the Yankees signing him long term, if not zero or close to zero, and if they’re close to zero and he’s entering his walk year, like like the Tigers uh uh president of baseball operations, Scott Harris, and their manager, AJ Hinch, listen or watch the podcast with Joel Sherman and John Haymon. AJ Hinch is on with us. They had their end of year press conference as we speak yesterday on Monday and of course they were asked are you trading TK Scubble because he’s entering his free agent year. If you’re asking when a guy’s entering his free agent year who’s just won back who’s about to win back Sai Youngs because you don’t think you could sign him. If you’re thinking about trading Tubble you could certainly think about trading Jazz Chisum. Okay. And uh you know like like his value is never higher. It’s a 30-30 season, but the value is low because it’s only one year, right? Like like it isn’t like like like we’ve seen guys who have one year to free agency, their value goes way down and the word’s out on him a little bit, right? Like about like like what is like is he playing to the scoreboard? Is he playing Jazz Chisum fantasy camp? Like what what’s going on as far as what’s important to him? That being said, it’s hard to replace 3030 when he’s fully engaged. He’s a very good second baseman. So like my suspicion is he’ll be back. Okay. because the Yankees won’t get the match for it. But Brian Cashman might be under orders. Hey, I’ll resign Cody Bellinger, but we have to get to 275. And I’m sitting with the contracts. If we don’t trade this guy, we ain’t getting to 275 or 280 or whatever the number that Hal’s going to want. And so I I think he’s in play. Would they listen? I think they’ll listen on Spencer Jones and Dominguez. Uh it’s like that. Uh my suspicion is they have a bunch of bullpen guys who they’re going to non-tender uh come December. Mark Lighter Jr., Ian Hamilton, Scott Afro. So I assume before you non-tender them, you offer them around the league one more time. Is there somebody whose scouts were at AAA who are like, you know, the Yankees really botched Ian Hamilton. I think if he threw his fast ball more, we could do something for a million dollars here. We should trade. So, so I realize how small penny that is, but like I think they’ll go around the league one more time and say anybody like these guys uh before we uh potentially non-tender them. So, I think there’s that. Uh, I I think there was probably a time in mid-season if you made a good offer for Ben Rice, you you know, I think that that’s a much harder sell now that he showed what he could do and the fact that he might be a middle-of the order line uh a middle of the lineup uh guy for a while, I’m not sure that that it’s front burner. So to me, if you said I I and the one other one I would think is in play, but again, I think you’re selling him potentially low is Luis Heel. And I only say that because he doesn’t have any options. And we were talking about what the Yankee upside rotation is. And unless you feel that he’ll could go to the bullpen and help you, he becomes a guy who’s like square in a round hole like like like does he do it? I don’t want to walk away from that. The upside of him last year in 2024 was a guy probably good enough to make the All-Star team. Yeah. And win rookie of the year. We we’ve seen that he has started postseason games for them in consecutive years. Do the Yankees believe the first half of LA of 2024 was kind of as good as it’s ever going to get. He’s never going to get close to that again. But that could be the marketplace. Also, the the thing you always have to watch and I kind of tell fans all the time is service time really matters. Options really matter. and the fact that he’ll becomes a nonmovable piece once the season begins unless you’re willing to lose him for nothing. He becomes an easier trade piece in the off season because you say, “Okay, let’s trade him now. will definitely sign a starting pitcher, but we’ll have removed the guy without options who hems us in from April through September if he doesn’t pitch well because like Luis Heel gets off poorly next year. The first three starts are bad. It isn’t like you say, well, we’ll call up Will Warren from the miners or whatever or that’s the place we’ll plug Cole into because you can’t send Hill to the minor leagues, right? So part of one of the things the Yankees before the sport caught on and so this was a place the Yankees were crafty like I’m talking like 5 10 15 years ago is a lot of their July trades were guys who they were going to have to put on the 40man roster. Now they weren’t the first to think of it but like not every team did it. And so they would pick the the the team in the sport who they’re like, “This guy doesn’t can’t fit on our 40man roster, but you’re not very good. You fit on your 40man roster, so we’re going to trade Jake Cave for Luis Heel.” Yeah. Because Jake Cave isn’t a 40man roster guy for us, but he is for you. Minnesota Twins or somebody like that, you know, who they’ve traded over the years. And so I think you always have to think about the flexibility of your team for a full season. And I’m not sure that Luis Heel works perfectly in that unless you think all he needs is an off season to kind of get fully healthy. Yeah. And he’s going to show up as the guy who was 2024 first half Luis Hill. If so, I mean you have they’ll have like five number one or two starters going round. That’s the Yankee strength as we project forward is lefty hitting Aaron Judge and the starting rotation and yet there’s a house of cards quality to that starting rotation also. It could be almost what the Dodgers are now or it can Yeah. So I think it will be interesting. That’s certainly interesting and a name that definitely pay attention to as the offseason just just because he’s out of options. It’s not about but but he also just didn’t have a very he didn’t have a healthy or or pitch near nearly as well. His fast was down I think a little bit. So I just don’t think they’ll get enough like like I would suspect they trade none of these guys. Like I think Jazz Chisum will be on the team next year. I think Luis Hill will be on the team next year. I think Spencer Jones will be in their minor league system. But if you told me at the GM meetings in about two and a half weeks or at the winter meetings at the beginning of December, hey, there’s starting to be a lot of smoke and fire around Jazz or smoke and fire around Luis Heel or smoke and fire around Spencer Jones. I would understand why on based on how the Yankees are currently constructed to go into next season. Yeah, it’s uh it and and and Jo, I’m sorry to cut you off, Ryan. And of course, Jones becomes easier to trade if you resign Bellinger. Correct. And that’s that’s also like again part of that lever what the how they’re going to to put this this whole thing andor andor Gisham accepts the qualifying offer. Will you think they’re going to offer him the qualifying offer? I think it’s very much a 50-50 thing. I wrote this in the post is I think one of the things and I do think the Yankees have a very good baseball operations department and I’m sure they’re doing this. The qualifying offer is 20 about $22 million. If he says yes to it, he’s assigned player for one year at $22 million. That’s it. Right? If he says no, he’s a free agent and the Yankees get a like about a fourth round draft choice in 2026, in July of 2026. The one thing I would make sure before giving him the qualifying offer is I don’t want to have him and Bellinger on the team, but I have to make a decision on him before I know about Bellinger. I would make sure I would call every team and say if we have this player at 22 million, can we trade him to you? And the example I used in the paper and I’m not reporting that this is I’m using this as an example of something. The Royals are desperately trying to add offense around Bobby Wit Jr. desperate to do it. Would they trade Carlos Estz their closer who’s making $13 million and thinking of it as they’re spending $9 million on Trent Gisham? The Yankees are saving 9 million the other way if they do this plus adding another guy to pitch late with Bedar Cruz. Like that’s almost a perfect trade for the Yankees if they got Bellinger back, right? Because you would say, “Wow, like you’d really like that bullpen all of a sudden.” It would like move up a notch where you say it’s Bednar could close games, Dval could close games, Estz could close games. Certainly those three plus Cruz plus Hill. Now you’re at five that you’re pretty comfortable for the last nine outs of the game. Now you go out and make another like see if you can find that lefty in the free agent market or in the trade market, a second lefty you like kind of thing, and you suddenly have a good bullpen again. So, like I use that as an example that the Yankees right now have to be investigating where they could trade a $22 million Trent Gisham. Like, can we take on this player who makes 10 or this player who makes 15 or if we ate five of it, could we get access to this player? If we ate eight of it, can we get access because for us that player is worth 8 million plus his salary. So, I think one of the things that I’m sure they’re doing because they’re good at their job is that which is if we qualify this player, can we trade him in the offseason because we if if we’ll keep him if Bellinger doesn’t come back because he’s the starting center fielder then and hope he’s that 2025 wasn’t a mirage and he could hit pop another 30 homers and lead off and all that stuff. But I don’t think you want Bellinger and him. So, I think you have to know that you can if Bellinger comes back, is he a tradable player? If he is, I think you qualify him. Yeah. And I also think So, you have to do two things at once. You have to do two things at once. And also at the same time, if you brought both of them back, you would be putting Dominguez in a tough spot. the guy that you would hope that correct, you know, correct can start every day for like like I think that Dominguez off of this season which wasn’t great but wasn’t awful now deserves a chance to get the first 300 plate appearances of next season to say like what happened at Winterball, who are you? Yeah. To begin to kind of get that I think he I think he showed enough to earn that. Like again, you just got to forget he was ever the Martian. Uh, so as we wrap up here, Joel, it feels like a year ago we were in such a different place because it was all about how are the Yankees going to handle can they resign Juan Sto? Are they going to pivot off Juan Sto? Ended up he went to the Mets. They pivoted brilliantly I would say off off the Janoto uh you know leaving the team. Now we’re in the space where the Yankees go into it feels like a little bit of a quieter off season. It’s all going to be what happens with Cody Bellinger. That’s the surrounding piece and then a lot of the moves will go off of that. But it wouldn’t be surprised me if they were a little more aggressive before the Bellinger stuff happens for you and you’re going into this time. The World Series hasn’t happened yet. What is this like for this period here as you’re covering baseball and we’re still before the GM meetings and the the World Series isn’t finished yet. What’s this like for you in this time with all the information that could be coming in and out of you in and out? Yeah. So, you know, lots of texts, lots of uh phone calls. You know, you’re like we’re in an interesting period. There are going to be 10 managerial changes minimum this off season. Uh two of them have already happened. John Kelly staying in retired, but uh Skip Schumacher Skip Schumacher is uh back. Look, the Yankees haven’t officially announced that Aaron Boon’s back. Uh I’m sure they’re going to next week. Brian Cashman, I think, is going to talk to uh you know, do a public. Would that be worth an announcement even though he’s under under contract? I think that these are the Yankees. Like they used to have to announce Joe Tori is coming back every year and he won four World Series. So these being the Yankees, I think that they’ll announce the obvious that he’s back, uh, etc. Um, I think Brian will probably give up very few of the cards in his hands when he does it. But like, you know, you’re calling. My job is to try to figure out what the cards in his hands are of how he’s likely to play it. Um, it’s an interesting time of year. There’s uh the backdrop of the collective bargaining agreement ending uh December of 2026 and the fear of a long lockout and it impacting the the 2027 season is on a lot of people’s minds. Is this a year you really go for it because you have no idea? Is it a year you don’t like? Like again, one of the reasons I think that Hal is going to begin to bring down the payroll is he believes very strongly that there’ll either be a salary cap or there’ll be even more punitive taxes. Wow. Right. Like like it feels almost impossible that there won’t be one or the other. And so if you’re not beginning the process of bringing down your payroll, it’s going to be very hard to get to whatever salary cap numbers. Now, I’m sure there’s going to be grandfathering for a certain tier. Like, how would the Dodgers get to say if the number were like the most you could have is 250 million? The Dodgers are 150 million over that right now. Like, you have to have a grand, you know, a grandfathering period to allow teams to get down to a certain number. But I think that that part of like that is weighing on everybody’s thought process. Every executive I talk to now says, “We’re trying to figure out what it means.” And um who wins the World who gets the World Series? Like if the Brewers get to the World Series, like will that make more teams say, “Hey, we need to emphasize ball and play defense.” If the Blue Jays get there, will that move people to say ball and play defense? If the Dodgers get there, will that have everyone screaming, “We need a salary cap otherwise.” So there’s some stuff that’s going to be flowing over the next weeks and months. Uh, I think that the Yankees really are Cody Bellinger resigning away from being in a very comfortable position to make decisions where they’re not like if Cody Bellinger doesn’t come back, they have to fix the team in a lot of different ways. If Cody Bellinger comes back, they could do they could be opportunistic and fix at the margins. That is two different places. And if you think Scott Boris doesn’t know that, then you haven’t paid attention to baseball for the last three plus decades. So he understands what he’ll understand what this player means in not just strict value, but in the ability to operate in a level of he could play first, he could play the outfield. Having him allows us now to we could literally line up today and have a team. Yeah. It’s not the team we’re going to have. we still want to do better, but we could line up and feel like we have a very good baseball team moving forward. It’s a really important chip for them. Fascinating. It’s really is fascinating. Uh Joel Sherman, you’re two. We’re done here uh with Pinstripe Post. I can’t thank you enough for coming on here and doing this with us every single time. Uh your your information and insight’s awesome. A lot of fans appreciate it. Uh this is going to be again something that fans they’re going to be talking about all offseason. What do the Yankees do? Do they bring back Bellinger? what’s their what’s their pivot around that? What are the margin moves they can make? Um, but also at the same time, we appreciate you always coming on here and sharing all that knowledge. I I appreciate that. We’ve really like it is everyone knows the media market who cares to know is a tough landscape now for breaking through uh and making some dent and trying where your voice or your written word has some imprint and uh you’re always kind enough to tell me numbers and stuff and I know our numbers are going up and so I can’t you thank me I thank them for watching because it doesn’t make any sense to put your butt in the chair unless people do that. So, uh, Ryan and I are so appreciative of everyone doing it. If you like what we do, tell a friend to join us on the on the rocket ship. Yeah. Wherever we’re going. Well said. That’s Joel Sherman. Uh, we’ll talk to you soon, I’m sure. Uh, as again, we’ll see what Brian Cashman announced next week as they uh bring back Aaron Boone and where they go from there. But as always, man, we’ll we’ll catch you next time. Thanks, Ryan.

On today’s episode of Pinstripe Post, Joel Sherman and Ryan Sampson discuss how important it is for the Yankees to re-sign Cody Bellinger this offseason, where the Yankees could make improvements in the lineup and what are some players that could be on the move this offseason that are currently on the roster?

Timecodes**
00:00 Intro
2:00 How will Yankees evaluate this season?
8:05 Anthony Volpe’s future with the Yankees
20:25 Cody Bellinger Is The Priority
25:50 Kyle Tucker interest
28:05 Spencer Jones & Jasson Dominguez future
34:00 Starting Rotation Potential
40:20 Trade Market for a Bat
47:21 Yankees that could be moved
54:50 Trent Grisham’s future

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