Generations

The core four of the Yankees is OLD. That's something we just have to recognize. Though Jeter, Posada, Pettitte and Mo just combined to help win their fifth championship as a homegrown unit, who knows how much longer they can stay so productive. ARod, too, is getting up there. Now, ARod is younger than Jeter and since they can both still run, it looks like they were age better than Giambi or Matsui, who couldn't still run. Believe it or not, it's predictor.

In any event, while the Yanks have largely rebuilt their farm, the best position players from that farm are at least a year away from starting to appear. That's why it was a good idea last year to add Mark Teixeira and Nick Swisher, and why it was a good idea this year to add Curtis Granderson. These players are all very good and in their primes and will help bridge the gap from the Jeter generation to a time when the farm is ready to produce big time positional talent again.

Now, it is because of this lag, between the Mo/Andy/Po/Jeter group to the next homegrowns that it would be wise for the Yanks to add any outstanding players on the right side of 30 who fit their immediate and long term needs. Such moves take pressure off the farm, and keep the Yankee type prospects in the Yankee system and not in someone else's. So what's the point? The Yanks should sign Matt Holliday for the hole in left, and, if he's as good as they have always thought, add Aroldis Chapman to the farm. We want to keep winning, right?