Post Winter Meetings State of the Yanks

The Yanks are a little undressed. Yes, they really improved their offense by acquiring Stanton, but they've also lost players and personnel that they have yet to replace.  Furthermore they have yet to address pitching whether through trade or re-signing CC.

Let's look at the player side first.  They traded their starting 2B and 3B and though they have prospects that could fit both positions, they are unlikely to go into the season without training wheels or temp starters for those spots.  They also haven't upgraded backup catcher which is a BIG NEED.

Beyond that, on the personnel side, they're filling out the big league coaching staff, but have lost some minor league coaches migration or in the cases of Reggie Willits and Carlon Mendoza, promotion to the big leagues.  So they have to be replaces as we as Josh Paul and their AAA manager.  They also need to replace Kevin Reese in the NYC pro scouting deptartment, and still need another brain or two in the minor league player development department.

So there's a lot of vetting, hiring, scouting, trading and signing yet to be done. But we got Stanton and are still way ahead of the game.