Let me start out my saying that this article (which is the first in a set of three) isn’t meant to be a pessimistic look at the Yankees as they are currently assembled for next season. Instead, it is being used to make fans aware that there are a lot more question marks than definitive exclamation points regarding the makeup of the 2017 Yankees.
Let’s begin with coaching staff. Manager Joe Girardi cannot continue to gameplan for the twists and turns of each and every contest via his enormous binder. I get that he is a student of the game, but what happened to coaching on the fly, allowing the game to dictate prevalent moves that can’t always be strategically planned for days in advance.