“The Expendables” featured a bunch of recognizable faces beyond their prime, playing characters from their heyday.
It also was a 2010 movie starring Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke and Dolph Lundgren.
The 2017 version under discussion stars Starlin Castro, Jacoby Ellsbury, Brett Gardner and Chase Headley. That quartet defined expendable during the offseason. The Yankees all but put them on eBay.
The Yankees were turning toward a younger cast, in part because the last we had seen of this foursome together was not exactly box-office gold. Yankees fans liked this veteran group about as much as they liked David Ortiz.