Normally after a failed season, the Yankees would go on a shopping binge that would make Carrie Bradshaw blush.
But nothing is normal anymore.
There isn’t the wide buffet of young bucks you’d have a decade ago, lined up like a long mug shot, for the Yanks to pick and pluck. Local and regional cable deals now allow smaller market franchises to keep their best players, thus creating a financial membrane between themselves and the opulence of the Yankees, who have made hay by poaching the poor clubs that freckle the map.