Although the New York Yankees entered play Monday with a comfortable six and a half game lead in the AL East, it is still hard to deny that the team has went through an identity change in 2015. For the first time in two decades, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Andy Pettitte, and Jorge Posada are all no longer with the team.
The organization, like so many others, are looking for the next wave of prospects to come up and leave their mark on the big league club. The Core Four’s success will be hard for any group of prospects to match, as they won five rings, set countless team and postseason records, and produced two sure-fire first-ballot Hall of Famers (Jeter and Rivera) and two borderline Hall of Famers (Pettitte and Posada).