We are in a new month, and because that month is March, it means meaningful baseball is coming. The Yankees will open the 2019 regular season four weeks in three weeks and six days. Back in 2014, the regular season did not begin until April 1st. The 2014 Yankees made it through Spring Training healthy. (Brendan Ryan started the season on the 15-day DL with a back problem. That’s all.) Let’s hope the 2019 Yankees do the same.
Anyway, after going 85-77 and missing the postseason in 2013, the Yankees abandoned their luxury tax plan during the 2013-14 offseason, and committed big dollars to Carlos Beltran, Jacoby Ellsbury, Brian McCann, and Masahiro Tanaka.