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Sweeny: Talk Of Kids Is Nice, But Older Yankees To Drive 2016 Bus

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We need to fast forward to Opening Day.

I mean, it was nice to watch Aaron Judge and Jorge Mateo and James Kaprielian do their things last week and dream about the future. And it’s important to see how the bench and the bullpen fills out the roster, with the next three weeks of games helping you figure all that out.

But as much as we wring our hands over who are literally the 24th and 25th men on the team, and ponder a hypothetical world in which the next Core Four is in place by Memorial Day, we need to get to Opening Day and plant ourselves in the reality of the 2016 Yankees season.