The Yankees’ pitching staff needs to prioritize strikeouts

The 2019 Yankees are going to be an exceptionally good team. They’ll probably come close to 100 wins for the second straight year, and will almost certainly be a playoff team. If there’s a glaring weakness, though, it’s the infield defense.

Based on the way the roster is breaking down right now, it looks like the Opening Day lineup will feature either Brett Gardner or Clint Frazier playing in left, Aaron Hicks holding down center, and Aaron Judge patrolling right field. One of Gardner or Frazier would then serve as the fourth outfielder.

That leaves only one bench job for an infielder, as the infield is probably shaping up to be Miguel Andujar, Troy Tulowitzki, Gleyber Torres and Luke Voit…