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The Yankees roster may not as well built as it could have been

Did the Yankees make the right decision trading for Giancarlo Stanton? This isn’t to say that Stanton is bad now and he will only hurt the team going forward. However, the Yankees did give up a lot in order to get him. No, I’m not talking about the package that was sent over to Miami, this is about money. In an offseason that was shaped by the amount of money the Yankees were willing to spend, Brian Cashman added $25 million onto the the payroll without improving the roster around their prized acquisition. What did we think was going to happen?