Yankees players are due to begin reporting for spring training in one week, and General Manager Brian Cashman has no trouble identifying the primary concern for his team.
“Our starting rotation’s health is really the keys to the kingdom for us,” Cashman said. “It normally is for anybody, but I believe when we’re able to run out our healthy starting rotation that we have on paper, we can match up with anybody.”
In 2015 the Yankees reached the playoffs for the first time in three seasons, but it was a brief and unpleasant stay when they were shut out at home by the Houston Astros’ Dallas Keuchel in the wild-card game.