WE'RE NOT DONE YANKEE FANS! GET READY FOR MORE!

Okay, so I feel a little bit better about our roster now then I did before the holiday weekend. We got DJ LeMahieu back, and we added needed depth with Corey Kluber but we can't be done yet. Luxury tax aside, if the Yankees want the best chance to get back to the World Series we still have more work to do.

Now that we have DJ back we can all breathe a sigh of relief but now we need to more pitching depth. Kluber was just the start. The Yankees can't call it an offseason without adding more starting pitching. Once the season opens we already know Kluber and Gerrit Cole are penciled into the rotation and then we have some combination of Jordan Montgomery, Deivi Garcia and Domingo German who we haven't seen since 2019. It seems unlikely that the Yankees rotation will feature all of those names for Opening Day, and I'm not sure it should. 

I said the Yankees weren't done yet, because I think they will add another starter for some insurance especially since Luis Severino won't be back until summer. They could look at trades, but I think they will look at a free agent instead. There aren't a lot of attractive names out there but the Yankees should consider Jake Odorizzi.

It may sound a little crazy but I wonder what it would take to convince Odorizzi to sign a short term deal. I don't think he is going to get the kind of multi-year deal he wants. Maybe it is an opportunity to prove he's healthy and he can rebuild his value. At 30 I would give him a chance. I don't know what it would take to convince him, maybe $8-10 million a year? It's worth a look.

I just don't see the Yankees being done yet. I think the Yankees need another starter and still some bullpen help. If the Yankees aren't going to consider James Paxton or Masahiro Tanaka, it's worth a call. It definitely can't hurt.

  --Jeana Bellezza-Ochoa

     BYB Managing Editor

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