It’s Spring Training in Tampa with the Yankees. What can go wrong? Zack Britton has a bone chip in his elbow and will require surgery. He will be out the first few months of the season. This is a big deal for a team that has 2 starters who will be on pitch counts and thus require more relievers to finish a game. We saw this in the playoffs as Aaron Boone was afraid to use more than a few of his key guys. You have to figure that Chapman will get hurt at some point – he always misses some time – and that leaves Chad Green. As Joe Girardi says, “it’s not what you want.”

Ottavino is gone. The Yankees have to hope that one of the youngsters can slide into a 7th inning role. They have the guys available to step in but hard to know if they can be consistent. SU says look forward to some blown leads this year – certainly more than we are accustomed to in Yankee Land.