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00:00Joel Sherman from Yankee Stadium for three things.

00:05Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone just completed their year-end press conference.

00:11It's now a traditional thing.

00:12The Yankees fall short of winning a World Series.

00:15Those two men come in and explain what happened, what they hope to do moving forward.

00:20There wasn't a lot of details, but why don't we start here with number one.

00:23If you hate Brian Cashman and you hate Aaron Boone, you're going to hate what's coming next.

00:28Nothing much is changing.

00:31They changed some of the—maybe they're changing the curtains.

00:34Mike Harkey, the bullpen coach.

00:36Pat Rossler, an assistant hitting coach.

00:40Travis Chapman, first base coach.

00:42That's who's gone.

00:44But the same people who are making decisions in the front office,

00:47the same person who's making the decision as the manager, they're coming back.

00:50I don't think their philosophy is going to change all that much.

00:54So they're putting a band back together,

00:57and I will call that band until something changes, the Red Zone Yankees.

01:01They're really good at getting close to the goal line.

01:04I asked both guys today if they had thoughts on what would get them those last yards

01:10and over the goal line into the World Series end zone.

01:14Sorry for the terrible analogy.

01:16To the Canyon of Heroes.

01:17Nobody offered anything firm except for you take more shots at this.

01:21You keep putting good teams together, and you hope that one year everything lines up

01:25and goes as you hope.

01:27So that's number one.

01:29Number two, Anthony Volpe, as The Post first reported exclusively yesterday,

01:34had a labrum repair surgery.

01:36Brian Cashman said it was a little more significant than they thought.

01:40He is not going to be an active player when the season begins.

01:43The Yankees are hoping he'll be back by mid-April to early May in that period,

01:48but they're saying he is still going to be the shortstop.

01:52The one thing they harped on a lot, it's something I talked about in a video earlier this week,

01:58is that he's a young player, and they're hoping they're still upside to him.

02:03It will be interesting what they do at shortstop.

02:06They did trade for Jose Caballero at the trade deadline.

02:09They should have Oswaldo Cabrera, who I watched on this field regularly at the end of the season,

02:14working out, had that traumatic leg injury.

02:17Those would give him two options.

02:18I expect they'll try very hard to bring in a good quadruple A-type shortstop or not,

02:23but they're continuing to say that Anthony Volpe is the shortstop moving forward,

02:28and they believe there is still an upside to the player.

02:31I am curious if Caballero gets off well.

02:33That's months and months from now, and who knows?

02:36But if Caballero gets off well next year, what the implications are that coming back

02:42for a player that's very, very popular with Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman,

02:46but has lost his popularity with the fan base?

02:50Number three, a little new news today.

02:53Carlos Rodon needed a cleanup of some loose bodies in his elbow and a bone spur shaved down.

02:59He did that in Southern California.

03:01Neil Elitrasch, the famed surgeon, did it for him earlier this week.

03:06He is also not going to be an active player to begin the season.

03:10He is, again, on that same timeline as Volpe, expected either mid-April or early May,

03:16with the fact that Garrett Cole is not going to be an active player to begin the season

03:21and that his timeline might match up to something similar.

03:24The fact that Clark Schmidt, at best, is going to be a second-half option.

03:28The fact that Max Fried was a heavily used starter this year.

03:31Will Warren was a heavily used starter.

03:34There are some questions about what you have in Luis Hill moving forward.

03:37And Will Warren was durable but not high-end excellent.

03:42Brian Cashman wouldn't out-and-out say that the Yankees are going to go get a starting pitcher

03:46this offseason.

03:48And it's a little tricky because, as Brian Cashman said,

03:50I have to make sure there are slots for Rodon and Cole to come back into a rotation.

03:56And if you sign a starter and say, you know, Freed and Hill, who doesn't have options yet,

04:02and Schlitter, who does, but if he continues to pitch at a high end,

04:05you want to keep everyone in the rotation.

04:07But I think the Yankees have to be in the starting pitching market at some level,

04:12whether that's to get a kind of sick starter type who could swing into the bullpen,

04:17it's to get a young starter who can have options, who they could send to the minor leagues

04:22as it goes along that would be in the trade market.

04:25I doubt they're going to the top of the market.

04:28Cole, Rodon, and Freed are three of the most expensive pitchers, not just now,

04:32but in baseball history, for how much money the Yankees outlaid for them.

04:37I suspect that there's big money spent this offseason.

04:40It is going to be on Cody Bellinger.

04:42We'll see what that price ends up being.

04:45But the fact that Rodon is not going to be a viable starter early in the season

04:51and that they have some other starting pitching question marks

04:54means the Yankees are going to have to get creative about bringing in a starting pitcher.

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