Who Knows What Tomorrow Brings

Anyone who's been around sports for as many years as I have understands the need to get value while you can, restock your pipeline for talent and make sure your future is as bright as possible whenever you can. Getting younger faster and more athletic is a sports Axiom that holds true for any sports team you can talk about. The question is what's the best way to do it, and at what price. After all,  whether sports fans want to admit it,  the best way for these businesses to survive and thrive is to make sure their product is worth watching and sometimes it's painful process to get to that point. We all root for our favorite players and identifying with their ups and downs as if they were our friends. The reality is it is a business and emotions sometimes take a backseat to Dollars & Sense.
    What the Yankees are doing is something that you very rarely see top teams do because winning is always a relevant concern. I have never seen a team have a player dump like this and although it gives them youth and athleticism it also gives them an uncertain future. There's no question they must have a bigger plan in mind like stockpiling young prospects to package players for a starting pitcher or a big-time hitter which is obviously what they probably are thinking about. If not it's going to be a number of years before these kids even have an impact on their team. A wise man once said prospects are prospects and the odds against them even advancing through your minor league system are very small. The best you can hope for is to use them for trades or possibly help your team at one point in the future. With all of the thousands of kids in the minors think about how many actually make it to the Major Leagues, and we all know the answer to that. The Yankees have dismantled the best bullpen in baseball, gave away one of the best hitters and in essence traded three All Star player for prospects  that may or may not help them, and if at all are couple years away. The Yankees didn't get one player back that can help them now. It's going to be a long process. Supposedly the headliners are the real deal. For all those fans who want to blow up the system and start over to build a new Dynasty you've got your wish and hopefully it comes to fruition.
Yankees were competitive already, that's what .500 means. Were they on their way to the World Series that's a stretch for sure but they started the season 9 under and before the Tampa series they were three games over which means since that time they were -9 they have been +12. As good a record as anybody in that stretch of time. They weren't out of the mix, they were competitive. In my opinion the Yankees could have built with some off season trades some free agent signings with their freed up contract money, and continue to develop their minor Leaguers and not have necessarily blown up their team.Their Bullpen was as lockdown as you can get, that's worth a lot. The Yanks led the MLB in 1 run victories.
     As I've said I assume they will use some of their prospects 4 player upgrades. If all of their prospects  develop the Yankees will be a monster franchise. But history shows that never happens and hopefully  one or two prospects will survive. Evaluating 20 year olds is always a crap shoot no matter how good they look now. Season ticket holders and fans alike thanks for your patience, and  hopefully it won't take too long to get back to even where the Yankees are now,  Sorry George, I hope it works for you....Go Yanks...