TAMPA — Do the Yankees have three shortstop, two shortstops, one shortstop or none?
This is not a trick question. The answer is not, ta-da, Manny Machado.
Troy Tulowitzki, Didi Gregorius and Gleyber Torres give the Yankees either a three-headed solution or two injuries and a maybe. They could have talent and depth or a “told you so” chorus from fans who believed going under the luxury-tax threshold last year was undertaken to score someone such as Machado — particularly if the starting shortstop (Gregorius) needs Tommy John surgery and the third baseman (Miguel Andujar) was the majors’ worst defensively at his position in 2018.