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Opt-out decision gives Yankees the high-profile bullpen solution they're scared of

The New York Yankees have a lengthy shopping list this offseason, but perhaps no position needs more reinforcements than the bullpen. It's an area the Yankees have convinced themselves they'd be able to fill cheaply in perpetuity, and with pitching lab-created greatness. In recent years, though, most of those lab diamonds have been obvious fakes; instead of mining the Louvre, the Yankees burgled a Zales in Paramus.

Last summer, as Luke Weaver had the Walk Year From Hell and Devin Williams had the ... Walk Year From Hell Also, the team's future needs only got more glaring.