Welcome to December. The offseason’s busiest month has arrived and that means gobs of rumors and transactions. That is every bit as true for the 2018 going on 2019 Yankees as it was the 2013 going on 2014 Yankees. In fact, this month’s edition of our MLBTR Archives series includes over 1,600 words of copied and pasted MLB Trade Rumors blurbs alone. Then we added our commentary on top of that.
Anyway, the Yankees went 85-77 in 2013 and missed the postseason. By time December 1st rolled around they’d already re-signed Derek Jeter, signed Brian McCann, and shown interest in Jhonny Peralta, Omar Infante, and Brandon Phillips as backup plans in case Robinson Cano signed elsewhere, which of course he did.