If you're disillusioned by the New York Yankees' recent play over the past (checks watch) six years, you're not alone. While it can feel inauthentic to tout farm system success when we've seen countless Yankees position player prospects hit the big leagues and regress, it still means a lot to the future of the franchise to have genuinely respected assets to deal in moments of uncertainty.
That's not to say the Yankees should be proud of keeping their top seven prospects untouched at this summer's deadline, but ... as long as they're not off limits this winter, when they're trying to build a complete roster instead of patch one up on the fly, we can get behind it.