Among Yankees fans, the mantra is the same wherever you look: the Yankees need pitching! Newspaper reporters, online bloggers, radio personalities, and Twitter all agree that Brian Cashman should prioritize top-tier starting pitching, with the pursuit of free agents Gerrit Cole and Stephen Strasburg at the top of that list.
I’m not here to argue with that. In fact, if you were to ask me what my ideal offseason would be, landing one of those starters would be step one. What I would like to talk about, however, is the apparent obsession with it.