The New York Yankees spent the trade deadline pivoting from their previous annoying baseline — ignoring the bench and letting the chips fall where they may — by adding platoon pieces in Amed Rosario and Austin Slater, both of whom held genuine situational value. Maybe this offseason, they'll continue to adhere to that mantra, which could help them reverse another trend: watching the Red Sox routinely eat their lunch by maximizing the skill sets of former Yankees.
This winter, there's an opportunity for the Yankees to finally get the better of that particular pipeline by signing an old friend for a return engagement: Rob Refsnyder, who's grown up a lot.