Yankees Signing Chris Carter Creates a Massive Logjam

On Tuesday afternoon the Yankees signed free agent slugger Chris Carter to a 1-year/$3M deal. The problem is where do they play him?

Is this the impact bat Yankees fans waited for all winter long? I’m not sure. But the club was able to secure a guy coming off a 41 home run season for a bargain basement price. Perhaps this had something to do with his 206 strikeouts in 2016? Or his feeble attempts at manning first base. Or the fact that he runs the bases worse than former San Francisco Giants first baseman Will Clark.

Whatever the case, the Yankees struck a deal with Carter only hours after it was reported that the Dodgers, Rays, and multiple teams in Japan were interested in potentially…