# @nypostsports on YouTube

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- **Posted:** 2023-09-29T21:47:53.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** DJ Sixsmith (@DJSixsmith) — https://gondola.cc/DJSixsmith

## Caption

First in a two-part series on how to fix the Yankees

“Coffee’s for closers only.”

— Blake, “Glengarry Glen Ross”

I have been thinking about this line a lot recently. Because these are the Yankees. And in good times and especially bad it is expected that they are going to the top of the market to problem solve. And the Yankees need impact lefty bats, and Shohei Ohtani and Cody Bellinger in free agency and Juan Soto possibly in a trade are available.

But here is the thing: “Coffee’s for closers only.”

These types of players are acquired for three reasons:

1. To be a tentpole to indicate an organization is trying to shift into a more serious mode.

2. To change the narrative around a franchise that is being called cheap or is said to be unable to lure stars or hungers to juice attendance and/or TV ratings.

3. As a finishing piece to an organization that perceives itself a championship club.

The Yankees have spent most of the last three decades in that third bucket, though I think they signed Carlos Rodon for six years at $162 million last offseason for a combination of Nos. 2 and 3; as if Hal Steinbrenner felt he had to pay salutation to his network and to a fan base screaming that he was cheap while in the familiar chorus that he is not his dad. I know how effusive executives in the organization were when the Yankees spent big on Gerrit Cole or CC Sabathia or Masahiro Tanaka. No Yankees official, even in real time, crowed over Rodon; instead, this played more like a habit — we are the Yankees and something of magnitude from outside the organization must be done to stop the noise after a humiliating ALCS sweep by the nemesis Astros.

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