YES had their first offseason show tonight, I will watch it later but reportedly Hal Steinbrenner said that they expect to have two rotation spots open in spring training, just as I detailed in the post quoted below. I am both very happy that they are going this route (at least for now) and proud of myself for saying this when none of the beat writers were.
So I'm reading a lot of pieces about what NY needs to do in the offseason, and the one area I think they're all wrong in is that NY absolutely should not give up resources to trade for a SP. Their rotation right now is Tanaka, Sabathia, Pineda and two spots up for grabs. They have a ton of possibilities for those two spots, and I'm not even counting Severino (I think he ends up as a shutdown multi-inning bullpen guy):
Cessa
Green
Mitchell
Montgomery
Chance Adams
Whichever two of those five impress the most in spring training get the rotation spots, the other three go to AAA to wait. Meanwhile if Severino goes to the bullpen and NY can sign one of the three stud closers (Chapman, Jansen, Melancon), they quietly have a stacked bullpen again:
Clippard
Warren
Severino
Betances
Chapman/Jansen/Melancon
They need a second lefty, maybe Enns can beat out Shreve and Pazos. Signing a veteran SP is OK, but it needs to be a AAAA type who can go to Scranton and wait for an emergency. As far as SPs, besides the eight listed above, Kaprielian, Sheffield and Acevedo are not that far away, one or more could be ready by next summer.