TAMPA — The stench of an 82-80 season is still wafting through the Yankees’ airspace, but the scent of spring and its promise of wiping the slate clean is about to offer a welcome diversion.
It will require more than a quality offseason of roster transactions or an encouraging spring training for the Yankees to fully fumigate what happened in 2023.
But they have to start somewhere, and as pitchers and catchers report to camp Wednesday, they will try to begin turning the page on the franchise’s worst season in 31 years.
While the first full-squad workout is set for next Tuesday, the Yankees have had a growing number of players already in Tampa over the past weeks and months, using the disappointment from a season that general manager Brian Cashman described as a “disaster” to try to make sure it does not happen again.
“[In] all aspects we’re going to try to hit the ground running, as you do every year, but obviously this year is even that much more important and meaningful given how last year played,” Cashman said last month. “I think every player, every staff member, anybody in the front office, ownership all understands and knows that. No one wants to have that experience that we had last year of underperforming, failing, however you want to characterize it. We’re better than that. And our fans deserve better than that. And we’re intending on running a 2024 season in a much better light.”
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