Is there a team in baseball that has developed so few of its own players as the Yankees? The O's have Machado, and the Redsocks next year will offer their fans Bogartes and Jackie Bradley Jr. And we will once again have nothing, no impact players from the farm system. And frankly, unless somebody emerges, we might be in the tank through 2015. Under what metric system does Brian Cashman look like a success?

We are about to cede New York City to the Mets, and that's not easy to do.