We’re nearly ready to close out January, which means we’ve almost run out the clock on the last month without any professional Major League baseball being played. By the end of February, spring training games will be in full swing, and not long after that, we’ll have genuine, high-stakes international baseball in the form of the WBC. It’s close enough to be mouth-watering, but for just a little while longer, we’ll have to wait out the cold. On the site today, Estevão analyzes the free-agent deal the Yankees once gave Mariano Rivera as part of our Free Agent series, while Sam celebrates an obscure player, Hipólito Peña, for our Yankees Birthday series. Also, with the Yankees’ starting pitching depth still in question to start the season, Andrés ponders whether they should consider someone like veteran José Quintana.
Questions/Prompts:
1. If you had to pick now, who would you choose to hit the second-most homers on the Yankees in 2026?
2. Now that most of the major free agents have signed, what would you say has been the most surprising signing of the offseason?
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