10 Terrifying Reasons to Dread What's Coming (for the Yankees, anyway)

Damn... 

Today, I woke up on the wrong side of the bed - the glass half-empty, the world off-kilter, the Matrix glitched, the ghosty world around me whispering, "Quiet, quiet, Piggy." 

I look at the Yankees and see the apocalypse.

Armageddon outahere. 

Ten reasons to fear what's coming. in 2025.

1. Owner Hal is already poormouthing about the 2026 Yankee payroll, which will fall well below those of the Dodgers and Mets.

2. That means Cooperstown Cashman must improve the Yankee roster through trades.

3. To do so, Cashman will have to give up the only things other teams covet - the Yankees' best youngish prospects.

4. The Yankees blew up their farm system last August at the trade deadline. They will have a hard time matching other teams' prospect packages.

5. To get anybody of quality, they will have to deal Anthony Volpe, Jasson Dominguez, Spencer Jones - maybe even Ben Rice and/or Cam Schlittler. 

6. Of these players, only Jones and Schlittler might be at their peaks as trade chips. Volpe and Dominguez had disappointing seasons in 2025. 

7. For the last three years, Aaron Judge has played relatively full seasons without injuries. Eventually, that luck will run out.

8. Giancarlo Stanton will be 36. He hasn't hit 30 HRs in a season since 2022. He is not getting younger. 

9. There is no guarantee that Gerrit Cole, at 35, will be the same pitcher he was before surgery.

10. The AL East will be baseball's toughest division in 2025. The Redsocks wave of prospects will be peaking, Toronto is here to stay, and one of these years, all that talent in Baltimore will coalesce. 

Mamdani is said to hate the Yankees. NYC is ready to become a Met town. 

The days are still getting shorter.