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Appears that Hal Steinbrenner is only going to make cosmetic changes for 2024.

Hal Steinbrenner doesn’t sound ready for any Yankees overhaul

On Wednesday, Steinbrenner played to part by being revealingly unrevealing about plans for the Yankees this offseason. He was at a conference and spoke in generalities about “making some changes” and that “some may be more subtle than others, but I think we’ve uncovered certainly things we can do better.” On reorganization, he said of, “possibly personnel [moves]. But not necessarily personnel.”

And yet can this really be just cosmetic? Steinbrenner already is resisting the mob as it is clear that he is retaining Cashman over the throaty disapproval of his most vocal fans. All indicators are that Aaron Boone is being retained as well.

So could Steinbrenner’s checklist this winter really be, say, dismissing a coach or two, changing the leadership of, for example, the international department and setting an agenda that Cashman will meet once a week with veteran baseball personnel like Omar Minaya and Brian Sabean to make sure he does not overdo the analytic thing and sell that as his response to 82-80, an offense that looked like something 1968 dragged in, continuing large injury numbers each season, a series of one botched transaction after another, etc.?

That would be minimalist as a response, after all.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/11/hal-steinbrenner-doesnt-sound-ready-for-yankees-overhaul/