Joe Girardi said the Yankees would address ways to beat the shifts.

Say it ain't so, Joe.

Yankees See Alex Rodriguez as a Starter, as Long as He Earns It
By DAVID WALDSTEIN SEPT. 29, 2014  The New York Times

If Alex Rodriguez is capable of hitting at all, the Yankees want him. Their offense was terrible ...

The Yankees scored only 633 runs. Yes, offense has declined over all in baseball, but the Yankees may have suffered a greater decline than most teams, in part because of defensive infield shifts against them, which have proved torturous to Mark Teixeira and Brian McCann, who hit in the middle of the batting order. Their batting averages have declined in the past few years, and much of that can be attributed to shifts.

Joe Girardi said the Yankees would address ways to beat the shifts.

“Will it be something we work on in spring training?” he said. “Yes, it will be.”
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I've been beating this drum all season, including the unwillingness of teams to try to beat the shift when it is employed against them even though they themselves deploy it against opponents.  Incredible.

Now, after failing to qualify for the tournament for the second consecutive season, the manager of the New York Yankees states that he will take action next season.  He had all of this season to do something but chose not to.  The chief culprit on the Yankees and possibly in the entire league was Mark Teixeira.  Teixeira's 2014 second half numbers:
BA .179
OBP .271
SLG .302
OPS .573

At any point Girardi could have ordered Teixeira to bunt for a hit against the shift.  To my knowledge none of the other managers behaved differently.  They all had numbers showing that their use of the shift took hits away from opposing batters, yet none tried to mitigate that when the shift was used against their own batters.  They understood but did not act.

More than anything else, this made the 2014 season aggravating.  That's not entertainment.  It made my teeth hurt.  Argh!