Only 3 Yankee batters above league average with no viable options to improve.

Wow. Only the three outfielders have OPS+ greater than 100.

Sorted by OPS+

Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+ ▾	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	RF	Carlos Beltran#	39	58	224	210	33	59	13	0	16	41	0	0	10	46	.281	.313	.571	.884	133	120	6	1	0	3	0
2	CF	Jacoby Ellsbury*	32	52	214	188	25	55	10	5	3	19	12	6	16	31	.293	.353	.447	.799	116	84	3	2	1	1	0
3	LF	Brett Gardner*	32	55	220	184	32	46	8	0	5	14	11	2	30	39	.250	.367	.375	.742	104	69	1	4	2	0	0
4	C	Brian McCann*	32	48	180	158	23	35	5	0	8	24	0	0	20	38	.222	.317	.405	.722	95	64	6	2	0	0	1
5	2B	Starlin Castro	26	57	232	221	19	57	10	1	9	25	2	0	10	40	.258	.293	.434	.727	95	96	6	1	0	0	0
6	DH	Alex Rodriguez	40	32	130	122	13	27	4	0	7	19	2	0	7	40	.221	.269	.426	.695	85	52	1	1	0	0	0
7	SS	Didi Gregorius*	26	55	201	191	17	51	8	0	4	19	2	1	6	23	.267	.291	.372	.663	79	71	5	1	2	1	0
8	3B	Chase Headley#	32	52	191	170	17	40	4	0	3	12	4	1	18	40	.235	.309	.312	.621	70	53	3	1	0	2	0
9	OF	Aaron Hicks#	26	50	132	117	15	24	6	0	2	12	0	1	11	21	.205	.267	.308	.575	57	36	5	0	1	3	0
10	1B	Mark Teixeira# (15-day dl)	36	48	188	167	16	30	5	0	3	12	1	0	21	49	.180	.271	.263	.535	47	44	2	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	31.3	59	2166	1960	235	476	84	8	64	225	34	11	166	409	.243	.304	.392	.696	88	768	45	13	8	13	2
		Rank in 15 AL teams				14	12	14	15	9	9		7	7	12	2	11	14	13	13		14		11		9

A-Rod has only 7 BB. Only Gregorius has fewer: 6.

Only Teixeira has a lower OPS+ than Hicks, TEN years his junior.

Beltran is the second oldest of this old bunch and he leads with OPS+ 133 and 16 homers.

Yanks best team ranks in the American Conference (AC): 9 of 15 in 3B and HR.

Second most SO in AC.

3 of the 10 are 26, the other 7 at least 32 years old.

Yanks desperately need Teixeira to return from injury and hit well. There is no viable replacement in the organization. As much as I like Rob Refsnyder, he lacks home run power and he's not hitting that much.

Rodriguez and Headley have shown signs of life recently but McCann is dropping as you'd expect of a 32 year old catcher. Rodriguez blocks Beltran from being DH, unless you play Rodriguez at 3B or 1B.

The primary option to Teixeira is Hicks: Replace Beltran with HIcks in right, put Beltran at 1B or DH and play Rodriguez at 1B. Or play McCann at 1B and Austin Romine at catcher. That means that Romine replaces Teixeira at bat.

So, it's Teixeira or Hicks or Romine. That's the big variable, i.e., not much. Everybody else is locked in with no one likely to come to the rescue.

General manager Brian Cashman created this. He must answer for it. When will Hal Steinbrenner hold Cashman responsible?