Fluidity of Yankees roster

I would like to state beforehand that I had this article written Friday and now it appears that the Yankees have traded for Vernon Wells because I guess Vernon Wells and Ichiro are better than Nick Swisher and will probably cost more too!

Alex Rodriguez, Curtis Granderson, Mark Teixeira, Derek Jeter, Phil Hughes and Clay Rapada, Do you know what they all have in common? They will all start the year on the disabled list for the Yankees and if want you can count Cesar Cabral, Michael Pineda and Manny Banuelos, even though none of them have thrown a pitch for the Yankees. Phil Hughes, Clay Rapada and Jeter wont be out for very long  but it does appear that none of them will be ready for opening day. As of right now only two players in last years opening day lineup will play in this years, they are Robinson Cano and Brett Gardner, every other player is hurt or on another team. All this really means that for the first time in years there is a lot of fluidity in the Yankee roster, in the sense that we really do not know what the opening day roster will look like. Right now I really do not know what the opening day lineup will be, but likely something along the lines of LF Brett Gardner, CF Vernon Wells, 2nd Robinson Cano, 3rd Kevin Youkillis, 1st Juan Rivera, DH Ben Francisco, SS Eduardo Nunez, C Francisco Cervelli, RF Ichiro. That's a very non Yankee lineup that was already going to be depleted of a lot of last years power. The last few years the only questions that we had about the Yankees roster had been a bench spot or the 5th starter and now this year it seems that we have no idea who half the team on opening day will be. I had initially written this stating, the funny part is that the Yankees might very well pick up an opening day starter before the season starts in a week and sure enough the Yankees acquired Vernon Wells who will likely be starting on opening day. Don't give up on the season yet though, while we do have scrubs starting off the year, those guys on the DL will be back eventually.