I did not renew my New York Yankees' season ticket package this year.

Over the past few seasons I have grown increasingly frustrated with the organization. Not the players. The players play hard and leave their best on the field.

And while I applaud the smart off-season signings this past year (Anthony Rizzo, Aaron Judge, Carlos Rodon) and the money being put to work to lock up the right players (not paying $40+ million for 40 year-old starting pitchers), there is an underlying uneasiness that boils up inside me as we approach the 2023 season.

That uneasiness stems from the fact that we are putting the same lineup on the field to start the season. A formula that clearly didn’t work come playoff time in 2022.

The New York Yankees front office is smarter than the fans, that statement being a non-conventional view in the eyes of many fans. The New York Yankees front office has more data than the fans. That said, it has become apparent that the intellect and data are coming up short. Clearly, over the past five seasons, the Yankees have been successful and the front office has built winning ball clubs over a 162 game-span. The issue, however, is that there is a blatant disregard, or so it seems, for the intangibles and the information not embedded in the data. And those intangibles is what is needed come playoff time.

Keeping it very simple, the fact of the matter is that the makeup of the 2022 Yankees lineup couldn’t hit good pitching. It was evident to anybody who paid attention. Yes, they will win 100 games in an 162 game season but when you are up against the best pitchers in the league, those pitchers had the upper hand against the '22 lineup every game.

We need to shake-up the lineup. Take a risk and let some of these young players have a chance at the Major League level from the start. Look what the Astros did with Jeremy Pena in 2022. They took a risk and it paid off. That kid is a gamer. He’s there to compete and win.

You can’t truly measure the heartbeat of a player. Mr. Jeter talks about that in his ESPN docu-series and how that is something Mr. Torre used to say (Yes, I’m referring to them formally because that’s the amount of respect those individuals have earned from my perspective).

Take a risk. Let the kids play. Oswaldo Cabrera showed you what energy and passion can do in a lineup when he stepped into a starting role late in 2022 when the team was in a slump. Oswald Peraza is a gamer and seamlessly stepped into the most important position on the field at the end of last year on one of the biggest stages in one of the biggest cities in the world. Anthony Volpe and Jasson Dominguez raked in the minors and have continued that in Spring Training.  Mr. Judge said it best today, “…if you’re the best player, it shouldn’t matter your age. You should be helping the New York Yankees.” Let. Them. Play.

Something needs to change to get me spending money again at One East 161st Street, Bronx, New York.

We need to take a step back and take a more simplistic approach. Baseball is a simple game. You see the ball, you hit the ball. You catch the ball, you throw the ball. The New York Yankees win World Series. It’s just the way it is.