No one has said anything officially of course, but I have a feeling that Sheffield isn't ever gonna be 100% this season without surgery, and since the Yankees wouldn't extend his contract, he has said that he won't play hurt or partially hurt or whatever.

Can't really say as I blame him, either. The Yanks didn't show him any loyalty and he doesn't have a contract for next year, so why should he risk more serious injury by playing through this one?

Now with Matsui out, the Yanks better mke a deal for an outfielder from somewhere.

Suddenly, with Sheffield and Matsui both out, "all that offense" doesn't seem like all that much anymore.

Those two guys being out represent a loss of maybe 45-50+ homers, 1000+ at bats worth of maybe .300+ batting average, and 200+ RBIs, and the Yankees don't have anyone on their bench or in the minors that they can reasonably hope will produce anything close to those numbers.

So with Randy Johnson clearly proven as unreliable as an Ace, and two-thirds of their outfield missing, can we now say officially that "The Yankees are in trouble?"