While the rest of the American League East is treating this offseason like a nuclear arms race, the New York Yankees appear to be treating it like a library study session. It feels like we are watching a boxing match where one fighter is content to lean on the ropes and absorb body blows, hoping the opponent eventually tires out. But the opponents aren’t tiring; they are reloading with heavy artillery, leaving the Yankees’ inactivity to look less like patience and more like paralysis.

The landscape of the division shifted violently this week when the Baltimore Orioles signed Pete Alonso to a five-year, $155 million contract, adding a legitimate 40-homer threat to a lineup that was already terrifying.

To the north, the Toronto Blue Jays didn’t waste a second, securing ace Dylan Cease on a

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