LAS VEGAS — There should still be plenty of it for the Yankees this winter, but the time for introspection is almost over.
The time for business, in what is expected to be a truncated offseason because of a looming lockout, is about to begin.
With slightly more than three weeks remaining until a likely work stoppage, Brian Cashman and his counterparts will convene in Las Vegas this week for the general managers meetings. The annual event typically lays the groundwork for the offseason ahead, but with major league transactions set to freeze when the collective bargaining agreement expires at 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 1, some teams may get started early this year.
It remains to be seen just how active the Yankees will actually be ahead of the lockout — they mostly sat out this month the last time a lockout was coming — but there are still important matters to address in the coming days and weeks as they try once again to pick themselves up off the mat after another early playoff exit and construct a roster that can find a different ending next year.
