Yanks will wait and see at 2B YANKEES NOTES

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — How Aaron Boone juggles Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge between right field and DH will be the main event of spring training.

However, the undercard has an intriguing feel to it since the Yankees need to find Starlin Castro’s replacement at second base after he was shipped to the Marlins in the Stanton deal.

Gleyber Torres, Ronald Torreyes and Tyler Wade will be in the mix, and the most intriguing of them is Torres. And never count out the Yankees looking outside if the right deal surfaces.

“Our second-base situation is going to play out one way or the other,” general manager Brian Cashman said Monday at the Winter Meetings. “We’ll see how the rest of our dialogue in the winter goes, and then we have players like a Gleyber Torres, like Torreyes, Tyler Wade, [Thairo] Estrada. We have a lot of good, young, hungry players that depending how it looks in spring and depending upon how our conversations as we move forward this winter play out — so clearly, stay tuned. I don’t have, nor will Boonie have, a second baseman that we will name on Dec. 11.”

Obtained from the Cubs in July 2016 for Aroldis Chapman, Torres is the jewel of a solid minor league system. A natural shortstop, Torres’ 2017 season was cut short by a left (non-throwing) elbow injury that required Tommy John surgery.

Free agent CC Sabathia is expected to visit the Winter Meetings on Tuesday, and the Yankees remain interested in bringing the veteran lefty back.

“Yeah, we have payroll space because we have more work to do,” Cashman said. “This situation fits because we still have room to accomplish all of our stated goals, but obviously it takes up some of that space clearly.” Boone said Monday that Phil Nevin will be the new Yankees third-base coach and Reggie Willets will be at first. Carlos Mendoza is in line for the infield job that will put him in the dugout. Mike Harkey is expected back as the bullpen coach, and Marcus Thames is the favorite to be the hitting coach.