The Baby Bombers will have an opportunity to live up to their moniker next season. Yankees general manger Brian Cashman expects to target pitching in the offseason rather than addre s a younglineup that is moving on from Mark Teixeira, Carlos Beltran andAlex Rodriguez."The pitching is an area of need," Cashman told reporters in a season-ending newsconference Wednesday,"so the starting pitching, middle relief, setup those are certainly going to be almost half of your roster and you have to fortify, fortify, fortify. We'll try to do that again."MORE: MLB's most disappointing players in 2016 Cashman spoke for nearly an Eddie Rosario Jersey hour in a se sing 2016 "our offense was bad; we had a bad offensive team" and detailing his approach for 2017.The Yankees were busy at the trade deadline, dealing relievers Aroldis Chapman andAndrew Miller for prospects, but the club also lost starterNathan Eovaldito Tommy John surgeryand have the agingCC Sabathia under contract for one more season.The good news is the Yankees can spend big; they have no major players to re-sign. The bad news is the market for free-agent starting pitching doesn't contain any bignames.Notable options includeJeremy Hellickson, Ivan Nova (whom the Yankees traded to the Pirates at the deadline)andRich Hill. On the relief side, All-Stars Chapman,Kenley Jansen andMark Melancon could be available.New York could also trade for pitching in the winter,but Cashman doesn't seem willing to partwith theyoung talent nece sary to Torii Hunter Jersey fill holes on the staff.MORE: Worst players of 2016 "I would be hard-pre sed to do that; I think that we have spent a lot of time and effort growing to this level," Cashman said just days after hisclub mi sedthe playoffs for the third time in four seasons."I think we have an exciting young nucleus that's coming. Some of Jason Castro Jersey it has arrived, some of it's still coming, but there are some flaws in this roster still."(Improvement will come) from improved play from younger guys coming up through the system which had a chance to get their legs under them this year, and now being able to hopefully solidify a position moving forward and provide more consistent production from those positions that we got in 2016."One trade option for Cashman is catcherBrianMcCann, whois owed $34 million over the next two seasonsand lost his starting job to slugger Gary Sanchez in August. Right fielderAaron Judge, infielder/outfielderRob Refsnyder, first baseman/outfielderTyler Austin and first basemanGreg Bird are the early competitors to replace Beltran andTeixeira in the lineup full time.Every decision is designed to get us closer to being the last team standing, Cashman said. Thats the approach thats got to be taking place. Can it happen in 2017? Thats the goal."