Topics include: the Yankees avoid arbitration with all of their eligible players, an updated look at the 2018 salary, flexibility with the remaining money they have to spend, if they would abandon their plan to get under the tax threshold mid-season, Brian Cashman being honest about Jacoby Ellsbury, Yu Darvish contract rumors and if the Yankees should go after him, and Gerrit Cole was traded for about an hour, then not traded, and now traded again.