TAMPA, Fla. — Piece by piece, player by player, the 2014 Yankees are assembling here. Two days ahead of the official reporting date, Carlos Beltran, Brian Roberts and Kelly Johnson were the latest players to arrive at spring training Monday, working out together at the team’s minor league complex in anticipation of what some of them say could be a special season, perhaps even ending in ultimate glory.

“I feel personally that our club has a good chance,” Beltran said. “I know it’s going to be hard because the American League East division is a strong division. But we feel we have a good team.”

Beltran was one of several players the Yankees signed to help erase the failure of last season, when they did not make the playoffs. The idea was to add a starting pitcher and make the lineup deeper.

Robinson Cano and Curtis Granderson left via free agency, but Beltran, Jacoby Ellsbury, Brian McCann, Masahiro Tanaka, Roberts and Johnson were brought in for what the Yankees believe will be a net improvement. The Yankees committed more than $460 million to those players, with a mandate to more than just return to the playoffs.