While the Yankees -- and most of baseball -- have lately been quiet in this oddly slow offseason, there's one area in which CC Sabathia wouldn't mind seeing his team improve.

"It is what it is, (but) you always need more," Sabathia said when asked if the Yankees need more starting pitching. "It's a long season. You never know what's going to happen. The more arms we got, the better."

Sabathia's comments came at the ribbon cutting for the Boys & Girls Club at the Christ Episcopal Church in Teaneck on Saturday morning.

All winter, the Yankees have been connected to various rotation options, only to watch them get traded elsewhere (Gerrit Cole) or remain unemployed (Yu Darvish, Alex Cobb).

General manager Brian Cashman appears ready to head into spring training with the rotation that got his club to Game 7 of the American League Championship Series last year but also could be considered thin.

Starters Luis Severino, Masahiro Tanaka, Sonny Gray, Jordan Montgomery and Sabathia each figure to reprise their roles. Each, however, comes with red flags.

For three of them, it's about injuries. Severino saw his workload increase a lot in 2016, and Cashman has acknowledged there's at least concern about whether he'll fatigue.

Tanaka will be pitching with a partial tear in his ulnar collateral ligament for the fifth season.

Gray has been on and off the DL in his career and while Sabathia made 27 starts last year, the pain caused by the degenerative condition in his right knee had him worried in August that his career could be over. (Sabathia said Saturday his knee feels "great.")

Montgomery will be entering just his second big-league season and also saw a hefty innings increase last year.

Youngsters Chance Adams, Luis Cessa and Domingo German also figure to get looks in spring training, with Justus Sheffield and Domingo Acevedo looking like potential second-half options.

As for the rest of the Yankees' offseason, Sabathia said he was excited to watch Cashman add slugger and reigning National League MVP Giancarlo Stanton.

"You always want to see your team make moves and we made some big ones this offseason," Sabathia said. "So it will be exciting to get down to spring training and get with everybody as a team."

Sabathia said it was important to him to attend the ribbon cutting, which was attended by about 300 people, including Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-NJ 5th Dist. Sabathia said when he joined a Boys & Girls Club in Oakland, Calif., as a 6-year-old, "it saved my life."

"Whatever I can do to help -- obviously, this was an opening, so it was a big thing and I wanted to be here," the 37-year-old said.

"Just for me, me and my best friends, we met at the Boys & Girls Club."

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