The offseason has nearly come to an end, and on Monday, the 2016 season will start the same way 2015 ended with Masahiro Tanaka and Dallas Keuchel meeting in the Bronx in a rematch of the wild-card game. After six months, Yankees baseball is back!

Erik Boland, the Yankees beat writer for Newsday, joined me to talk about the Yankees entering Opening Day, the so-called “competition” for the No. 5 starter, the sudden bullpen problems, the needed rebound years from Jacoby Ellsbury, Brett Gardner and Chase Headley and which Yankee will get the first “Ladies and gentlemen” tweet of the season.

Spring training has officially started. now that the position players have arrived in Tampa and the entire team has reported to camp. It was an eventful first day for the players as Mark Teixeira, Chase Headley and Jacoby Ellsbury had some interesting quotes for the media and Brett Gardner said he’s apparently still injured from running into the wall in the wild-card game nearly five months ago. The 2016 Yankees!

Scott Reinen of Bronx Pinstripes joined me to talk about pitchers and catchers reporting, disagreeing on Nathan Eovaldi’s ability, once again worrying about the health of Masahiro Tanaka and Michael Pineda, the future of Luis Severino, the days when CC Sabathia was still good, the Yankees having the best bullpen ever and the hope that Joe Girardi will one day get rid of set bullpen roles and manage the situation.

Spring training has started and the baseball season has officially begun. With pitchers and catchers reporting last week, the grind of spring training is a week in with six weeks to go. No one has complained about how long spring training is yet, but it’s coming soon enough.

Former Yankee and current FS1 analyst C.J. Nitkowski joined me to talk about his 10-year MLB career as a starter and reliever, working in the media, filling in for Suzyn Waldman and calling Yankees games with John Sterling, changing postgame media sessions, the schedule for pitchers at spring training, what a manager and pitching coach look for in a bullpen session, learning from John Smoltz and Mariano Rivera and how he made a spot for himself on the Yankees (the team he grew up rooting for).

Baseball is back. Well, kind of. Pitchers and catchers reported to Tampa on Thursday to officially begin the 2016 season, and unfortunately, outside of the bullpen, the Yankees have the same rotation questions and concerns they had last season. Thankfully, they are set up to have the most dominant bullpen in history.

Scott Reinen of Bronx Pinstripes joined me to talk about pitchers and catchers reporting, disagreeing on Nathan Eovaldi’s ability, once again worrying about the health of Masahiro Tanaka and Michael Pineda, the future of Luis Severino, the days when CC Sabathia was still good, the Yankees having the best bullpen ever and the hope that Joe Girardi will one day get rid of set bullpen roles and manage the situation.