In case you still were worried the Yankees actually somehow would arrive at spring training with the likes of Luis Gil, Cody Poteet, Luke Weaver, Clayton Beeter and Will Warren battling it out for the fifth starter spot, fear not.

A little over a month after the Yankees created a hole in their rotation, they filled it Thursday night by agreeing with Marcus Stroman on a two-year, $37 million contract that has a vesting option for a third year.

At least for the moment, the Yankees’ pitching predicament has been settled. Just how it plays out, and whether there’s one more big addition to come, remains to be seen.

But in the lead-up to the Yankees landing Stroman, one of Brian Cashman’s comments from earlier this offseason kept coming to mind.