TAMPA — As spring training opens, let’s skip the usual platitudes from this time of year, from every player being in the best shape of his life to even the A’s and Reds mustering good vibes en route to the 90-plus-loss reality of the season.

For the Yankees, let’s ignore the beginning. Let’s jump to the end, moving beyond eight months of wondering when Josh Donaldson gets released and when Giancarlo Stanton’s two injured list stints will occur.

Here in the future, the Yankees have beaten yet another outclassed AL Central patsy in the Division Series, but now it is Oct. 22, ALCS Game 6, and they have been eliminated by the Astros again. Aaron Boone and Aaron Judge tell reporters they think the team is sooooo close and how it is going to be all the sweeter when the Yankees do win it all for the first time since 2009.

This has begun to feel like “Seinfeld” — we have seen all the episodes already and it is still mildly amusing, but yada, yada, yada.