They won't have Arod for most or all of next year. Anyway he'll be like 38 and he's not the player he was. Jeter will be 40. Pineda...who knows what he is after all the surgeries. They won't necessarily sign Cano, either. Their farm system doesn't have anything ready for the next couple years. Texeira will be back but it's another player on the downslope who's stats have been declining.
It won't be easy for them to turn the tide against all that.