Brian Cashman admitted Wednesday that the New York Yankees need improvements to make a strong run at a 28th World Series title.

"I feel that we need to get better from within, and I think I can speed up the process if I run into something outside at the same time," Cashman said when asked about the trade market. "We usually make moves every year, so I expect to make moves again."

However, New York won't simply make a move just to shuffle the roster.

I think you have to play it out," he added. "I'm not going to do something just to do it. I took a team in 1998 that won 125 games and lost only 50. That was one of the best teams of all time, and that team wasn't perfect, either. You always have to pursue the opportunity to improve it, and even if you're in the postseason to the very end, you see the areas of weakness."