The Yankees, in their injury-depleted state, will face the Rays seven times in the next two weeks, then only six more times the rest of the season. The new, more balanced schedule will work against them erasing that deficit and potentially avoiding the wild-card round. And they have not won a World Series or even played in one since 2009, a veritable millennium in Yankee years.Īt 15-15, the Yankees are last in the AL East, 8 1/2 games behind the Rays. Alas, they set their own standards unfairly high, operating with a championship-or-bust mentality. And it’s fair to ask how they will plug all of their holes when their farm system has been thinned by numerous trades, several of them ill-fated.Īdditional reading: What we’ve learned in first 30 games of MLB season, from pitch clock to Rays to A’sĮven in their current predicament, the Yankees are fully capable of returning to the postseason. But it’s fair to ask how the Yankees can expect this group to get even reasonably healthy. I come not to bury the Yankees, not after nearly doing that early last September when they appeared on the verge of blowing a 15 1/2-game lead in the AL East and rallied to finish with 99 wins.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |