TORONTO — Of course the Yankees can win a championship down the road with Dellin Betances as their closer. Far less talented pitchers have recorded the season’s last out and earned highlight-film immortality.
You don’t present that question in a vacuum, though. This coming offseason, the Yankees will have the opportunity to bring back Aroldis Chapman, the free-agent-to-be closer they traded to the Cubs in late July.
With Betances struggling once again Sunday afternoon at Rogers Centre, failing to close out his own victory in a 4-3 Yankees loss to the Blue Jays — another soul-crushing defeat on this 2-8 road trip from hell — and with the presidential debate set for Monday night, one clear sentiment emerged:
Dellin Betances, you’re no Aroldis Chapman.