It’s Thanksgiving Day, which only means one thing for Yankees fans: the hot stove should finally be about to heat up, and with it, we begin to leave the 2019 season further in the mirror as we look more in earnest toward 2020. As we wait for more projections to come out, however, we can look towards this past season to get a rough idea as to where the Yankees stand going forward.
A number of statistics can be used to try and forecast a team’s true talent level and project its performance in the following season, ranging from team-wide values like a team’s actual and Pythagorean record to aggregates of individual stats like WAR.