Time heals all wounds, they say. Unless someone comes around a decade later and cruelly pokes and prods at them. And while I’d like to think I have a loftier purpose in taking us back to the year 2013 to reminisce about the lineup the Yankees sent out to face the Boston Red Sox in the first game of that year, it’s painful nonetheless.
I’ve been a bit bearish on this season’s lineup. I’m worried that a lot of variables have to break the Yankees’ way for the lineup to really click at a high level — health, bounce-back seasons, youngsters playing at a high level, and so on and so on.