Roger Angell once wrote that a simple box score has the capacity to elicit “...the same hallucinatory reality, that pickles the scalp of a musician when he glances at a page of his score of Don Giovanni and actually hears bassos and sopranos, woodwinds and violins.”
Baseball, above any other sport, lends itself to storytelling. A box score tells the story of an individual game; an article highlights narratives throughout a season; a book details an entire career’s highs and lows.
Storylines have an inextricable connection to baseball, and for that reason, it makes sense to use that as the basis for our 2019 Yankees season preview.