In eight years with the Yankees, Joe Girardi never has allowed outside opinions to shape his belief in what type of manager he is, and that hasn’t changed after the Yankees failed to play a postseason series for the third straight year.
“I did the best I could is the bottom line,’’ Girardi said Friday morning at a Yankee Stadium press conference while the postseason roared onward without the Yankees, who were humiliated by Dallas Keuchel and the Astros, 3-0, in the AL wild-card game Tuesday.
“If people thought I could have done better, I understand that.