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Joe Girardi has plenty of time to think about moves he made and how to do it better

Joe Girardi has plenty of time to second-guess himself.

He visited his office Friday for the first time since the Yankees' season ended Tuesday night. He has a hard time watching playoff games on TV, and as a sign helpfully pointed out as he came into the stadium Friday, he had 122 days until spring training. It's no wonder that his internal monologue can read like a police interrogation.

Should he have played Jacoby Ellsbury instead of Brett Gardner in Tuesday night's 3-0 wild-card loss to the Astros? Was there anything he could have done to mitigate the Yankees' second-half decline?