Keidel: Though Incomplete, Yankees’ Rotation Will Be Intriguing

Yankees right-hander Luis Severino (Photo by Leon Halip/Getty Images)This is an odd time for the Yankees and their fans.

Every spring you sense a certain bluster, a confidence, a yearly hubris that only comes with accomplishment, if not entitlement. As if the sport were invented simply as a case study in pinstriped dominance.

Not so much anymore. If the Yankees have an ancestral grip on the World Series, you don’t get that sense from the natives. There’s a much more muted take on the team. Fans speak with grudging optimism, as though they have a chance of winning, not the ritualistic certainty.

And, as we hear every year, the sport pivots on the truism that pitching wins world championships.…