Next man up not working for 2020 Yankees

The Yankees have a little more than one week left in the 2020 regular season. It’s been a wild, frustrating year, but things look better today than they have in quite a while. The starting pitching has dramatically improved since late August, a number of Yankee stars have returned from the IL, and the team is rattling off wins in a businesslike manner. I never though I’d say this a few weeks ago, but I’m genuinely excited for the 2020 postseason.

Things will undoubtedly be different this October. There won’t be fans in the stands, and I expect that some of the normal pressure and energy of playoff baseball will be absent. Still, the postseason is the postseason. The stakes will be high, the…