“If a basketball team loses by two points, everyone thinks the entire team needs to be torn down. If a basketball team wins by two points, nobody thinks anything needs to change. A four-point difference is the fate of the team” — Sam Miller.
The Yankees are out of the playoffs, and we’ll spend a good deal of the winter autopsying the organization. The team still has a strong roster, albeit one with some issues that will need addressing, but I don’t ever like to just point at the team that beat you and say, “we need to be like them.