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In the past few weeks, we have written how often for baseball teams, it’s better to be lucky than good. And the Yankees this year have been extraordinarily lucky. Granted all great teams need some luck to perform as well as they do because that can be the difference that separates the World Series winner from other playoff teams.

Yesterday on The Bronx Pinstripes Show – which by the way is the best Yankees podcast out there and you should all listen to it, rate, review, and subscribe – Scott and Andrew talked about how great the Yankees have been in high leverage situations this season. They have a 146 wRC+ in high leverage situations which is best in baseball. The Astros are second at 118.…