It’s safe to say that the 2022 Yankees season ended in humiliation for all parties involved, from the players to the executives to the fans. Thirteen years without a World Series appearance is bad enough for this particular organization — throw in their historic start to the regular season and subsequent collapse, culminating in getting swept by the Astros, and the whole ordeal would’ve been nigh-unbearable save for Aaron Judge’s record-breaking home run chase.
We’ve conducted countless postmortems on the season attempting to decipher where it all went wrong. Was it injuries?