From wild pitches with runners on third being responsible for an absurd number of runs to head-scratching, month-long implosions from All-Star closers and an inability to hit home runs from a lineup designed to, well, hit home runs, the 2021 season will be remembered as a bizarre one for the New York Yankees.
I know it feels like a lot of these storylines date back to the 2020 season, and some of them absolutely do. But in a way that only 2021 could muster, there are also a number of surprising outliers that have left me utterly baffled, genuinely surprised (in a good way!