One narrative that seemed to follow the New York Yankees this entire 2019 campaign was a misguided one. The noted narrative was the 2019 New York Yankees were somehow a small ball team.
I’m sorry, but where on earth was it evident that the Yankees were a small ball team in 2019?
The collective batting average of the 2019 Yankees was .267. That’s above the league average for baseball as a whole in 2019, but not when you look at the offensive breakdown of that .267 team average. The team had 1,493 hits, per baseball-reference.