After the crushing loss in game five of the ALDS to the Tampa Bay Rays, it’s time to reflect on the season. It feels like a lifetime ago that Gerrit Cole signed the richest deal for a starting pitcher in MLB history with the Yankees back in December, a deal that put the team that made it to the ALCS last year the overwhelming favorites in the American League. But alas, the Bombers fell short of their ultimate goal, again.
If you told a Yankee fan back in January that their team would lose to the Rays in five games in the ALDS, you would have been mercilessly laughed at.