The start to the 2018 season has been anything but optimal for a Yankees team that expects to compete for a World Series. The bullpen struggled out of the gate, some key offensive contributors fell into painful slumps, and the top of the rotation was just plain dreadful in Boston this past week. Things haven’t been pretty.
Still, it’s not necessarily the slumps or pitching woes that are most maddening when watching the Yankees at this point. Slumps happen, and we have already seen Giancarlo Stanton and Gary Sanchez begin to break out of their hitting hibernation.