The Yankees’ Nearly Teams: Part 4

For the past couple weeks, we here at Pinstripe Alley have been running our Champions Series, profiling the 27 World Series winning teams in Yankees’ history.

Those 27 teams are far from the only notable ones in franchise history, so as companion pieces, I’ve been looking at some of the teams that came brutally close to adding to that total. (Here is part one, and part two, and part three.) As we continue to go through the championship winners, here is a look at four more teams that nearly got there too.

Not a ton needs to be said on how close the ‘01 Yankees got to adding to the franchise’s World Series tally.

After coming back from down 0-2 on the road to upset the 102-win A’s in the ALDS,…