The Yankees’ worst “New Years”

Photo by John Lamparski/Getty ImagesLast year on New Year’s Day, we rang in 2021 in part with this post on the Yankees’ best “new years.” It was a look at the years in which a change in the calendar also saw an improvement on the Yankees’ fortunes on the field.

In the 365 days since, we sat through one of the more annoying Yankees seasons in recent years. There will certainly be plenty of fan bases who would roll their eyes at a season that ended in a playoff appearance being called “annoying.” However, they were among the favorites in all of baseball going into the season, and then spent much of it looking very listless.

Now with so much of the roster seemingly in flex going into 2022 and a…