Aaron Boone made sure to remind all of us during Winter Meetings that his New York Yankees team and the Toronto Blue Jays had identical records during the 2025 regular season. Right, because this is what matters when comparing the two AL East powers, not the fact that Toronto thumped the Yanks in the ALDS.
Boone's attempt at a point was that the "gap" between the two teams isn't as wide as people think (or as wide as the postseason illustrated). The very idea of a Yankees manager bringing up regular season performance as an important metric says a lot about how far the franchise has fallen from its glorious throne of decades past, but that's another conversation.