New York Yankees have a legitimate right to bellyache about the team's processes and philosophy since 2012. We'd be the first to say they were struck with horrid luck and misfortune from 2001-2008, and sometimes that's the way it goes. But everything over the past decade and a half has largely felt self-inflicted.
Across the country, the Los Angeles Dodgers are morphing into their version of the 90s dynasty Yankees through flexing their financial power and making the right decisions, while New York is limiting its financial impact and making the wrong decisions.
But there's a big one Yankees fans need to let go, and it involves Yoshinobu Yamamoto.