One hundred and three regular season wins.
An AL East title for the first time in seven years despite expensive and talented broken bodies on the IL for long stretches.
A luxury cruise through the ALDS.
Plus a convincing road win to start the ALCS.
After all that this is what the Yankees are facing: They must beat the Astros three straight — with the final two in Houston — to cop the ALCS and advance to the World Series. That isn’t impossible but only a sucker would bet on it happening.
Fair or not the Yankees are judged by World Series rings and the baseball obit writers won’t treat Aaron Boone’s club kindly unless they stun the universe and take three in a row from AJ Hinch’s well-balanced outfit.