If you find yourself watching this Yankees team disintegrate and thinking, "How is this ... the same season ... where all that other stuff happened?" you're certainly not alone. But don't absolve the New York Mets' extremely similar collapse while you're lost in thought just because they have a slightly larger cushion on the final Wild Card spot.
Yes, it really was this season where Juan Soto's return to the Bronx was a massive storyline, and the Yankees' Plan B leveled up in unison to steal a resounding victory in the first Subway Series.