This yr’s Yankees, who received three whole playoff video games and didn’t escape the division sequence, are higher than the AL champs of 2024.
Final yr’s crew obtained a cakewalk to the World Sequence having to face the form of AL Central patsies — Kansas Metropolis and Cleveland — that the Yankees have mauled through the Aaron Decide period. The Royals had been beneath .500 final yr when you eliminated the 12-1 mark they posted towards the 121-loss White Sox.
This isn’t that daring a press release, actually. The 2017, 2019 and 2022 Yankees additionally had been higher than the 2024 Yankees and every fell quick within the ALCS to the Astros.
And there’s the commonality — it’s in regards to the competitors. In some unspecified time in the future, these Yankees face an October opponent that doesn’t wilt at their presence and outplays them. It was within the World Sequence final yr and the division sequence this season. Giancarlo Stanton, as sage a presence as these Yankees have, famous after elimination that, “The gap you go is de facto the timing and the execution of those video games.”
