The last time the Yankees finished in last place was in 1990, when owner George Steinbrenner was banned from baseball and they fielded a laughably bad team full of free agent busts, minor leagues from a depleted farm system, and Don Mattingly. The current Yankees find themselves in the cellar, the latest point of the season they have been in last since that 1990 season. However they aren’t laughably bad, they’re a team ravaged by injuries that has been very mediocre.
The Yankees have lost 21 of 35 games since Aaron Judge landed on the Injured List in early June - only three American League teams have played worse during that stretch.