Deep breath. This is the hard time to take one. For two-thirds of teams the season ends in late September with usually a long runway to prepare for it. But if it ends in October, suddenly, after such laser focus on every pitch, the pain, the anger, the reflex to want to blow up a roster is intense.
So this from an MLB executive Sunday morning less than 12 hours after Jose Altuve walked off the Yankees into winter:
“Man, we are going to talk about how to fix the Yankees. They are terrific. They won 103 games.