Last week I wrote about the That exercise was designed to look at the Yankees’ teams which struggled in the early 2000’s, done in by poor pitching and absolutely atrocious defense.
After missing the playoffs in 2008 to close out the old stadium, the team entered the new stadium with a bang. Huge free agent signings of CC Sabathia, AJ Burnett, and Mark Teixeira gave the team a boost and they won in the first year of the new stadium. So let’s repeat that same exercise, but this time from 2009-2016. I chose 2016 because that was the last season before the current Baby Bombers iteration of the Yankees.