The Athletic | Chris Kirschner: It’s not like the Yankees can come out and say “we’re sunk,” so there is a lot of Lasso-esque chatter about belief and believing. But as Kirschner points out, outside of AL Cy Young frontrunner Gerrit Cole and Aaron Judge, who’s somehow playing on a bum foot, there just aren’t many players on the roster giving anyone a reason to believe. As he puts it, “a large reason the Yankees are a sub-.500 ballclub is because they have more players on their roster performing dramatically below their level of expectations and just a handful of players exceeding theirs.
Around the Empire: Yankees news - 8/18/23
