With less than one-tenth of the 2019 MLB season in the books, it’s clearly time to make definitive judgments about which Yankees turned themselves into legends during the offseason. Such overreactions are as fun as they are unfounded, and since we’re all short on optimism during this nightmare April, let’s go ahead and make way too much of the hottest starts to the year.
Of course, time will tell whose first two weeks were actually a sign of things to come, but perhaps the stats from this tiny sample size will allow us to peer into the future, or — at the very least — they’ll prove once and for all that such speculation is a complete waste of energy.