NEW YORK -- There are no more excuses for New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi. All the farewell tours for the Yankee legends are a distant memory. The old guys are long gone, taking with them all the alibis. They let Girardi off the hook for leading his $200 million teams to only one playoff game since 2012 because it wasn’t his fault, as his teams often outperformed their run differential and subpar rosters.
But now Girardi has all the horses. He’s expected to win. It falls on him now because the team’s owner, Hal Steinbrenner, did his job.