The Yankees have been relegated to spending the last weekend of the regular season trying to impact other teams’ playoff chances, which they did with a 7-3 win over the Orioles on Saturday in The Bronx.
They don’t want to be in the same situation again a year from now, and in a meeting with his players prior to Friday’s loss to the Orioles, he made sure to put everyone on notice.
His message was fairly simple: “Just that there’s a lot of work to do to get to where we want, and there’s younger kids knocking on older players’ doors.