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For the New York Yankees, the 2023 season was painful in ways both figurative and literal.
The literal aspect of the Bronx bane was the pain itself -- in the form of an avalanche of injuries. One by one players fell, and so did the Yankees in the American League standings. After a preseason filled with the usual high hopes, baseball's most successful franchise limped home in fourth place, barely clearing the .500 mark it has exceeded for more than three decades.
If this outcome did not feel so familiar, perhaps ever-forgiving New Yorkers would have dismissed the campaign as bad luck and turned the page.