It is difficult, if not impossible, to find fault with a team that is at or near the league leaders in runs, home runs and slugging percentage, and has been keeping the pressure on the Boston Red Sox, who in the first month of the season threatened to run off with the American League East the way Secretariat ran off with the 1973 Belmont Stakes.
But as the season grinds on, it is becoming clear that if the 2018 Yankees have an Achilles’ heel, it is their starting pitching.
With the exception of Luis Severino, the Yankee starters have steadily been going from bad (C.