The time has come. The 2023 Yankees’ season officially came to a close with the conclusion of their three-game series in Kansas City yesterday, but the clock really struck midnight a week prior, when they were eliminated.
This is the first time that New York has missed the playoffs since 2016 (only their fifth postseason absence in the last 28 years), and with just 82 wins, they are the worst Yankees team since 1992. They were lucky to extend their streak of consecutive winning seasons to 31, but not even the 2014 or 2016 Yanks came so close to a losing campaign.