If you had pulled me aside this time last year and told me that all three of Nestor Cortes, Clay Holmes, and Jose Trevino would be representing the New York Yankees, the best team in the league, at the All-Star Game, I probably would have laughed in your face.
In that scenario, the “best team in the league” label likely would’ve required a bit of a suspension of disbelief on my part as last season was, by and large, an exercise in miserableness and dysfunction. But with a talented core of Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, and Gerrit Cole returning in 2022, I suppose it would’ve been somewhat possible, if not particularly probable.