The New York Yankees entered Thursday as the best team in baseball. They have a 18-7 record and just broke off an outstanding 11-game winning streak. Though many may not have seen it coming, they have been head and shoulders above the competition in the American League. With the best record in the majors and the second-best run differential, trailing only the Los Angeles Dodgers, they have separated themselves early.
But it’s not the Dodgers, or division rivals like the Rays or Blue Jays, that I want to compare the Yankees to today. No, when digging into the numbers, and the teams’ philosophies, we can say that the 2022 Yankees look a lot like the 2021 San Francisco Giants.