There’s no sugarcoating it: this has been a hellish week for the Yankees and their supporters. The bats were nowhere to be found in the recent losses to the Orioles. Those games in particular highlighted a strategy that has frustrated Yankees fans during Aaron Boone’s tenure as manager. By that, I mean the inflexible adherence to rest schedules.
For the record, I’m not placing the blame for this methodology on Boone. In fact I believe he has very little control over it at all. The increasing reliance on analytics to dictate team management has taken a lot of the decision making power out of Boone’s hands.