Not everything about the offense has been bad, but the bits that are bad are the ones that sting most.
It's true the Yankees find themselves bogged in the offensive doldrums, but what we've witnessed over the past month hasn't been the team collapsing. Their second half looks positively heinous in comparison to Toronto's surge, but the reality is they've been more or less average. They're 14-12 in September, and they've scored 112 runs on the month and allowed 102. That's about as close to being the definition of .500 ball as it's possible to be.