We are conditioned to change. We expect it. Baseball is a transient business, and the characters are ever-evolving. The Yankees were last in the American League Championship Series two years ago, and they came damn close to making it through. They were up 3-2 in games heading back to Houston, and the Astros were good enough to win the World Series two weeks later.
So logic says: Those Yankees might’ve been good enough, too.
And yet when you look back 103 weeks, it is difficult to believe just how different things are for the Yankees – better, in many areas, at least on paper.