It’s often said that baseball is a game of streaks. It’s also often said – and I know this to be true because literally every player says some version of this – that the key to success is consistency. In other words, the key to success is making a streaky performance less streaky.
Which brings us to the point of discussion: examining which Yankees are most prone to streakiness. There are a few different ways to look at this – you can look at the monthly splits of any of your preferred statistics – but we’re going to use tOPS+.