CARLSBAD, Calif. — Really, Yankees?
You’re bringing back Brett Gardner and CC Sabathia for 2019? Why not go after Jerry Hairston Jr. and Eric Hinske, too, to give it more of a “2009 celebration” vibe?
It’s almost as if you don’t realize you went 70-92 this past season.
Wait, what?
(Does some Googling.)
Oh, you went 100-62? Then carry on.
As Reverend Lovejoy learned in a 1997 episode of “The Simpsons,” constancy doesn’t rally the masses. To the contrary, it often infuriates them. But constancy can work well for these Yankees with these two moves, their opening salvos of this Hot Stove campaign.