The 2019 season is not going as planned for the Yankees, but their B-Team, surprisingly won’t stop winning. Despite all the adversity, the Yanks hold the third-best record in the American League.
No other team in the majors have accumulated as many significant injuries as the Bronx Bombers. These turn of events made me re-consider a controversial comment made by baseball historian and statistician Bill James.
“If the players all retired tomorrow, we would replace them, the game would go on; in three years it would make no difference whatsoever,” James said. “The players are NOT the game, any more than the beer vendors are.