2017 has been a great season for the Yankees, even by their lofty standards, whne you come from nowhere to get within one game of the AL Pennant, it is an achievement. Thye have accomplished a NYC rebuild- which means you must keep an interesting and competitive product on the field while you break in a bunch of rookies and retreads.
The Yankees have drafted with luck and precision in recent years; Bird, Aaron Judge, Luis Severino, Dellin Betances, and Gary Sanchez form the bedrock of talent that can carry the team for the foreseeable three-five years-- a baseball eternity. They have more on the way with Clint Frazier and Gleyber Torres on offense, and Justus Sheffield on the starting rotation future's list.
They have patched together a solid all-around team with Todd Frazier, Starlin Castro and Didi Gregorious.
The problem remains the poor choices they made when giving long term deals to Chase Headley, Jacoby Ellsbury, CC CSabathia, and Masohiro Tanaka. But in their year of redemption, all of these players have performed well.
Sabathia has been spectacular- providing what they used to get from Andy Pettitte- savvy Lefty, big-game nerves of steel. If they are smart they will keep CC for as long as he wants to play on his painful knees.
Win or lose in this ALCS, they have given the Yankee fans a great thrill, and reason to pay for tickets next year. They have had a great year, and on the verge of something even greater, after all these are Yankees and Yankee fans, the adore the hardware-- 40 AL championships- simply wet the appetite for number 41.
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