The Yankees haven’t hid their philosophy that the playoffs are loaded with parity, and the goal is to get into the dance and hope the chips fall in their favor once October begins.
After watching a week of playoff baseball, C-Mac says Brian Cashman and company might have a point.
“While I do think the crapshoot line is kind of overblown, look at what’s going on right now,” C-Mac said. “Tell me again how it’s not a crapshoot. You’re pointing to the one team who has consistently performed well year in and year out in the playoffs, the Houston Astros…they are the one team that consistently does it. The Dodgers don’t consistently do it. They are down 2-0 to the Arizona Diamondbacks. This Rangers team struggled down the stretch, has a bullpen that couldn’t get an out in the regular season, and the Orioles coasted to the best record in the American League in early August, and they didn’t win a game.
“The Rays, all the winning they did…got swept. Look around at everything else. They’re a late home run away from losing in Atlanta as well and being down 0-2 in the series, who I think are in trouble in that series. ‘Who’s better than the Atlanta Braves? Look how smart they are, they do it better than anyone else?’ What if they lose back to back years in the NLDS? You don’t think this sport is a crapshoot, when they win a World Series without Acuna, but can’t make it out of the NLDS without him? It is a bit of a crapshoot.”
The Rangers demolished the Orioles despite finishing with 11 less wins than Baltimore in the regular season, while the Diamondbacks are on the cusp of sweeping a Dodgers team that many expected to be a perennial contender. Still, despite that parity, C-Mac says there are some holes in how the Yankees execute their philosophy.
“The problem with the Yankees calling it a crapshoot,” C-Mac said. “It’s one thing to call it a crapshoot, but another thing to consistently prove that you are not a good postseason team, and you are have a core that consistently underperforms in the postseason.”
