As NJ.com’s Max Goodman noted after the Yankees latest loss, the Bombers are just 50-46 this season, 82-80 over their last 162 games, and just 102-98 over their last 200.
Evan wonders if this is just who this version of the Yankees are: a mediocre team that becomes a bad one without its best player.
“My worry for the Yankees is that this is who they really are,” Evan said. “If you look at the way they’ve played without Aaron Judge, they are six games under .500…since 2020, in the time that he’s missed, they’re a below-.500 team. that’s who they are.
“The good news is, when Aaron Judge is there, they win a lot of games. But that’s the problem. We can talk all about when Judge comes back, but we don’t know when he’ll be back, what he’ll be like when he does come back, or if the Yankees can survive until that day. here’s the reality: they are a below .500 team when Aaron Judge doesn’t play baseball, and if you go back to the second half of last year, in their last 162 games, the Yankees are an 84-win team. So isn’t is possible that this is who the Yankees really are?”
So, while some are waiting for the Yanks to inevitably wake up and turn things around, Evan says the fanbase needs to be prepared for the possibility of that not happening, since aside from spurts here and there, the Yankees have mainly been an average team in recent years.
“The idea that ‘They’re the Yankees, they’ll figure it out,’” Evan said. “That might not happen.”
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