For the near-decade that Aaron Boone has been manager of the New York Yankees, fans have been able to memorize the script of every season with near-perfect accuracy. They play well, then they struggle, then they rally to reach the playoffs, but lose their way in the postseason en route to a crushing defeat. The magic of sports—and, less romantically, the sheer mathematical variance of baseball—is meant to thwart the I’ve-seen-it-already musings of the cynics, but the Yankees have proven those cynics right each year.
Perhaps the largest and most frustrating throughline in the Boone era has been the the extended, one-to-two-month team-wide…
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