TAMPA — Baseball’s most high-profile franchise is about to execute the most high-profile do-over in sports history. Of course, not everyone’s thrilled about that.
It’s no surprise fans aren’t overly enthused that the Yankees are “running it back,” as they say. And this is maybe the most extreme case of running it back in MLB history, with all five free agents signed off their own 2025 roster, and 24 of 26 players back from the team that produced decidedly mixed results in October, including a memorably bad division series defeat to the rival Blue Jays.
Fans don’t have that great new star to follow, and barring injury, there isn’t room for a big-time prospect, either. But here’s one vote that the results of the games may change even if the names haven’t.
First, let’s do a semi-quickie review of how they formed this very familiar roster, which is 90-plus percent the same as the one ushered out of the postseason derby by a Blue Jays team that scored a run a game in a lopsided ALDS.
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