June 12, the New York Yankees They held an impressive record of 42 wins and 25 losses, to comfortably lead the East Division of the American League.
Two months later, the Yankees (60-54) are barely as a third wild card in the postseason classification zone.
The team’s debacle, which started the campaign with a devastating step, has been monumental.
Suddenly, the bates cooled, even that of Aaron Judge, who came to dominate eight offensive leaderships in average, hits, home runs, scored and driven races, average embased (OBP), slugging and PAHO, and was outlined as unanimously winner of his third most valuable player prize of the young circuit.
After spending a brief stay in the list of injured, Judge is still first on average, scored, OBP, PAHO and slugging, but he has seen how Cal Raleigh, from the Seattle sailors, has taken advantage in the race for the MVP, with his leadership in shoes and towed.
But, above all, the body of relief has failed, those in charge of preserving advantages in the matches.
Devin Williams arrived with bombs and saucers from the Milwaukee brewers, where the Trevor Hoffman Award for two years was in a row to the lowest off -forefits of the National League.
But the stripes have weighed too much to Williams, who has seen how his effectiveness has gone from 1.25 in 2024 to 5.44 in 2025, with wasted rescues and defeats in meetings that had to end in victories.
For a while he lost his closing post, but recovered him by injuring Luke Weaver.
To make matters worse, in the last minutes of the deadline to make changes, the franchise “reinforced” the bullpen with the raised Camilo Doval, David Bednar and Jake Bird, and the same day of their debut, between the three allowed seven clean in two innings and one third, in one of the most devastating defeats in the history of the franchise, 13-12 on Friday, August 1 on Miami.
The demanding fans of the team, not only in New York, but around the world, ask for the heads of the general manager Brian Cashman and the Manager Aaron Boone, who have long been in a franchise whose goal is to win the World Series, no more, or less.
Cashman has been in office since 1998 and has already exhausted his ability to build winning teams.
With Boone, the directive has been extremely condescending, because in eight campaigns he still did not contribute the long -awaited World Series number 28.
Joe Torre, who won four crowns (1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000) and also took the team to two other October classics (2001 and 2003), was fired in 2007, after seven years without a title.
The old George Steinbrenner must be stirring in his grave, while his son Hal has not shown the momentum and the winning desire of the Boss.
These Yankees, even when they still have time to recover and get into the playoffs, do not look championable.
It is seen in the body language of the players in the Dugout, in the filin that is breathed in the field, things unable to measure through the sacrosanct knowledge, this novel way of seeing baseball as an exact science, so far from reality.
And while the Yankees, especially their body of reliefs, fail day by day, of the opposite trench, from its half -red archnesons of Boston, the Cuban missile, Aroldis Chapman, smiles with malice and savor its revenge.
