Coach Steve's Corner

I grew up spoiled. I'll admit it. I spent my adolescence watching the Yankees dominate baseball in the late 90's and continue to compete into the 2000's.  I've experienced many postseasons where the Yankees were expected to win.However, this was a year where nobody expected the Yankees to do much. Many preseason projections had them finishing below .500. My optimistic self hoped for a Wild Card push at the very least back in April. We've gotten that and so much more. And still it continues. The Yankees were able to make that Wild Card push. In fact they ran away with the Wild Card and even made a last gasp effort at the division title going into the last weekend of the season. The 2017 regular season was an unexpected, fun-filled ride with some ups and downs but mostly lot of ups. Ups that the Yankees were never expected to reach. Yet here we are on October 17 and the Yankees are still playing baseball. Correct me if I'm wrong but the Yankees weren't sup...

Going into last night’s game I felt very good about the Yankees chances of beating Minnesota. On paper they had the better lineup and for as good as Ervin Santana was all year for the Twins, the Yanks had the better starter going in the form of Luis Severino. Severino had been masterful all season and is likely to finish in the top 3 in American League Cy Young voting. The only thing that worried me going in was the potential unpredictability of a one game playoff. Baseball is often an unpredictable game and in one game the best team doesn’t always win. Last night the better team did win but they did it in a very unprecedented way. The Yankees used a formula that perhaps only their team is built for. The good feeling that Yankees fans had going into the game was quickly erased when Brian Dozier took Severino yard on a high fastball to lead off the game. However, my feeling was it’s just a solo homerun. Nothing to worry about. Then things got bad real quickly when after giving up a tw...