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For New York Yankees, it is always the World Series or Bust.
Of course, the Bronx bombers have 27 titles in their name, and that includes a record drought from 18 years from 1978 to 1996. But, after a new dynasty he won four titles in five years, expectations changed once more.
The Yankees, even so, are a perenmpted perennial team, not ending less than .500 since 1993. The former MLB star Alex Rodríguez knew everything about expectations when he went from the Texas Rangers to the Yankees in 2004.
Rodríguez made the postseason in all but three of its seasons with the Yankees (not including when the 2014 season was lost due to the suspension). But today, he is part of the owner of Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx.
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The New York Yankees gardener, Aaron Judge, reacts after hitting a Grand Slam of the Boston’s Red Sox Relief launcher, Cam Booser, during the seventh inning of the game in the Yankee Stadium in New York on September 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
And while he was in the diamond, anything less than a title was a failure, he admits that, as owner, “you have to adjust” your expectations.
“At the end of the day, it is very difficult to win, and there are so many different resources. The days when the Yankees win four of five years, those days have long passed, because the business models have changed, people compete from a different point of view, the structures of the league are different, whether it is the luxury tax in baseball, there are different elements that are pressing and withdrawing, what you are pressing as a voilla of news.” More being one of the sports of the most respected organizations to treat their fans impeccably, their players or organization, and then their partners, their sponsorships and things like that, and then having a consistent winner who has an opportunity to attack every year. Therefore, I think that when you think and seek in search of Bet-oom, without the behavior of an organization of an organization only in white and white and white and white victories. “
But the Yankees still have Judge All-Star Aaron, who, if not for the José Altuve of the Houston stars in 2017, would compete for his fourth MVP award. Their regular season numbers are surprising, but so are their postseason statistics … in the opposite direction.
Since the beginning of the 2022 season (entering Thursday), the judge has maximum MLB in the war (30.9), home runs (178) and PAHA (1,124). But in October, he has hit alone .205 with an OPS of .768.
Rodríguez was polarizing in New York since the first day: it was the Superstar Campocorto with the largest sports contract of all time that did not praise exactly the Yankees Great Derek Jeter in an infamous event now infamated, while the judge is much more universally loved, being a yankee of his own harvest.
However, that love is not unanimous due to Judge’s postseason struggles. And if you want to be forever in the tradition of the Yankees, you judge “need” to find success in October, according to Rodríguez.
“I want to say, probably I am the only type that can answer this from a personal experience more than anyone,” said Rodríguez, who had notorious in autumn with the bombers before taking the Yankees to his title of the 2009 World Series.
Alex Rodríguez reacts after hitting during the Los Angeles Angels at Yankee Stadium in New York on August 13, 2013. (AP)
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“I can tell you that for me, 2004 was just an absolute debacle, climbing 3-0 against the [Boston] Red socks and then lose four in a row. And for five years, I basically did not sleep comfortably, up to five years later in the ’09, we brought it home and dropped the hammer. So I think you need a moment like that. I think one will get. I think being part of the Yankees and that tradition is that you are going to get cracks every year. So that is on your side, the talent is on your side, and the more shifts, the more repetitions you get, the possibilities increase. And when I do, it will be a huge victory for everyone, and it will be an elephant of the back. “
However, the Yankees did not do exactly well in their rematch of the World Series last week against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Two of the three games dropped, including a contest where 18-2 were defeated (the two Yankees races reached only Judge Judge Homers).
Rodríguez is a member of Lysol, who cleans the stench, and the Yanks could certainly have used some in Chavez Ravine de los Angeles. The former Yankees slugger recently surprised a local referee in Miami Beach with a little Lysol.
“The referees are unrecognized heroes of the game, and it was great to show my appreciation for the work they do inside and outside the field,” he said. “Lysol is simply an incredible company to associate. We have had a great association, and one of the things we want to do is have an impact on the community and recognize people who are often not recognized.”
The impact of a player that the Yankees are certainly being lost is that of the right -handed pitcher Gerrit Cole. And although the rotation has been a pleasant surprise, even with the surgery of Tommy John de Cole and the rookie of the year of Luis Gil, Latinoly, an incomplete team of the Yankees is not a rival for the renowned champions of the World Series, Rodriguez thinks.
Mookie Betts, on the left, and Freddie Freeman of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrate after scoring against the New York Yankees during the fifth entry of game 5 of the World Series at the Yankee Stadium in New York on October 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
“I think if you get away, I think it is obvious to me with enough data points that the National League is much higher than the American League. So that is a macro thought. And obviously, the Dodgers have the number of the Yankees,” Rodriguez said. “It was great that they could save the series at least win a game and not be swept. But look, when you have someone like Gerrit Cole Hurt, the Yankees can overcome some pedestrian teams in the American League, but it is obvious that when you play Dodgers, you need your complete team and then some, and even that cannot be sufficient.”
