In most years, an ALDS exit being followed by the Yankees making it fairly obvious that running it back is their play with the roster would be headline news.

To some, this offseason is shaping up to be a disaster, bringing back players such as Trent Grisham and Cody Bellinger who will likely see their OPS+ numbers regress from the year prior.

It’s not unfair to worry about rolling out the same roster that got trounced by the Blue Jays, but I also believe this 2025 season wasn’t a year full of poor decisions and bad process.

Along the way, New York made mistakes that led to them not winning the American League East, but ultimately those mistakes weren’t the ones that cost them the ALDS as a whole.

In any public setting, Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman praised the roster they assembled las

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