Yankees: This wild stat proves Yankees offense belongs in back of AL East

The New York Yankees have been very bad in 2020. On offense. This is not just a recent slide.

Want to be jealous of every single other team in the American League East, Yankees fans?

I mean, you don’t, right? But at this point, you maybe have to be. You’ve got to resign yourself to jealousy.

The ’20 season has gone well for a number of AL East clubs, present company very much excluded. Sure, the Boston Red Sox are 15-29, but their stated goal is losing in the name of Kumar Rocker, hypnotizing their fans into thinking that being way, way under .500 without a generational talent in right field was where the compass was pointing all along.

Oh, but even those Red Sox have a higher team OPS than the Yankees, by the way. Figured we should mention that.

By, like, a lot.

Yes, the vaunted Yankees offense is the actual worst in the American League East. This is partially a product of their recent 5-15 slide, as well as the aftereffect of tens of thousands of damning injuries, but we’re encapsulating the whole season here.

New York ranks 14th overall in MLB with a .750 mark, inches ahead of the Astros, also struggling for a playoff berth in 15th place. The Rays are 12th, the Jays 10th, the Orioles ninth and the Red Sox, as abysmal as they are, leading the division in eighth place. 

The pitching really is that bad.

Of course, occasionally, the Yankees offense does show up in full force. And it’s on days like those when everything else that constitutes a baseball game goes wrong for them.

This current streak has certainly done a number on their positioning. Since Aug. 18, the Yankees are 28th in average across all of MLB, and tied for 27th in runs per game. The numbers are all terrible, and there’s no sugarcoating to be done.

But seeing them well behind the Red Sox, and also everyone else, and taking the entire season into account really stings in an entirely different manner. Even when things were good, they weren’t good enough.

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