Now that the series is over, holy smokes did the Red Sox get screwed by the hand of God through the 2nd half this season after July. What we saw these last two days is a significant downgrade over having: Game 1: Crochett Under a lineup with Roman, Curtis Mead, healthy Contreras, Mickey or Yoshida/Romy platooning at DH instead of...whatever we saw tonight...., Rafaela was injured, list just went on and on and on. They got a fantastic team that I respect a lot. I think Craig built a 93-94+ win team this season that got blasted by injuries. A team of: Roman OF Rafaela OF Wilyer OF Willson 1B Mead 2B Durbin 3B Story SS Romy/Yoshida DH Adley C Crochett Tolle Gray Suarez Bennett Easily wins 93-94+ and it's insane to me fans are ripping Breslow instead of just acknowledging how shitty of a situation it was for the Sox at the end of the year. The Yanks dealt with a FAIR share of impactful injuries. Obviously missing the best player, Stanton, Fried/Cole/Rodon/Weathers/Schmidt all for their own independent long stretches without play, a month without Belli, no Grish for a bit, etc.... And I think it says a lot that despite that, this team persevered to where they're at now. Plenty of underperformances to go around and plenty of weak spots in the lineup to fix in the offseason, but the pitching despite the injuries was unlike what we've seen before. In a just world, the Yankees and the Red Sox meet in the ALCS in the future with fully healthy clubs at full strength.