For a baseball season to begin in earnest, they must start the clock for real at Yankee Stadium.
Thursday, just past 1:05 p.m., Gerrit Cole will start that clock for the Yankees, the first of a 162-game adventure that the Yankees genuinely believe will end on the other side of the Macombs Dam Bridge and then due south, in the Canyon of Heroes. In the 100th anniversary year of their very first title — those ’23 Yankees finally figured out McGraw’s Giants, in six games, that October — they try to add a 28th banner to the deepest championship collection in North American sports.
“We like who we are as a team,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said late in spring training. “We liked how we played a good portion of last year. Obviously it didn’t end the way any of us wanted it to end, but that’s what our mission is this year. There are a lot of guys in that room who have a lot of belief in what we want to accomplish.” Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post
And there are a lot of guys in that room who ought to make that goal feasible. There is Cole, who sure seems due for a signature season in Year 4 as a Yankee. There is Aaron Judge, who had perhapsin the last 60 years or so, a year in which he was the signature force, by a wide margin, in the whole sport.
There is, of course, Anthony Volpe, and when the Yankees are introduced and trot out along the first-base line Thursday it is hard to imagine anyone other than Judge getting a louder greeting from the faithful than Volpe,Babe Ruth in 1923There are plenty of immediate hurdles, sure, since three-fifths of the projected five-man rotation will begin the season on the IL. There is Harrison Bader, last October’s unlikeliest hero, who is battling back from his own injury.
But there is still plenty to enjoy here, starting Thursday, under brilliant sunshine, in the crisp cold of late March. No need to stare out the window any more. Spring is here. The Yankees are back.
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