Yankee elimination (postmortem)

The New York Yankees had an up and down season, with many highs and lows.  After a terrible month of April in which they got to eight games under .500 they rebounded nicely to come into todays last game of the season at 84-77 and on the outside looking into the playoff picture.  Its hard to rebound from a month where you almost go 10 games under and they almost did, if they had gone 6-5 instead of 3-8 on their recent road trip they would be in the mix.  Management felt this team was out of it in late July and traded away three key cogs in Beltran, Miller and Chapman and then A-rod was released and the kids came up like Judge, Sanchez and Austin.  The youth movement signaled a rebirth of sorts as the team started winning and went 13-9 in August and got as high as 12 over .500. However 12 was the high water mark for this team as they could never get over the hump.  You can't win a championship in April but you can loose it.  After today Teixeira will retire and the organization will know more about some of these kids heading into spring training.