{"id":565202,"date":"2026-02-11T00:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/565202\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:56:15","slug":"why-this-yankees-do-over-wont-be-a-repeat-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/565202\/","title":{"rendered":"Why this Yankees&#8217; do-over won&#8217;t be a repeat performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 Baseball\u2019s most high-profile franchise is about to execute the most high-profile do-over in sports history. Of course, not everyone\u2019s thrilled about that.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no surprise fans aren\u2019t overly enthused that the Yankees are \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/09\/sports\/yankees-begin-spring-training-with-plenty-of-familiarity\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">running it back<\/a>,\u201d as they say. And this is maybe the most extreme case of running it back in MLB history, with all five free agents signed off their own 2025 roster, and 24 of 26 players back from the team that produced decidedly mixed results in October, including a memorably bad division series defeat to the rival Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p>Fans don\u2019t have that great new star to follow, and barring injury, there isn\u2019t room for a big-time prospect, either. But here\u2019s one vote that the results of the games may change even if the names haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>First, let\u2019s do a semi-quickie review of how they formed this very familiar roster, which is 90-plus percent the same as the one ushered out of the postseason derby by a Blue Jays team that scored a run a game in a lopsided ALDS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 Baseball\u2019s most high-profile franchise is about to execute the most high-profile do-over in sports history. Of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,2281,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,428,151,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-565202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-gerrit-cole","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkyankees","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-spring-training","18":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116049279935319594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}