Remainder Of July
Joe Girardi better hope his aging starts rested up big time over these past four days. Right out of the gates, the Yanks will have the Red Sox for three, the first-place Baltimore Orioles for four, and the top team in baseball which is the San Francisco Giants.
All 10 of those pivotal and telling games will be at Yankee Stadium prior to a trip to Houston.
That very span between July 15 and July 24 and their record in those games will likely determine whether the Bronx Bombers will be buyers or sellers at the August 1 trade deadline. With that said, the slate of match-ups can easily alter the overall outcome of the 2016 campaign.
Immediately, the Yankees will have to vamp up the intensity. The stress level of the games will be of postseason intensite maybe not on the fans, but on the 25-man roster. A .500 team will have their fate hanging in the balance in the middle of July.
After the Houston series which follows the home stand, they will finish up the post-All-Star July stretch in Tampa. There is simply no time for setbacks, only steps forward.
