For quite some time now, the topic of strikeouts in modern baseball has enraged fans on both sides of the baseball divide. To traditional fans, there is nothing worse than a strikeout and the modern game is sacrilegious because it allows them to happen without consequence. To the analytically-minded fan, we often hear that strikeouts don’t matter and that the data backs that up. (For what it’s worth, I’m somewhere in the middle of all this nonsense — that should soon be apparent.)
As it pertains to the Yankees, though, the strikeout discourse gets even messier.