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Ranking the New York Yankees in Late-Season Clutchness: 1-25

in a pennant race is traditionally a time when the best players on a team step up with their best performances.

So when considering how to rank the players most likely to be on a postseason roster, should the New York Yankees hang on and hold off the Baltimore Orioles and Tampa Bay Rays for the American League East crown or, at the very least, qualify for one of the two wild-card spots for the winner-take-all, single-game playoff opener, I tried to consider what a player has done in September and compare it to those same statistical categories over the course of their career.

There are many disputing theories about how to quantify a player’s so-called “clutchness.” In 2008, Eric Seidman of FanGraphs.com put forth the notion ...

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