Kelly called the matchup with the Yankees a “mismatch from the get-go” on the Baseball Isn’t Boring show, insisting that the Yankees would be eighth or ninth in a re-ranking of the teams that made the postseason this year.

Aaron Boone doesn’t expect to ever get over how the 2024 World Series ended. “The sting of not finishing it off stays with you forever,’’ Boone said of the Yankees’ loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers, capped by the misery of Game 5 in the Bronx.

The New York Yankees are coming off their first World Series appearance since 2009. Although they lost the series to the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Yankees are back to their winning ways as they won the American League East by three games over the Baltimore Orioles.