Hal Steinbrenner has promised a thorough post-mortem this offseason to delve into why the Yankees missed the playoffs for the first time since 2016.

Of course, the Yankees owner has offered a version of this annually once the club is bounced from the playoffs.

This plays a little like when teams say they did their “due diligence” on an issue. For example, I am sure the Yankees would say they did their “due diligence” on Carlos Rodon, yet here he is with the second-worst ERA ever for a Yankees pitcher who made at least 14 starts in a season while combining injury (to his body) and insult (to both fans and to the pitching coach).

What will be different this time is Steinbrenner pledged to bring in an outside firm to audit his operation, noting analytics in particular. The way the Yankees have been duped in so many other areas, Steinbrenner needs to be careful he is not being provided more snake oil by someone good at taking his money and bad at solving his problems.