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Pin a calendar to the wall, close your eyes and throw a dart at it, and what date it lands on may be just about anywhere on the spectrum of emotions given the Yankees’ year to date.

Consider:

March 10: After a few days of tests and second opinions, the Yankees announce Gerrit Cole will undergo Tommy John surgery. This comes exactly one week after Luis Gil is diagnosed with a high-grade lat strain. The season is over before it even began, as two-fifths of the Yankees’ expected rotation is on the shelf for the foreseeable future.

March 29: Who needs pitchers when you have torpedo bats? The Yankees hit a franchise-record nine home runs in a 20-9 blowout of the Brewers, setting off a 72-hour craze over the new bats a few Yankees were using. The reactions ranged from calls to make the bats illegal to the rest of the league quickly trying to order them.