The Yankees haven't clinched or won anything in 2020. Even at 9-3 they don't have the best record in the American League or in baseball, but they are being managed like they have everything wrapped up.

J.A. Happ can't start another game for the Yankees. After providing 30 mostly awful starts in 2019, Happ has continued his decline by laying two eggs to begin 2020. In two starts, Happ has only been pitched seven innings, while allowing eight earned runs, eight walks and three home runs.

The Yankees need to stop thinking Happ is going to get better and figure it out. He's not. It's time to put him in the bullpen and give his rotation spot to someone with the ability to get major league hitters out and someone with a future with the team.

In his third start as a Yankees, Gerrit Cole didn't have his best stuff and hasn't had it yet with New York. Despite this, he's 3-0 with a 2.55 ERA. Brett Gardner proved the super baseballs are still in play as he hit an opposite-field home run, a feat that seemed impossible for him prior to the change in the ball and Gio Urshela hit his third home run of the season. Aaron Boone tried to make it a game after the rain delay by choosing not to go to his elite relievers right away for the final nine outs, even with the Yankees having an off day on Tuesday because of inclement weather.

Neil Keefe and Mike Hurley of CBS Boston talk about the Red Sox’ abysmal starting pitching, watching this Red Sox team for a full season, revisiting the team’s decision to not sign Mookie Betts, the career progression of Rafael Devers and decline of Andrew Benintendi.

Another game, another win for the Yankees as their winning streak is now at five games after their 5-2 win over the Red Sox. Masahiro Tanaka was OK in his season debut, which was limited due to a pitch count, but Aaron Judge homered for the fourth straight game and Gio Ursheal hit the Yankees’ second grand slam in three nights to power the offense. The Yankees got 6 1/3 innings of two-hit, shutout pitching from the trio of Luis Avilan, Nick Nelson and David Hale to stifle the Red Sox.

It was announced that Tommy Kahnle will undergo Tommy John surgery, ending his season and likely his Yankees tenure, but the Yankees might have found their next elite bullpen arm on Saturday night.

The Yankees' home-opening 5-1 win over the Red Sox was their fourth straight, and given how bad this Red Sox team is, the Yankees should beat up on them all season. The Red Sox' lineup still boasts J.D. Martinez, Rafael Devers and Xander Bogaerts, but after that, there's not much. (Andrew Benintendi is part of the not much.) As for their pitching staff ... well, it's right there with the Orioles'.

Before the season, I said I was going to be patient and understanding and wouldn't get upset with Aaron Boone this season. I said I was going to accept his managerial ways even if they are at times confusing, frustrating and nonsensical. Well, it didn't even take five full games for me to scrap my plan. After Boone's bullpen management in Baltimore, I had no choice.

After two unexpected days off, the Yankees played again on Wednesday night and won again, beating the Orioles 9-3 to improve to 3-1 on the season. Why was Gerrit Cole out for the seventh inning at 90 pitches with a six-run lead and nine outs to go to a win? And why is the team not playing the everyday lineup in a season in which they have already had three days off in a week and could have additional days off at any day during this season? Yes, the Yankees won again, but these are relevant questions for a team that needs to finish first in the American League and get back to and win the World Series for the first time in more than a decade.

For as good as the Yankees were and are expected to be this season, Saturday night proved why I still have my doubts about them in the postseason. Without Luis Severino this season, the Yankees need James Paxton to be a front-end starter and they can't afford for him to have many other starts like his first.

Neil Keefe and Scott Reinen of Bronx Pinstripes talk about the Yankees’ season-opening win over the Nationals, Brett Gardner batting fifth in the lineup, Gerrit Cole’s Yankees debut, the new-look Giancarlo Stanton, Tyler Wade’s best game in the majors and the expanded postseason field.