the last time the yankees finished under.500 was 2014.
the last time the yankees finished under.500 was 2014.
when was the last time the yankees finished under .500?
2014
in , merrill began the season with columbus before getting the call to take charge of the new york yankees in june when bucky dent was fired as manager. merrill finished out what would be one of the worst seasons in yankees history. the yankees finished 67-95 (49-64 under merrill), dead last in the american league and second-worst in baseball. it was only the fourth time that the storied franchise had finished with the worst record in the league. however, merrill was not blamed for the debacle and was brought back for the season—the first time in four years that the yankees had a single manager for the entire season. however, after the yankees could only improve to 71-91, he was replaced by buck showalter prior to the 1992 season and served that season as a roving minor-league instructor.
stump merrill
from 1920 through 2003, the yankees won 26 world series championships and 39 pennants, compared to only four pennants for the red sox. in every year that the red sox won the pennant—1946, 1967, 1975 and 1986—they lost the world series 4–3, leaving them with no world series titles. during this time, the red sox finished second in the standings to the yankees on twelve occasions—in 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1949, 1977, 1978, and every year from 1998 to 2003. during the 84-year period, the yankees finished with a better regular-season record than the red sox 66 times, leading one sportswriter to quip that the yankees' rivalry with the red sox was much like the rivalry "between a hammer and a nail." the yankees finished second in the standings to the red sox twice, in 1986 and 1995.
yankees–red sox rivalry