Aaron Decide: Yankees Will ‘Occasion Laborious’ After Clinching AL East in MLB Playoff Bracket

The New York Yankees clinched the AL East title on Thursday after a dominant 10-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles, placing the cherry on prime of what has been an excellent common season.

Whereas they nonetheless have the postseason forward of them, Aaron Decide admitted that he will have fun the divisional title within the coming days.

“We’re gonna celebration exhausting, so I would take a day without work,” Decide mentioned after the win. “We’ll see.”

If there is a member of this yr’s crew who deserves to celebration, it is Decide. He leads the majors in house runs with 58 and RBI with 144 and has the third-best batting common at .325. On Thursday, Decide prolonged his house run streak to 5 video games as he nears his American League document of 62 house runs with three video games to play.

However the crew captain was humble after clinching the divisional title, crediting his teammates for getting the Yankees so far.

“It is all the pieces, you already know. Nevertheless it’s simply the beginning,” he mentioned. “We have got a particular group right here that is put a whole lot of exhausting work in all the best way from the offseason. To come back so far and be capable of win this division, the hardest division in baseball, I am simply pleased with this group that now we have. It is a particular group.”

Only a season in the past New York completed 82-80, its fewest wins in a full season since 1992. Now the Yankees seem like considered one of—if not the most effective—crew in baseball and wish to carry their momentum into the postseason.

As a lot success as Decide has had in his profession, he is nonetheless in search of his first World Sequence look. He is been part of a number of profitable Yankees groups, however this yr’s crew appears poised to be the group that snaps a 14-year World Sequence drought.

Securing a bye within the playoffs is definitely a step in the correct course.