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Top eight takeaways from MLB’s first half

Aaron Judge's performance is one of the top takeaways from the 2017 MLB season thus far.

Are things back to normal in New York?

There have been exceptions, but the general status quo in Big Apple baseball has had the Yankees as the dominant team, with the New York Mets coming in second. One of those exceptions has been the last few years.

The Bronx Bombers have made the playoffs only once since getting swept out of the 2012 ALCS, and that was a loss in 2015’s Wild Card Game. In Queens, meanwhile, the Mets won the National League pennant in 2015 and returned to the playoffs in 2016.

That trend has reversed in 2017.

Led by Judge and an overall strong youth movement, the Yankees have been one of the junior circuit’s best teams in 2017. They’ve been atop the American League East standings for most of the year. While a recent cold run has knocked them to second place, the Bombers still occupy the American League’s top Wild Card spot by two games.

The Mets have struggled. They’ve been under .500 for most of the season, are 11.5 games behind the National League East leading Washington Nationals, and are 10.5 games out of the second Wild Card spot.

The tide in New York baseball is certainly shifting, and shifting to a familiar status.

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