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Instead of the season ending with sounds of champagne bottles popping in a raucous celebration, a familiar soundtrack played within the Yankees’ clubhouse late Wednesday night: packing tape breaking up the silence as players filled boxes with their belongings while others tried to explain away another October disappointment .

Concrete answers for why the Yankees fell short of their ultimate goal for a 16th straight year were not easy to come by – other than the Blue Jays simply beating them in all facets of the game throughout the ALDS.

The teams needed a tiebreaker to determine the AL East during th

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