NEW YORK — If I was one of the scouts who’s been gathering intel on the Yankees this month, I wouldn’t have much to add about Aaron Judge (home run machine), Juan Soto (auditioning for his payday) or Giancarlo Stanton (just got his October wake-up call.)

There is plenty of cause for celebration among New York Yankees players after they dispatched of the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday night, 10-1, to clinch the AL East division title. It has been a season-long war between these two teams,

The Yankees didn’t get the Gerrit Cole they expected for much of the season thanks to the inflamed elbow that sidelined him until mid-June. And even after his return, the results were mostly nothing like what they were a year ago,