In his recent “The Mayor’s Office” episodes, Casey has discussed the player movement around the league and touched on Soto’s impact. During those segments, he provided some dubious rationalization for Yankees fans on why losing Soto, who got 15 years and $765 million from the Mets, won’t hurt so much.

General manager Brian Cashman isn’t about to declare a postseason in which the Yankees lost an all-time great an unmitigated success. He’s too smart for that. So we’ll do it for him.