To make it to your second champagne celebration, you have to make more right decisions than wrong ones. The Yankees aren’t batting 1.000, but today, as they prepare to head to Tampa Bay to face the Rays, it’s fair to say the Yankees made a lot of correct calls.

Here are just a few that catapulted them past the reviled rival Red Sox into a Division Series matchup that by all rights should decide the American League:

1. Signing Max Fried for $218M over eight years.

They came into significant cash after Juan Soto left for the record $765M, 15-year Mets deal, and Fried was the biggest expenditure and beneficiary. Many teams stay away from lengthy pitcher deals, and this was super long.

But Fried looks worth the pay today after shutting down the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium, holding them to one run over six innings in the Yankees’ wild-card series-clinching 9-2 victory.