The Yankees’ best reliever before he landed on the injured list last month — not to mention most of last season — he has returned with a long-ball issue that is not going away. 

After both made cameos off the bench Wednesday night, Trent Grisham and Austin Wells returned to the Yankees lineup Thursday.

As the Yankees packed their bags in the cramped visiting clubhouse at Rogers Centre, Aaron Boone stopped in briefly to speak to his team. 

As if the Yankees did not have enough problems on their hands, Clarke Schmidt walked off the mound after three innings.

As if the Yankees did not have enough problems on their hands, Clarke Schmidt exited his start Thursday after just three innings and 55 pitches.

It does not sound as if anything is necessarily imminent in terms of Jazz Chisholm Jr. moving back to second base and DJ LeMahieu shifting to third.

And just like that, in painstaking fashion, the Yankees’ lead atop the AL East is gone.

This one came in a five-run seventh inning and again included a critical catcher’s interference, with George Springer delivering the decisive blow on a grand slam off Luke Weaver as the Yankees got walloped by the Blue Jays, 12-5, in a holiday matinee.

It was not death by a thousand paper cuts for the Yankees, but almost. 

A day that began with a pair of Yankees injury concerns added another before the night was over.

It is the debate that has filled countless hours at bars, family rooms or stadiums: who are the greatest Yankees of all-time?

The votes are in for the Yankees version of Mount Postmore, as voted by our experts.