Yankees have avoided drama while their identity is taking shape

You know what has been missing from the first 11 weeks of the Yankees season? That would be noise, other than the sounds coming off their bats.

There is still plenty of time for controversy to intrude on the season — who said, Marcus Stroman? — but through this juncture it’s pretty much been all peace and harmony.

Doesn’t always go that way in the Bronx.

“You want to eliminate distractions as much as you can,” manager Aaron Boone said before Saturday night’s game at the Stadium against the Red Sox. “You know they’re inevitable, sometimes they’re louder, sometimes they’re unseen. You’re always going to have things that pop up, baseball-related or otherwise, over the course of the year when you have a large family, a large group.