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Fair enough. I can understand the sentiment,

True on Grisham and Goldschmidt, I think serious regression is in the cards for both. Rice is in his second year and he looks to have improved a lot, though probably not to the tune of .930 OPS. I think he can finish the year in the .800s though. Weaver and Fried are both all star caliber players. There will probably be some regression since their current ERAs are ridiculous, but it's not like them pitching really well is a shock. On the flip side the Yanks also have players seriously underperforming who could improve. Bellinger should snap out of his funk at some point. Jazz (when he returns) probably won't run a batting average of. 180 with a 37% K rate all year. Devin Williams will hopefully improve upon his 10 ERA. Schmidt has gotten a few starts under his belt since coming back from injury and appears to be rounding into form. So all in all I don't think the team as a whole is outperforming expectations.

Ha maybe. Or maybe I've seen enough seasons to know better. Separately, they had this stat on Judge during yesterday's game that was pretty absurd.

March/April are usually pretty unreliable indicators for the rest of the season, so I'm not buying into the team's offensive uptick just yet. But Judge doing what he's doing is just more of the same.

F*** tax day. Had to make a $15K payment to the IRS this morning. Maybe I should've held off in hopes that the IRS gets dismantled.

As someone mentioned above, men's mental health is very often overlooked and even downplayed. How many times have we heard "man up", "don't be a crybaby", "suck it up", etc. when dealing with an issue? If you can't talk about it then it can bottle up, and for some lead to an extreme scenario down the line, like the one Duran detailed. If that trigger didn't fail then the media would have been having a different conversation about Duran. There would be narratives about how he had mental issues, was weak, couldn't handle the pressure.

Sox are heading to Baltimore next. That's a hard series to win. 2-5 start seems like a possibility. Teams can't win the season in March/April, but they can certainly lose it if they dig a big enough hole. However it's still March so I don't think any team should be worried yet.

Not worried about his elbow. Sure maybe it will explode on the mound, but I won't worry until it happens. Are you worried about Crochet's durability? He's thrown less than 200 innings in the last 3 seasons combined but will be expected to throw 180-200 innings this season. Pre-worrying about injuries ain't my style and sure we could worry about these things, but I'd rather wait and see what happens. I like Bellinger and think he will fit YS really well. Goldy is meh, but he should be an upgrade over last year's version of Rizzo. Probably the biggest variable on offense will be full seasons of Dominguez/Wells/Rice and if they develop more this year. Losing Soto hurts but I think the Yanks can still have a top 10 offense if things go right (which they usually don't).

I am here don't worry. Stanton injury was predictable so I don't think it hurts as much as the pitching injuries. Losing Cole is a huge blow. The starting pitching was the strength of the team, and now it's pretty mediocre until Gil/Schmidt return. AL East is still winnable but it will probably be tightly contested all season. That said, the Sox are still an unknown quantity. They certainly have a lot of potential to win the division and even the AL. Their pitching is pretty beat up too so their depth will be tested. They are also relying on a lot of young players which could go great (if they progress as planned) or bad (if they don't develop as planned). But that's the story with a lot of teams.

Yep Yanks were relatively healthy last year but the odds of it happening two years in a row were doubtful. The AL should be interesting this year with no seemingly great team.

The Sox's roster looks pretty good this season. Crochet takes their rotation up a notch, and the high number of young promising hitters in your system is concerning to me.

I know this is a Red Sox site, but you're either trolling or didn't watch much of the Yanks if you think last year's version of Rizzo is better than anybody, and likewise Verdugo (both are currently jobless) . Even Jazz is an upgrade over last year's version of Gleyber. Losing Soto is of course the biggest loss and the other offensive upgrades won't make up for that loss.

I would say that I expect the Yankees to be worse this season. Offensively they will probably struggle many games. Judge can only do so much. Stanton is in limbo. Bellinger and Jazz will probably be above average hitters. Everyone else is a question mark. Who knows what to expect from a 36 year old Goldschmidt (at best average production, and at worst a repeat of 2024 Rizzo), Wells was carried by two good months last year so who knows what his output will be, we're still waiting for Volpe to turn into an at least average hitter, and then we're hoping some combination of the kids (Dominguez/Rice/Cabrera/Peraza/Periera) figures it out this season. The pitching should be better (assuming good health). On paper the rotation can go toe to toe with any other group in the league. And they better perform that way because they probably won't get a ton of run support. Not worried about the bullpen, they should be solid. Williams/Weaver at the end of the bullpen is elite, and then everyone else is at least average. One thing the Yankees do every year is produce a good bullpen, even with a bunch of nobodies. The defense automatically improves without Soto & Rizzo's corpse at least. Baserunning too. I would project the Yanks to finish with somewhere between 89-92 wins.

No clue, but just from looking at the stats you can see a clear dip in his production after the news came out in Nov 2019.

But the cheating wasn't uncovered until after the 2019 season

Did he bring his trash can with him? His WAR decreases by like 50% without it.

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I don't know if "mirror" is the word I'd use. They both made high impact acquisitions in Crochet/Fried. But after that Boston hasn't done much except add a couple of guys to the back end of the roster. Maybe they'll sign Bregman to try and salvage their lackluster offseason. But it appears that they're going to continue operating like a mid market team.

He should be ready just in time to trade away at the deadline

No write up on the Rays? I guess teams without a stadium don't count.

Here's his Baseball Savant page https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/luis-gil-661563?stats=statcast-r-pitching-mlb And here's his percentiles. Great stuff, not great control. Expected BA against of. 208 which is 86th percentile.

Seems like Yanks/Sox have been less averse to making trades with each other these past few years. Sox are looking for a starter and Yanks are looking for a first baseman. A Luis Gil for Casas trade would work for both teams.

This is a good trade for the Sox IMO. They just landed a guy who has arguably the best stuff in baseball. Sure it's risky, but so is paying any pitcher these days.

That was quite painful