Who can beat the Yankees in the playoffs? The Angels are all I can think of. The Rays if they get in. Maybe the Red Sox if they get lucky. The Phillies in the NL, maybe the Dodgers.
lol u asked who can beat the Yankees in playoffs and you mentioned 5 teams... i'd say of that bunch only the Angels but imo the Yankees are still better than them
I would agree and go further in saying the Yankees right now are by far the best team in baseball. What they are doing they are doing in the AL east. One more win this weekend would be nice but I think the division is over now anyway. If the Yankees only went 20-20 over the last 40 games (and that isn't going to happen), Boston would have to go 28-13 over their last 41 just to tie them (and that isn't going to happen either). Hope we get one of these two games in at least. Looks like Bill will be right off the coast of New England at 4 PM today.
What are you talking about now? To come into the year with arguably the better overall pitching staff, a lineup at least comparable, and to start off the way they did, just to miss the playoffs completely, is more than enough pain for me. I don't need to see them crushed on the last day of the season (though I wouldn't complain if it happened.) Exactly. ---------------------- As for who can beat us, the team to beat is still the Angels. Until we prove we can beat them in a series, they're still our Achilles heel. We still have 4 games left against them too. 1 is a makeup of a PPD game at home. The rest are the tail end of our final regular season road trip.
Maybe I'm one of the few left but I still like the chances for the Sox this year. They play most of there games at home and in the playoffs I think Beckett/Lester/Buchholz would make them very competitive in any short series. I think the wild card is easily in reach. Tampa can't get out of its own way this year and I'm not sold on Texas. They are have a .482 winning % on the road and 26 of their remaining games are away. Today might be ugly though. Tazawa could easily get lit up and the team could look like shit for a second straight day.
I think getting there is going to be a major concern, but if they do the Sox are a team built to win in October. Beckett and Lester pitching 4-5 games in a series is a recipe for success. Hopefully they can just get there.
I absolutely loved this piece comparing Dustin Pedroia and Robinson Cano from the exemplary Yankees blog River Ave. Blues. It touches on one of my major pet peeves about baseball media (that all white players under 6'0" are "scrappy" and all black/hispanic players under 6'0" are "untalented.")
In a way it's kind of insulting to the talent of a guy like Pedroia to say he's a "grinder" who maxes out on his meager talent with superior effort and hustle. He dominated one the competition in one of the best divisions in college baseball and was drafted in the second round. In the minor leagues he also had success at every level without exception. The reason he is who is he is because he is a freak of nature with unbelievable hand eye coordination that allows him to swing out of his heels every time yet remain a contact hitter. If anything Cano always had more question marks and was viewed as a worse prospect when he was coming up and has exceeded expectations far more than Pedroia.
