AL East Thread

[soxfan1468927]

Fangraphs projects the AL East to be the only close race, and it's really close.

Yankees: 94-68, 5.22 RS/G, 4.41 RA/G
Red Sox: 93-69, 5.22 RS/G, 4.48 RA/G

Next closest division is the NL Central where they have the Cubs winning by 7 games.

 

[nynasty]

Fangraphs projects the AL East to be the only close race, and it's really close.

Yankees: 94-68, 5.22 RS/G, 4.41 RA/G
Red Sox: 93-69, 5.22 RS/G, 4.48 RA/G

Next closest division is the NL Central where they have the Cubs winning by 7 games.

Huh.

Not surprising at all that they project a dogfight, a little surprised they have them equal offensively, and the Yanks' pitching as better (not dramatically or anything, but still)

 

[nynasty]

Andujar just went deep again. Ho hum.

 

[cerealboi]

Nope. Still blocked. I think it's my job, but really weird how I was able to post in there no problem the 1st day, but not since.

Zig said to quit your job.

 

[cerealboi]

Andujar just went deep again. Ho hum.

Is he going to make the team? If he doesn't who's playing 3rd?

 

[nynasty]

Zig said to quit your job.

Don't tempt me!

 

[nynasty]

Is he going to make the team? If he doesn't who's playing 3rd?

If he stays down until April 27th, I believe, they get an extra year of control. Until yesterday, it looked like the plan was Torres and Andujar in AAA until the end of the month with the new addition Drury at 3rd and Wade at 2nd.

But if Andujar is just gonna hit HRs every day, it's gonna be tough to send him down, extra year of control or not.

 

[DirtDirtDirt]

Nasty

Cereal is talking badly behind your back on the other board


Ill take care of it

 

[cerealboi]

Yankees need to trade for Yankory Pimentel. Just because Yankory.

 

[DirtDirtDirt]

Fangraphs projects the AL East to be the only close race, and it's really close.

Yankees: 94-68, 5.22 RS/G, 4.41 RA/G
Red Sox: 93-69, 5.22 RS/G, 4.48 RA/G

Next closest division is the NL Central where they have the Cubs winning by 7 games.

They have the offense and pitching backwards

The Yankees offense is gonna shatter all time records this season

Everyone knows this

 

[tducey]

Going to be a fun summer watching the Yankees and Red Sox battle it out for the East again. Just like the late 90's early 2000's.

 

[nynasty]

They have the offense and pitching backwards

The Yankees offense is gonna shatter all time records this season

Everyone knows this

Might have our first 1000 run team since last century.

 

[nynasty]

Going to be a fun summer watching the Yankees and Red Sox battle it out for the East again. Just like the late 90's early 2000's.

or the late 70s

or the mid to late 40s

Baseball is at its best when these two are good.

 

[cerealboi]

Thank God for that second wild-card.

 

[Pure Steel]

or the late 70s

or the mid to late 40s

Baseball is at its best when these two are good.

Yup, a great rivalry every 40 years.....

 

[nynasty]

Yup, a great rivalry every 40 years.....

Late 70s was the best. The last time the players hated each other as much as the fans.

 

[Pure Steel]

Late 70s was the best. The last time the players hated each other as much as the fans.

The bad blood between Lee and Nettles apparently harkened back to comments made after a brawl between the two teams in an August 1, 1973, game. In that game, it was Thurman Munson who bowled over Fisk at home plate and sparked a brawl between the two catchers and Yankees shortstop Gene Michael. Fisk came out of the melee with a scratch on his face that caused Lee to ask him, “Did Michael scratch you with his purse?”2 Lee continued to antagonize the New Yorkers as he persisted with this theme and stated that all of the Yankees were “like a bunch of hookers, swinging their purses.”3

On the day of the Lee-versus Nettles fracas, when Nettles was informed of the extent of Lee’s shoulder injury after the game, he said he was sorry that Lee would be sidelined for a time. When it came to the black eye he gave Lee, however, Nettles showed no such remorse as he later said, “He just tried to sneak around the pile and he came at me, getting in my face, so, again, I wanted to make sure he wasn’t hit with any purse.”4 His comment showed how long players’ memories are in intense rivalries like the one between Boston and New York. The May 20, 1976, fight between the two teams was obviously not the first, and it certainly would not be the last.

 

[nynasty]

Was trying to embed the video but I'm retarded.

Lee comes over to squawk at Nettles and Nettles just cold cocks him. One punch, and Lee went down. I literally laughed out loud.

 

[Pure Steel]

Was trying to embed the video but I'm retarded.

Lee comes over to squawk at Nettles and Nettles just cold cocks him. One punch, and Lee went down. I literally laughed out loud.

Nettles was a very capable fighter....quick hands and gave Lee a shiner....I was at a game after that brawl and Nettles launched one off Lee after he came up and in on Nettles....He was never the same after that fight and still very bitter today....

 

[cerealboi]

Yankee fans. Always living in the past.