You are a large market MLB franchise and coming off a 10-game winning streak to turn your season around. With a week to go in the season, do you put your foot on the accelerator and look to sprint to the finish line for the best possible seeding for the playoffs? Or do you do the opposite, ease up and go through the motions? In fact, do you ease up to the point where you risk a first round match-up with the #1 seed, Tampa Bay?
Well, we know the answer now. The Yankees now have to face the Cleveland Indians in a best of 3-game first round series. SU hasn’t paid that much attention to the other teams this year but I did just look up the records and ERAs of the Indians’ starters for the series. Pretty impressive:
- Shane Bieber – 8-1 1.63 and the likely Cy Young winner
- Carlos Carrasco – 3-4 2.91
- Zach Plesac – 4-2 2.66
OK, so maybe the Yankees will defy the odds and win the series. But SU is troubled that the team couldn’t muster enough motivation to fight for a better seeding. The Indians must have one of the better starting staffs in the AL. And the Yankees will roll out the almost entirely right-handed line up except for Aaron Hicks and his .220 average.
SU is not feeling it. But ready to be surprised. Are others feeling more confident?
Sports Update Intergalactic 
It’s either suffering through the inconsistencies we have or watch the worst team in football play like the worst team in football. Oh..by the way the worst team in football doesn’t have the color green in their uniform
How can you possibly know that they were not going all out? What you see is what you get. The Yankees are underachievers and would have not made the playoffs under the old format. If Cole and Tanaka do not pitch up to their salary levels, they will have a quick exit from the Wuhan Flu playoffs.
Every year that goes by the more I seem to appreciate the World Series run we went through starting when we were 40 years old…. Just 2 decades and 4 years ago.