"Halfway to a very different kind of Boston Massacre, we have clarity on several issues swirling around the Yankees: They’re not nearly as good as the Red Sox and their rotation beyond Masahiro Tanaka is suspect enough to loom as the potential undoing of their wild-card hopes."
The Yankees have scored 200 fewer runs that the Red Sox. The Yankees have been outscored this season by about 20 runs. The Yankees have not been higher than 4th place since May. The Yankees could win all of their remaining 15 games and still miss the playoffs.
Wild-card hopes are still theoretically alive, but that's just because Selig and his cronies ruined the regular season by allowing 1/3rd of the teams into the playoffs.
Imagine the legendary 2016 AL East race if only one team could make the playoffs? Sigh.
But enough about the Yankees' ever-dwindling playoff hopes that never had much to dwindle in the first place.
I want to give an extended shout out to Tanaka. Mention him beyond one sentence.
Why no NY hype about his Cy Young chances? A right-handed pitcher whose home games are at Short Porch Yankee Stadium who leads the league in ERA.
Yes, it has happened before. Three times. Allie Reynolds in 1952 and Spud Chandler in 1943 and Wilcy Moore in 1927. Black-and-white replays before you were born.
I suspect there's no hype or recognition because he is proving everybody wrong and people don't like to be proven wrong.
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