"Quick, name the current Baltimore rotation. … If you guessed Saunders, Wei-Yin Chen, Chris Tillman, Zach Britton and Miguel Gonzalez, then your name must be Buck Showalter.
The Yankees’ rotation is better — but not by a wide margin. With Ivan Nova joining Pettitte on the disabled list, manager Joe Girardi has CC Sabathia (two DL stints this year), Hiroki Kuroda (godsend), Phil Hughes (good since the All-Star break), Freddy Garcia (4.90 ERA) and rookie David Phelps (better out of the bullpen).
Are they good enough for the Yankees to win the division? Yes. Is that a World Series-winning rotation? Probably not — especially for a team that’s limping toward Labor Day."
The Yankees are 20 games over .500. Fourth-best record in baseball, fourth in the league in ERA, third in the league in runs per game.
The playoff rotation would be Sabathia, Kuroda, Pettitte(?), and Hughes(?).
They're a good team, not a great team. I take some comfort in the fact that mediocre teams always seem to win the World Series lately.
But betting against the 2012 Yankees isn't daring, it's chalk.
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