Red Sox are old, fragile, and better than the Yankees.

"This was supposed to be the Yankees’ red line, a huge weekend series with the Red Sox that brought you back to this rivalry’s better days in 2003-04. All the peripheral issues had thankfully been peeled away — no more talk about injuries or performance-enhancing drugs or Alex Rodriguez’s schoolyard war with the front office. The Bombers prepared for a sprint to October, and if they weren’t going to catch the Red Sox, they’d at least use the final 20 games as a dress rehearsal for the playoffs."

Meh.

I don't think too many people thought the Yankees were going to make the playoffs.


"It was an intoxicating sales pitch; it certainly helped pack the Stadium over the weekend. If only the Yankees had made good on the promise of pumped-up baseball. Instead, they were nuked again by Boston’s offense Saturday, 13-9, revealing all the dark secrets about a roster that’s too old and too fragile to hang with the Sox."

The Yankees have scored 25 runs in 3 games and a lot of old players are driving in a lot of runs.

Jeter got hurt this weekend, ARod rested one game this weekend. Those are concessions to age.

Robertson, Logan, Phelps, and a lot of other injured players are "young" and the accompanying "athletic."

Kind of like how Ellsbury got hurt again and the Red Sox are on their third closer ... which may be proof that the Red Sox are brittle ... except there is no reason for alarm since the Red Sox won the games.


"None of that matters over these final 20 games, however. The Yankees’ only consolation has been the Rays’ surprise slump, which has kept not only the Bombers but the Orioles and Indians relevant. But don’t be fooled, the Yankees are barely breathing right now. They’ve been humiliated all weekend by their archrival, learning firsthand the Sox are younger, more athletic and on a run-producing surge that would intimidate just about any pitching staff." 

I think the Red Sox are better than the Yankees in every aspect of baseball: starting staff, bullpen, fielding, baserunning, bench depth, coaching, managing, heart, guts, smarts ... and, oh yeah, hitting.

But it's not really the athletic youngsters that are dominating the Yankees.  Victorino is old, Napoli is old, Gomes is old, Ortiz is old.