There are lies, rattling lies and the AL East.
We’ve got change into so conditioned to parrot that the division, top-to-bottom, is MLB’s greatest that we have now sort of missed that for some time now there was much more backside than high.
It isn’t that the Yankees have been nice. However they averted the divisional undertow that had pulled each different AL East workforce beneath .500 to start the weekend. And it’s not a brand new phenomenon.
From the All-Star break final season by means of Friday — roughly the equal of two-thirds of a 162-game season — the Yankees had MLB’s sixth-best file at 62-46. The Rays had been twentieth greatest (52-58) whereas the Blue Jays (50-59), Pink Sox (50-62) and Orioles (48-61) ranked twenty second to twenty fourth, respectively — bracketed by the Reds (51-59) and Marlins (45-63), nobody’s thought of stellar golf equipment. Baltimore responded to the prolonged downturn on Saturday by firing supervisor Brandon Hyde.
