yanks are looking pretty stacked while boston is looking pretty weak again, looks like 08 will be the same as every other year, yankees win, boston second place again.
2007-11-15 20:55:20 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
Yup. All we needed was to eradicate the senile, old man at the helm.. and I'm not talking about Georgie. We got Jorge and A-Rod back. If we get Mo and Petite back, and Joba and Phil go into the rotation we will be unbeatable. Silly Red Sox fans are about to lose MIke Lowell to the Empire and those idiots actually think Jacoby Ellsbury will be good. Joba/Hughes > Lester/Buckholtz. Even our young arms are better. HAH.
2007-11-15 21:35:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 8⤋
It starts and ends with pitching and the red sox clearly have the edge there.
Red Sox - Beckett, Matsuzaka, Schilling, Wakefield, Buchholz/Lester
Yankees - Wang, Mussina, Chamberlain, Hughes, Kennedy
Boston has 4 proven winners in their rotation, and probably the 2 best big game pitchers in the last 25 years in Beckett and Schilling. Beckett is an ace, Matsuzaka struggled down the stretch, but showed signs of brilliance early in the year, and clearly had a big adjustment to make coming from Japan, but it's widely expected that he will come back much stronger in '08. Schilling and Wakefield are obviosuly older, but i would still match Schilling up with anyone in the Yankee rotation and feel good about it. Wakefield isn't spectacular, but at the end of the season you know he will have 12-15 wins. Buchholz and Lester still remain largely unproven in the majors, but you can't see a no hitter and a a dominant performance in a clinching game of the world series and not feel good about the future.
Assuming Pettite does not come back, the only guy in the Yankee rotation with any recent success is Wang. Mussina looks over the hill and there is still some question as to if he will stay in the rotation. Chamberlain, Hughes and Kennedy, like Lester and Buchholz have potential to be great pitchers for a long time, but they still have a lot to prove, given that Chamerberlain is the only one with any real big league success, and that was all out of the bullpen.
And in the bullpen, assuming Rivera comes back, which is a pretty big assumption at this point, whos pitching the 7th and 8th? Farnsworth, Vizcaino, Ramirez? Not exactly an impressive cast. Boston has Papelbon, who has been better than Rivera the last two seasons, Okajima, Delcarman and possibly Timlin. Okajima was dominate for most of the year, Delcarman was great after being called up, and Timlin is a crocthety old bastard whole flosses his teeth with barbed wire before coming into a game, so i would say the Sox have a clear edge in the rotation and in the pen.
The Yankees have a better hitting team, but the Red Sox just won a world series with Coco Crisp, JD Drew and Julio Lugo in the lineup most days, and one can only assume give there careers thus far Drew and Lugo will have better '08 seasons, while Crisp will likely be replaced by Ellsbury, a player with 50 steal potential.
So in closing, to say that the Yankees are the favorites to win the division seems like a ridiculous statement to me given the events of last season and the way the both teams are currently built. The AL East race should be a good one, but by no means are the Yankees the favorite in '08
2007-11-16 02:09:32 · answer #2 · answered by James S 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think the question should be switched to-----Do the Yankees even have a chance to beat out the Red Sox in 08?
2007-11-16 00:59:34 · answer #3 · answered by Tony R 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Um easily boston is the best team in baseball. Yankees will not have a chance at beating the bo sox in the standings next year. Only way the yankees will beat them is if Beckett, Matsuzaka, Okajima, Papelbon, Ortiz, Ramirez, and Varitek die
2007-11-16 02:04:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
have the yankees found a pitching staff, did Boston lose theirs. When the Yankees get some starting pitching, someone besides Pettitte, Clemens and Mussina, they may be able to beat the Sox. The Yankies do have the offense, can't use rivera if your not in the lead
2007-11-15 23:34:09 · answer #5 · answered by tequila lucky 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
it is early on in the season, they nonetheless have approximately 8 greater tries to conquer Boston, I understand you're annoyed besides the undeniable fact that it is June. there is time left to conquer Boston, they did it in 2009, and that they are able to do it this three hundred and sixty 5 days.. if the pitching does not cave in. each and every group in baseball has a set they consistently cant look to conquer. in basic terms like the Rays, hell they on no account beat the Angels or the Indians on the line ever, till at last the final 2 years. This became into in basic terms like the 1st season the place the Rays swept the Angels on the line.
2017-01-05 14:43:42 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WOW u obviously don't know whats going on the Yankees are signing the same OLD AGING players to lonterm contracts I love it the sox are getting younger and faster and the Yankees are getting OLDER and slower.
2007-11-16 01:05:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
How have the Yankees improved?
Signing an aging catcher to a long-term deal?
Signing Rivera?
Signing A-Rod to a $275 million dollar deal?
Wait they added pitching right?
Nope.
They added a good first baseman right?
Nope.
SO FAR the Yankees are basically the same team they were last year.
2007-11-15 23:14:35 · answer #8 · answered by GPC 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
uhh.. did you watch baseball in 2007?
the Sox were first in the East this year and won the World Series. The Yankees were the wildcard.
I haven't seen the Yankees win in a while.
2007-11-15 21:00:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
The Sox I think will win the divison but whenever they play the Yankees the Yanks always find some way to beat them.
2007-11-16 01:04:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Uh...Newsflash...Did you watch the World Series?...For the 2nd time in 4 years, the Red Sox won...There is no more curse...And the Yankees were boneheaded in letting Joe Torre go...
2007-11-15 21:30:35 · answer #11 · answered by Terry C. 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋