Remember that seven-game lead in the AL East? It’s gone. In 15 days no less. The lead is down to a half-game and the Yankees’ odds of winning the division are down to 46.8%, according to FanGraphs. They were 78.0% the day of the trade deadline. The Blue Jays have increased their AL East odds from 16.3% to 48.1% during that same time. (The Jays have better division odds than the Yankees because the projection systems like their roster more.)
But the Yankees can’t worry about the Blue Jays right now. They’ll be time for that this weekend. Right now the Yankees just need to figure out how to score some runs and get basically every hitter on the team other than Carlos Beltran and Didi Gregorius back on track. The bullpen is spent — it’s almost like they could have used an innings eating starter at the deadline, right? weird — and their margin of error figures to be tiny. Not a good combination. Here is the Indians’ lineup and here is the Yankees’ lineup:
- CF Brett Gardner
- 3B Chase Headley
- DH Alex Rodriguez
- 1B Mark Teixeira
- C Brian McCann
- RF Carlos Beltran
- SS Didi Gregorius
- LF Chris Young
- 2B Stephen Drew
LHP CC Sabathia
It is cloudy and cool in Cleveland today, and there is no rain in the forecast either. Hooray for that. Tonight’s game will begin a bit after 7pm ET and you can watch on YES. Try to enjoy.
Roster Moves: In case you missed it earlier, Chris Capuano and Nick Goody have been called up to give the team some fresh arms. Garrett Jones and Branden Pinder were dropped from the roster in the corresponding moves.
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