MLB: Is Yankees’ misfortune’s joy?
Before you sing playball, the Yankees are already in a difficult situation, will Red Sox take advantage?
Will the misfortune of New York Yankees become the joy of Boston Red Sox in the east of the American League?
Before the Playball’s voice, the Yankees are already in a compromised situation. The loss of key pieces in the New York roster has created, which can be, the perfect storm for Red Sox. And incidentally, the Baltimore Orioles also rub their hands with the idea of emerging in the East Division of the American League.
Yankees lost Juan Soto in the dead season, who emigrated to the neighborhood in front of the New York Mets. Aware of what that departure implied, those of the Bronx underpinned their clubhouse. They armed themselves with the Zurdo Max Fried starter, one of the highest quality free agents in the market, added power to their lineup with Paul Goldschmidt, who three seasons From the Chicago Cubs, who could take advantage of the benefits of the right garden for left -handed carabineros.
Until that time, the Yankees looked as a clear favorite to repeat at the divisional top and navigate to the postseason with high possibilities of reaching the World Series again, which they lost last year in five games against Los Angeles Dodgers.
However, the hurricane of bad news came with the Spring Training. Giancarlo Stanton accuses serious problems in the tendons of both elbows that today keep him under a reserved prognosis with respect to the date of his return to the activity and, moreover, he is afraid he could get away from diamonds throughout the season. The right pitcher Luis Gil is not ready for Opening Day, it is scheduled to return until June, after suffering a dorsal distension that prevented him from completing a Bullpen session on February 28.
The panorama already looked quite bad … and became even worse. The coup de grace arrived this week with the news, after consulting two expert doctors, that Gerrit Cole had to undergo Tommy John surgery, which was performed on Tuesday. It transcends that, at the end of 34, winner of the Cy Young in 2023, a surgical procedure was practiced, with a variant with respect to the usual one, which would help accelerate its recovery to a period of between 10 and 12 months.
The whirlwind that shook Yankees can then be an oasis for his division rivals. And the team commanded by Alex Coraespecially, it is emerging to be the one with the greatest advantage of the nightmare in the Big Apple.
Boston made movements on the board that look very interesting. The first, Walker Buehler, who despite a season of injury, added a second world series ring after coroning last October with Dodgers. Although it does not come from its best season, it has resources to be the pitcher again that in 2021 was fourth in the race for the Cy Young, after presuming a 7.1 Warb. The second, Alex Bregman, another player with postseason DNA, who also adds two champion rings and also just conquered his first gold glove in the prelude. Bregman signed his third season in thread in 2024 with at least 23 home runs and is called to be one of Boston figures in the 2025 season.
These additions add to a roster in which Jarren Duran and Rafael Devers stand out. The first comes to lead the American league in double (48) and triple (14). The second has just given a blunt message at a precise moment.
After the controversy that arose at the beginning of the Spring Training with the arrival of Bregman and his fierce negative to the possibility of leaving the hot corner to assume the designated batter responsibilities, the Dominican has said a few hours ago that he is ready to contribute where he is more necessary for his team. The message of calm, seems to assure the Manager Cora that will have a united and propped club in 2025, hungry to take advantage of the vicissitudes for which their historical rivals are going through.
A movement that could far reduce Boston, a kind of as under the sleeve, is Garrett crochet. It is true that he adds only campaigns with a losing record in his career, but in 2024 he had his first call to the star game and in 2025 he will reach his prime with 26 years. The left -hander won an average speed mile on its straight line, which went from 96.2 mph in 2023, to 97.2 mph in 2024; He added the cutter to his repertoire, a cut straight that travels on average to 91.5 mph and removed stress at his arm by decreasing the Sweepers quota between 2023 and 2024. Crochet is a secret weapon.
Remember these names, the infielder Kristian Campbellthe gardener Roman Anthony and Mexican blood shortstop, Marcelo Mayer. Those three young people will possibly begin in minor leagues, but at any time they can receive the call to add their talent to the big team. Mayer is nephew grandson of Héctor ‘Chero’ Mayerwho shone as a torpedo of the Red Devils In the second half of the fifties.
Red Sox also dealt with some problems. The spring debut of Devers has postponed while exceeding shoulder ailments, although it is expected to play this weekend. The openers Lucas Giolito and Brayan Bello will not be ready for the Opening Day, but it does not seem that it is a problem that causes headaches greater to the manager Alex Cora.
Is the perfect storm for Red Sox that does not win ticket to postseason since 2021?
While Yankees has where to lay hands and Fried and Bellinger’s acquisitions can get them afloat, it is a conjunctural moment for Boston and let’s not neglect Baltimore, both novenas can squeeze in a division that always offers great emotions for being the one that hospitches the greatest rivalry in sport.
Orioles, planned to end in the second or third position of the division, now catapults to fight for the top along with Boston. Perhaps, if Baltimore had invested more in his opening pitching he would have climbed into the mummies. However, it seems that Zach Eflin, the newly brought Charlie Morton, Tomoyuki Sugano and Cade Povich can support him from the mound to a youth offensive that has gained experience: Gunnar Henderson, Adley Rutschman, Colton Cowser, Jordan Westburg and Jackson Holliday.
A brake for Baltimore in the fight for the division is that the start will be slow with Gunnar Henderson accusing ailments in the preseason, Jorge Mateo planned to return in early April after reconstruction surgery of the left -and -ished Cubital Collateral Ligament; as well as Andrew Kitredge, of the elements acquired in the free agency to strengthen his pitching, who due to problems in the left knee will not be ready until the end of June.
The beginning of the 2025 season is getting closer. We will see if Bronx’s are able to grow in punishment or if they end up collapsing in their attempt to be protagonists for the second consecutive year.
