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New York Yankees, reigning Al Champs, are back in conversation on the best team in the American League. But as the latest episode of “Baseball Bar-B-Cast discusses, confidence in the Bronx bombers is sometimes as trembling as their walking rate of the surveys.
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Host Jake Mintz directed the pro-Yankees accusation, saying categorically: “Have you seen Aaron Judge playing before? … Aaron Judge is the best player in the world. It's not close.”
In addition: “Ben Rice is the second best player in the world, apparently.”
The figures are behind: even with disappointing beginnings of Cody Bellinger and Jazz Chisholm and simply the average production of Anthony Volpe and Austin Wells, the Yankees offensive has a monstrous 131 OPS +.
“It's the song,” said Mintz. “The song is that Aaron Judge is incredible.”
Shusterman was fast with a reality verification. “This is only a list that tends once again to adapt in a very strange way,” he said.
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With the DJ Lemahieu and Giancarlo Stanton who work in the mixture, and Rice by publishing four-digit operations in a way, Shusterman questioned the sustainability of the New York offensive beyond the superhuman exploits of Judge. He expressed his concerns about the capture of rice, a bellinger hitting third and Paul Goldschmidt with the bat.
“I think it's still a very oddly built list,” he concluded.
There are also legitimate concerns on the depth of pitching Yankees and an enclosure of the lifts which “works a lot of guys. A lot. So many walks ”, as Shusterman noted. At the same time, as Mintz pointed out, “Max Fried could be a top five launcher of the American League. He looks incredible.”
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Despite the faults, they are still the Yankees. They won ugly last year, arrived at the World Series and employed the best literal player on the planet. “This team does not need to be the best team in baseball. They just have to be the best team in the American League. And they did it, doing the same exact shtick,” Mintz told listeners.
Are the shoulders of judge (and the bat) wide enough to transport the Yankees to another crown of Al? History says yes. But recurring faults serve as a warning panel for New York – and anyone who breaks them to return to the fall Classic.
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