Mar 23, 2023 -- 8:07PM, bruner4329 wrote:

Mar 23, 2023 -- 4:15PM, Raymond757 wrote:

Worry about this team hitting, without Judge and DJ

Amazing how somethings never change. I can't get the image of a team that could not hit in the playoffs last year.

How many teams would have as good a lineup as the Yankees if you took their 2 best players out of the Lineup?

Mar 24, 2023 -- 9:49AM, bruner4329 wrote:

Mar 24, 2023 -- 8:26AM, manbot wrote:

Mar 23, 2023 -- 8:07PM, bruner4329 wrote:

Mar 23, 2023 -- 4:15PM, Raymond757 wrote:

Worry about this team hitting, without Judge and DJ

Amazing how somethings never change. I can't get the image of a team that could not hit in the playoffs last year.

How many teams would have as good a lineup as the Yankees if you took their 2 best players out of the Lineup?

I do not take it as Raymond saying out of the lineup. Its more aside from DJ and Judge meaning the other 7 in the lineup. On that premise there are a few including Houston, Toronto, Atlanta, Phillies, Dodgers.

Its a valid point coming off of the last few years and playoff failures. Last year the team hit under .200 in the postseason. DJ was hurt and Judge did not have a good post season plus they pitched around him. Until this team prodices in the post season this is more fact versus fiction.

Dodgers were the only team in the MLB that scored more runs than the Yankees last season 

Dodgers lost Lux, Bellinger, T.Turner and J.Turner 

Astros were 8th in Runs scored and Behind the Yankees in OBP and OPS OPS+ Altuva is out for at least 2 months 

Yankees definitely top 5 offense 

Only 1 Team wins the WS every year  ... It doesnt mean that they had the best offense.

You could argue they Yankees opponents pitched better 

It's whoever gets hot at the right time and that is completly unpredictable

   Results on the field are not random. Results are about how teams cope with random events. You can use statistics to buttress any position you take. You can't use them to change the final score of the game. 

Mar 24, 2023 -- 1:19PM, manbot wrote:

Mar 24, 2023 -- 1:13PM, Paterson wrote:

   Results on the field are not random. Results are about how teams cope with random events. You can use statistics to buttress any position you take. You can't use them to change the final score of the game. 

Nothing that you just wrote means anything or applies to this converation 

You wrote: It's whoever gets hot at the right time and that is completly unpredictable.   

   Luck always plays a role, but the Astros won because their organization does a better job of putting together a roster with depth and diversity. You can give all the season stats you want, but after July 22 the Yankees were a 500 team. Nor did the Yankees hit against the Guardians. Nothing unpredictable occurred in the postseason.