How Are the Yankees Still in Playoff Contention?

August 26, 2014 by · 4 Comments

Joe Girardi and Brian Cashman must be sorcerers.

That can be the only explanation for the New York Yankees’ ability to hang around the periphery of American League playoff contention. Their rotation lost starters CC Sabathia , Masahiro Tanaka , and Ivan Nova for the season, and only recently got Michael Pineda back from the 60-day disabled list. Outfielder Alfonso Soriano was released by the team after putting up a -1.1 fWAR, and we’ve seen another high-priced outfield free agent, Carlos Beltran , perform worse than a replacement player as well.

Yet after beating the Kansas City Royals 8-1 on Monday night, the Yankees are 68-61, six games back of the Baltimore Orioles in the American League East and 2.5 games behind the Seattle Mariners in the AL Wild Card.

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4 Responses to “How Are the Yankees Still in Playoff Contention?”
  1. Vinnie says:

    Would have love to have read the article but it was blocked unless you signed up facebook, yahoo or something else.Hope this was only an accident this time and that in the future you won’t post anything that can’t be accessed without having to become a member of something or other.

  2. Mike Lynch says:

    Not sure why it would have been blocked. The rest of the article should have been available.

  3. Vinnie says:

    Don’t know about anyone else, but I checked again and this comes up.

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    No x to close it out and continue. Either register or the highway I guess.

  4. Cliff Blau says:

    I get the same thing. But if I right-click (in Firefox) and choose View Page Source, then save it, I am able to open and read it in my browser.

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