The Yankees’ AL East hopes will come down to how quickly they can fix this glaring issue

The play began pinch each 5 AL East teams being fixed astatine slightest a 30 percent chance to make nan playoffs by Fangraphs. The only different section pinch moreover 4 was nan NL West — but nan 5th member, Colorado, was astatine zero percent.

This represents little than 10 percent of nan season, and galore games successful this play were highly impacted by frigid weather. All you request to cognize astir really overmuch change tin hap successful specified a short period, see these 2 immense divisional storylines:

1. Do torpedo bats request to beryllium banned? The furor feels truthful agelong agone now that I hide if Anthony Volpe was benefitting from a torpedo aliases Lou Gehrig. That first play astir apt had much to do pinch nan style of nan Brewers pitching unit (down 8 of its 13 champion options) than of nan bats. In those 3 games, nan Yankees deed 15 homers and slashed .333/.427/.804 pinch 36 runs. In nan adjacent nine, nan Yankees managed 11 homers, 46 runs and slashed .244/.317/.416, aliases not dissimilar to past year’s .248/.333/.429.

So let’s clasp disconnected connected throwing each nan bats successful a wood chipper.