As we all know, the Yankees have had an injury plagued season for the ages. This has obviously impacted their on-field performance. While their 103 regular season wins is not shabby by any measure, I thought that if the playoff ready Yankees had been available all season, they would be a much better team and favorites over the Twins. After a fair bit of grinding over the statistics, I’ve discovered that this is not the case. The teams are a virtual dead heat. A word of cau

Today we welcome new writer Matthew Cohen to our site. This is Matthew’s first column for us. *** In the aftermath of the Yankees’ trade for Giancarlo Stanton, I thought that it might be fun to do an entirely too soon back of the envelope analysis of the projected win total for the 2018 Yankees. I am using the wins above replacement (WAR) player methodology. For those of you who want to avoid wading through the statistics, my analysis shows that the Yankees will win 101 ga