How do you become a 103-win season? For the Yankees, the solution was simple: sign top productive pitchers in a game.
Seeking their long-awaited 28th title, the Yankees signed Gerrit Cole to a record-breaking nine-year, $324 million deal, giving the team the ace it has desperately craved. The Yankees haven’t won – or even reached – the World Series since 2009, losing to the Astros in the 2019 American League Championship Series.
Aleven, although the Dodgers were clearly favorites in our predictions for 2020, 3 of the six chose Los Angeles to win the World Series, it is the Bronx Bombers who started the season with the ultimate logic of our strength ranking.
Here’s how the seven USA TODAY Sports panels voted this week:
1. New Yor Yanees
2. Los Angeles Dodgers
3. Tampa Bay Rays
4. Houston Astros
5th Minnesota Twins
6. Oakland Athletics
7. Atlanta Braves
8. Washington citizens
9. St. Louis Cardinals
10. New Yor Mets
11. Arizona Diamondbacks
12. Milwaukee Brewers
13. Philadelphia Phillies
14. Cleveland Indians
15. Cincinnati Reds
16. Boston Red Sox
17. Los Angeles Angels
18. Chicapass Puppies
1 nine San Diepass Parents
20. Chicapass White Stockings
21. Texas Rangers
22. Toronto Blue Jays
23. Colorado Rockies
24. San Francisco Giants
25. Seattle Mariners
26. Pittsburgh Pirates
2 Miami Marlins
28. Kansas City Royals
29. Balti Orioles
30. Detroit Tigers