It would be difficult to find two teams that derive their runs in a more polar-opposite way than the Guardians and Yankees. Cleveland hit 127 homers this season — exactly half of the Yankees’ 254. …
It would be difficult to find two teams that derive their runs in a more polar-opposite way than the Guardians and Yankees.
To understand what the Yankees face this week in trying to get back to the ALCS, we asked three scouts, one coach and one executive familiar with the Guardians to help with a scouting report. Here is what this panel views as most vital for this Division Series:The Guardians struck out in just 18.2 percent of their plate appearances — 1.3 percent fewer than the Astros . The ball is going to be in play. At least that should be the theory.
Conversely, no team shut down the running game like the Yankees. Their attention to holding runners on was part of their overall improved defense. The Yankees held teams to an MLB-low 49 steals and they threw out 36 percent of runners, second best in the majors. A moment here to reflect on Ramirez, who is building a Cooperstown career without much fanfare. He finished in the top six for AL MVP in four of the last five years and probably will again in 2022. His 416 extra-base hits since 2017 are 16 more than anyone else. The switch hitter led the AL in doubles this year , while hitting 29 homers, stealing 20 bases and playing his usual stellar third base.
This season, Cole and Cortes combined to make four starts against the Guardians, limiting them to 11 hits in 25 innings while walking six and striking out 29 — but they did give up four homers.The Mets’ Francisco Lindor is probably going to finish in the top 10 for NL MVP. But Gimenez, part of the package the Mets sent to Cleveland in the deal for Lindor, is likely to do the same in the AL. He actually finished second in the league to Judge with 7.2 Wins Above Replacement .
As Scout 1 said: “[Rosario] is a hacker offensively. But he’s also Hunter Pence. The last guy you want up when contact is needed — like Pence he is going to find a way.”Keep in mind that two of the losses Cleveland endured this season against the Yankees were started by Kirk McCarthy and Eli Morgan . The Guardians’ lone win came on perhaps the best-pitched game against the Yankees this year — when Triston McKenzie held them to one hit in seven innings while striking out seven.
Of McKenzie, the executive noted a pitcher who can work at the top of the zone well with his fastball and said, “The stuff is off the charts good.”
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