Buffalo Boy's Blog

Don't get your hopes up if you are a Yankee fan. The signs are there for a collapse in the first round. Today, I am the biggest Tampa Bay Rays fan on the planet. I hope not only the Rays win but the Yankees go into the postseason as the wildcard with another L in the loss column.

The Yankees are not the team they were last year, they will go into the playoffs as the wildcard, no home field advantage throughout the playoffs and lets face it, their pitching beyond CC Sabathia is questionable at best.

Their greediness has caught up to them. AJ Burnett, they had to have the guy, has turned out to be a massive bust and a contract they are stuck with. He won't be a post season starter and if he is chalk him up as a loss every time out, his record is miserable since the All Star Break.

Same goes for Javy Vasquez, Blue Jays just handed him a loss and took him deep early and often in the win last week. So he may not be starter material either.

That leaves the Yankees with three legit starters for the post-season, Sabathia, Hughes and Andy Pettitte who lets face it, Pettitte is not the same starter he was say 5 years ago.

Bottom line is the Yankees will go down in the first round regardless of who they end up playing. Texas will light their pitching up and Minnesota will probably do the same and is one of the teams that could probably out pitch the Yankees bullpen.

The Yankees are 3-7 in their last 10 games, crawling to the playoffs is not the way they want to do it. You can't just turn it on and off, I don't care if you are the so called greatest team in baseball, they certainly didn't show it this year against the Jays who beat them 11 out of 19.

So, warning to Yankee fans, don't get too comfortable, the Yankees will be sitting right where the Jays are come the World Series, in their homes in front of the TV watching the Braves beat the Twins.

Yankees are goin down in the first round in 4 games.