Yankees Have It All Going for Them Right Now

It’s a wonderful time to be a Yankee fan right now.  They have erased the eight losses and early season blunders to the Red Sox and started a new streak against the Red Sox; Five wins in a row.  The Yankees and Red Sox played a slow-pitch softball game last night in a 20-11 Yankee blowout at Fenway.  What more could a Yankee fan ask for right now?  They are punishing Boston, expanding their division lead, and diminishing Boston’s wild card hopes while setting up Joba and their pitching staff, giving some position players occasionally days off and hitting the ball all over the place.  

Let’s look at what Jeter’s done his last five games:  3 for 4, 3 for 4, 3 for 5, 2 for 4, and 3 for 6.  He was batting .318 ten days ago and now he’s batting .333.  Jeter’s exceptional production makes up for a guy like Robinson Cano’s recent struggles.  It gives Cano the chance to work out the kinks when the guys around him are producing.  The Yanks have so much depth on the bench that they can afford to sit Damon out for some games while he heels after taking a ball to the inner knee last night.  

We are finally getting what we expected all along from the Yankees.  The hottest team in baseball can put the Red Sox away in the next two days and even if they lose the next two games it’s not the end of the world.  I still don’t think we are seeing the Yankees at full potential and I hope they are saving that for October.