Indians vs Yankees

The hottest team in baseball versus the Baby Bronx Bombers.

The Indians, who posted an incredible 22 game winning streak this season, are back in the postseason after falling in the World Series last year. I’ll start with the injuries. The Indians outfielder Michael Brantley is batting ankle injury, Andrew Miller has been shaky out of the bullpen since he’s been back off the disabled list.

Terry Francona is making what I think is one of the worst decisions of the postseason, so far. He will skip, likely AL Cy Young winner, Corey Kluber and turn to Trevor “all energy/psycho” Bauer. Bauer has a great arm, but has been inconsistent his entire career. He’s never been able to post under a 4 ERA in any of his big league seasons. Game 2 and 3 the Indians get back to their go to guys with Carrasco and Kluber.

The Yankees will start with Sonny Gray game 1. Sonny is the the best pickup during the regular season besides JD Martinez. Sonny has been Mike Tyson lights out since the deadline. This is key, because this matchup against inconsistent Trevor Bauer allows the Yankees to steal game 1 on the road. After that the Yankees turn to CC Sabathia, then presumably not as good as advertised Mashiro Tanaka. Luis Severino who was supposed to be the star in the wild card game, got beat the hell down. I’m interested to see if he can bounce back, because without him this series is over for the Yankees.

Then, we get to see potent offense vs potent offense. The future 300 million dollar man Francisco Lindor vs King Didi. Big Bat Edwin Encarnacion vs The face of Baseball Aaron Judge. Once we get to the Bronx expect high scoring games.

The bullpen battle will be nothing short of awesome. The Yankees who I believe possess the best pen in baseball, as seen on Tuesday, didn’t have to throw golden arm Dellin Betances. Chad Green and David Robertson will be unavailable game 1 after throwing their ass off in the wild card game. However, don’t sleep on the Indians bullpen. Even though Andrew Miller has doubts because of the injury his shit is still filth junk nasty. Cody Allen and Bryan Shaw are studs and will hold it down in the pen.

The Indians should take game 2. Making it an even Series headed to the Bronx. This is where things get dicey for the Indians who decided to save Kluber for game 3. We all know Yankee Stadium is a hitters ballpark, so if the Yankees can capitalize and hit a blast or two on Kluber this series will be over. However, you can’t bet against the hottest pitcher in the game Indians take game 3. Yankees get a big start from either Severino or Tanaka in game 4, and we head to the winner take all battle game 5. Again the Bauer move will bite Cleveland, no ace Yankees mash whoever throws Yankees steal the series. Don’t get cute throw your best guys, it’s OCTOBER for Gods sake not June.

Yankees take the series 3-2

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