Before the regular season started, I wrote an article predicting that the AL East would look more like how it had fifteen years ago, with the Red Sox and Yankees vying for first place, and the rest of the AL East scuffling and trying to catch up. Given the high expectations around the Red Sox prior to the beginning of the season, and given certain caveats against teams not named the Yankees or Red Sox, I was pretty confident in this take. I even believed in a real possibility of an Orioles vs.
The AL East doesn’t look the way we expected it to look
