LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Watch third base. The rest of the AL East is obviously going to talk about seeing the Yankees flex with the addition of Giancarlo Stanton and brace for a counter-strike by the Red Sox that could be an Eric Hosmer or J.D. Martinez.
But brave words will not tell as much as what the Rays do with Evan Longoria, the Blue Jays with Josh Donaldson and the Orioles with Manny Machado.
In the past, those three teams have avoided full-on tanking and tried to win in the face of whatever spending was being done by the Northeast powerhouses.