The Yankees enter Spring Training as the clear favorite to represent the American League in the World Series and for good reason. The offseason couldn’t have gone any better for New York for a lot of reasons, but mostly because of the addition of superstar ace Gerrit Cole.
The Yanks signed Cole away from the Houston Astros who have had a historically bad offseason after they were caught cheating their way to a championship in the 2017 season. The Red Sox are currently under investigation for a separate sign-stealing scandal during their championship run in 2018 and earlier this week they traded away Mookie Betts to the Dodgers.