Have the New York Yankees officially closed the gap on the Houston Astros after a big 10-3 victory? | Baseball-B-Cast Bar

Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman and senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz analyze how the spread between the New York Yankees and Houston Astros has changed over time, primarily due to the worsening of the Astros. Listen to the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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So I was in the building last night, Yankee Stadium, Yankees Astros. The Yankees are good. The Astros aren’t about a year and a half into the 2022 AL CS in which the Houston Astros pulverized the New York Yankees in a quick sweep. gave up three of those games or one point, but that was pretty definitive. Aaron Boone expressed to the media that there is a legitimate gap in quality between the New York Yankees and the Houston Astros. The quote paraphrasing now was something like they are the level we need to catch up to where they are. Do you remember it? Yes I do. Yes, yesterday during the pre-match press conference. said this two years ago, has this gap been closed? Do you think this gap has been closed? And now Aaron Boone’s not going to sit up there on that Dais and he’s not going to say the Astros are but, and we’re a bomb. come on, that’s not how these guys do things, but in so many words he said he thought the Astros pitchers right now were pretty, but, and he did it complimenting the Astros 2022 pitching staff, who, by the way, this team could throw this pitch deserved. But in comparison, these Astros in particular, especially the starting rotation that was pretty shaky last night, were supposed to be the stopper. It was Justin Verlander, the future Hall of Famer, the Astros’ best starting pitcher, probably you could tell me about Valdez, whatever that was supposed to be. Astros number one against Yankees number five Louis Hill. And instead it was a mismatch, the Yankees blew out Houston, uh by a final score of 10-3 in what looked like the start of the funeral of the Houston Astros dynasty. Verlander allowing three homers. good as, and I think they are, I think the Astros are good, however, they’ve certainly dug themselves a pretty deep hole to climb out of. There are now 11 games under 500 and yesterday’s performance against New York didn’t seem like a start. of a turnaround if the gap has narrowed. I think this has as much to do with the fall of the Astros as the rise of the Yankees. what you can blame them for, we talked about some infrastructure issues, some of which are just a series of injuries, right? And they’re bringing in some guys that they weren’t expecting when, by the way, injuries include Justin Verlander who, you know, started the season late and that’s still kind of settling into the season. All of these things contribute to it. But my interpretation is that the gap may have narrowed. But I think it’s more about the fall of the Astros than the rise of everyone else.

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