Tale of Two Cities: Red Sox vs Yankees 2018

The Boston Red Sox were supposed to win the 2017 division running way. The New York Yankees had other ideas. How will the 2018 season play out? The war horns are sounding!

The first shots in a new war for the division between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees may have been fired in July of 2016. Brian Cashman put an exclamation point on his announcement to the world that the Yanks were going to be a behemoth at all levels of the organization, not just financially, by trading for a massive influx of minor league talent.

The Red Sox had a great young core settling in, and the Yankees had started to piece together the team that shocked the world and nearly went to the World Series in 2017. Fans of both clubs perked up at the thought of a renewed rivalry on the horizon — which brings us to the dawn of a new battle in the AL East: Red Sox vs. Yankees 2018.

The Preview:

The Red Sox were supposed to win the division in 2017, and they did. But the Yankees made it far more interesting than anyone was expecting, finishing just two games behind. The division was in play right up to the final week of the season, and the Yankees had a much more successful postseason.

The Yankees took 11 of the 19 games they played against each other, scoring 73 more runs on the back of a league-leading 241 HR. The Red Sox managed 168 dingers, fourth worst in the majors. The Yanks also allowed eight fewer runs on the season, finishing as fourth best in MLB with the Sox slotting in right behind at fifth.