MLB Dream Bracket: Who wins between the Yankees and the Red Sox?

MLB Dream Bracket: Yankees vs Red Sox

Who Has the Better Pitching Staff?

To round up each team’s 26-man roster, each team also features a pitching staff of 11 starters and relievers. With that, here is the pitching staff for each team:

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New York Yankees: Whitey Ford, Andy Pettitte, Ron Guidry, Red Ruffing, Lefty Gomez, Waite Hoyt, Mel Stottlemyre, Mariano Rivera, Dave Righetti, Goose Gossage, and Sparky Lyle.

Boston Red Sox: Pedro Martinez, Roger Clemens, Cy Young, Luis Tiant, Jon Lester, Babe Ruth, Lefty Grove, Jonathan Papelbon, Koji Uehara, Craig Kimbrel, and Dick Radatz.

Unlike the offense, when it comes to pitching, it’s not even close. The Red Sox far outperform the Yankees in every area, except in the area of closing.

In fact, Boston’s pitching staff features a W-L% of .631 while the Yankees have a .592 W-L%. Even in ERA, the Red Sox (2.84 ERA) are superior to the Yankees (3.20 ERA).

What’s more, even when we look at advanced stats, Boston edges New York. For example, the Sox feature a 3.00 FIP while the Yanks sport a 3.43 FIP. Even in terms of WAR Boston wins to the tune of 608.9 fWAR to 455.1 fWAR, a difference of 153.8 wins.

Because of this, the Boston Red Sox edge out the Yankees in the area of pitching.

In all, however, to make a determination, I ended up totaling up each team’s fWAR in pitching and hitting. As a result, the Yankees (1606.2 fWAR) will defeat the Red Sox (1550.6 fWAR) in the MLB Dream Bracket, but it will be close.