It wasn't supposed to be like this.
The rebuilding Bronx Bombers weren't expected to battle the BoSox for AL East supremacy -- at least not quite yet.
But the New York Yankees enter their three-game set against the Boston Red Sox with a two-game lead in the division. So now that 2017 is surging toward the summer months, where do the two rivals stand?
Yankees beat writer Andrew Marchand and Red Sox beat writer Scott Lauber size up the clubs, unit by unit, and Judge David Schoenfield dons his robes once again to render a verdict.