NJIT professor and respected mathematician Bruce Bukiet has crunched the numbers on all 30 MLB teams, and while his calculations project that the New York Mets will slide into a wild card spot in the National League, they're not as optimistic about the New York Yankees' chances to reach the postseason
Bukiet's prediction has the Yankees finishing with 80 wins -- good for second place in the AL East behind the 85-win division champion Toronto Blue Jays.
However, Bukiet says that even that comes as a pleasant surprise to some of his friends who are Yankees fans.
"I would show them this, that the Yankees had 80 wins, and [they'd say] 'The Yankees are going to do that well? How are they going to get 80 wins?'" he explained, via NJ.com. "The Yankees fans I know, they're not really expecting a whole lot out of the Yankees. I think their consolation is that their division is very tight. I have the Blue Jays winning the division, but the Yankees, the Red Sox and the Rays -- they're all in it."
You can view Bukiet's full division-by-division projections at this link.
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