As the 2018 Major League Baseball season approaches, it's hard to find much fault with the Yankees.
The AL East favorite and World Series contender looks, on paper, to be as good as almost any team in the sport. But if there's one team that may have an edge, it's the group that took down New York last October--then snatched a difference-making arm from them on the trade market.
Yes, the Houston Astros still loom as the favorite in the American League--with Gerrit Cole as a reason why.
According to one scout, the failure to acquire Cole could come back to haunt the Yankees in the fall, per Jon Heyman of FanRag Sports.