New York Yankees:American League Championship Series

New York Yankees:American League Championship Series
The Yankees will open the season with CC Sabathia on the hill. The team’s ace will be more crucial than ever this season, as he’s the only reliable lefty currently in New York’s starting rotation. The hefty hurler has been brilliant in two seasons with New York; last year, he went 21-7 with a 3.18 ERA and 197 strikeouts. the Yankees made it all the way back to the sixth game of the American League Championship Series last year, thus reaching the ALCS in consecutive years for the first time since 2003 and 2004. This year, the Yankees return largely the same lineup, but with serious questions about their starting rotation.Though the Yankees made it all the way to the ALCS last year, the only members of their lineup that had superlative seasons by their own standards were Robinson Cano, who finished third in the AL MVP voting, and Nick Swisher, who hit 36 points better than his career average and slugged over .