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Originally Posted by theprofessional
I'm running a playthrough with the yankees, just some quick ratings/position changes I'd suggest:
Gerrit Cole is rated way too low, he's coming off a Cy Young season and is considered the best SP in MLB. He should at least be a top 3 pitcher in the game IMO. Also, he's going to be out for at least the first 2 months of the season with an elbow injury.
Anthony Volpe's defense needs an uptick, he won a Gold Glove as a rookie at SS last season.
Aaron Judge is going to be the Yankees' everyday CF, he should definitely be rated higher than 30/45 for the position. He played CF most of the 2022 season and was pretty good if not average/above average at the least.
Austin Wells is listed as a RF in AAA , he'll most likely start the year as the backup/rotational catcher on the MLB squad.
Alex Verdugo hit almost 40 doubles the past 2 seasons , his Gap power should be increased.
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Cole, our ZIPS projections (which are an earlier version than the published one) do not really love this year for whatever reason. I've considered whether to boost him a touch, it may yet happen.
Volpe, can check over, but we really don't care about gold gloves, those are notoriously political and often have little to do with actual fielding ability. Baseball Savant ranks him as essentially an average SS, which is more where we have him.
Judge, yeah good point. Boosted his CF experience and slightly boosted his component ratings too.
Wells, made some slight tweaks to try to get the AI to roster him. We'll be going over all teams though and trying to get them closer to OD rosters and lineups over the next couple weeks, so this will change for a lot of folks. Tweaked Verdugo too but like LansdowneSt mentions, Fenway is a factor here.