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Its Early. Soto and the offense seems to be great. Lets get back to the Yankees later in the season and see how they hold up to injuries.

Over the season the Rays will be the biggest challenge to the O's. They will fix their pitching as they always do and have a chance to get 3 great starters back for the second half of the season. Springs is throwing Baz was pushing to hard and lifted a Yandy Diaz weight. Rasmussen is ahead of schedule for July/August return. What is the greatest obstacle they face this season?

AL East: 1. Rays 2. O's 3. Yankees 4. Toronto 5. Red Sox. It's very hard to repeat in a strong division. The O's have the best talent and good management. Not a lot of injures last year and I'm guessing that will catch up tp them this year. https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/injured-list/2023/cumulative-team/ The Rays have the best management. and they always are in the mix for the division. They are faster, better in defense and more depth then last year. Either the O's or Rays win it. Yankees have the most money and will hit a ton of homers and have a great pitching coach. Their defense is not great, they are slow and not a lot of depth. The Blue Jays have most of the team signed through 2025 and that about it. The individuals are better then the sum of the parts. The Red Sox could overtake either the Yanks or Jays. They are getting younger and better but a lot has to go their way to end up ahead of those 2.