Post Season and the Yankees

The post season of Major League Baseball is coming soon. There is a little less then a week of regular season game play left before playoffs begin as of today. There is still chances for many of the teams to make it into post season play, but for many teams their dream will be shattered and their season will end on October 4. At the end of the season there will be a total of eight teams that will advance into the exciting post season play. The teams that will advance are the American and National league winners of the East, Central, and West divisions and the teams with the most wins from the National and American leagues that did not win their division. One of those eight will be named champion of major league baseball by the beginning of November.

The New York Yankees are one of the teams people will be seeing in the playoffs. The Yankees won the East American league division on Sunday, September 27 when they beat their rivals the Boston Red Sox 4-2.While they still beat Boston, the Red Sox are not out of the playoffs. They beat the Toronto Blue Jays but needed the Texas Rangers to lose in order for them to secure the wild card spot, which happened. As a result the Yankees and Red Sox could be a good series to watch if these teams face again.

September call ups have occurred for the major league teams already. These call ups serve the purpose of increasing a teams roster and depth for playoffs. For the Yankees players from their minor league team the Scranton-Wilkesbar Yankees include Outfielder Shelly Duncan, Infielder Ramiro Pena, backup catcher Fransisco Cervelli, and pitchers Mark Melancon and Michael Dunn including several others. These players must be excited to be with the Yankees in the post season, especially because they did not make it last year. In fact these players on the current roster were present for something the Yankees had not done since 2006, and that Was winning the division.