There are lies, damn lies and the AL East. We have become so conditioned to Diego Cartaya Jersey parrot that the division, top-to-bottom, is MLBs best that we have kind of mi sed that for a while now there has been a lot more bottom than top. Acce s the Yankees beat like never before Dont mi s Greg Joyces text me sages from The Bronx and beyond hes giving Sports+ subscribers the inside buzz on the Yankees. It isnt that the Yankees have been great. But they avoided the divisional undertow that had pulled every other AL East team under .500 to begin the weekend. And it is not a new phenomenon. From the All-Star break last season through Friday roughly the equivalent of two-thirds of a 162-game season the Yankees had MLBs sixth-best record at 62-46. The Rays were 20th best (52-58) while the Blue Jays (50-59), Red Sox (50-62) and Orioles (48-61) ranked 22nd to 24th, respectively bracketed by the Reds (51-59) and Marlins (45-63), no ones idea of stellar clubs. Baltimore responded to the extended downturn on Saturday Frank Howard Jersey