AL East preview: Yankees remain favorite, Blue Jays in 追跡
American League East
(teams 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d in 予報するd order of finish)
NEW YORK YANKEES
2020 見通し: Few teams 利益 from the season's 延期するd start as much as the Yankees, who were 荒廃させるd by 傷害s during the 初めの spring training. 権利-hander Luis Severino is still out for the year after を受けるing Tommy John, but 強打者s Aaron 裁判官 (hip) and Giancarlo Stanton (calf) appear 始める，決める to play 開始 Day against the defending 支持する／優勝者 Washington 国家のs. 追加する in new エース 権利-hander Gerrit Cole to lead a pitching staff that received 306 ホームランs last season from an 罪／違反 that mostly returns the same players, and New York looks like the team to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 in the American League East and beyond.
New 直面するs: Cole was the main pitching prize of the winter, coming off a second-place finish in the AL Cy Young 投票（する）ing last season while a member of the Houston Astros. The 29-year-old former Yankee 草案 選ぶ led the league with 326 strikeouts and had an AL-主要な 2.50 ERA to go with 20 勝利，勝つs. Aside from Cole, the Yankees didn't make any other major moves over the offseason, but more from Stanton (18 games in 2019) would feel like a major 新規加入 to an already potent 罪／違反.
重要な subtractions: Shortstop Didi Gregorius, the 相続人 to Derek Jeter at the position, left for the Philadelphia Phillies as a 解放する／自由な スパイ／執行官 during the offseason. Gregorius played just 82 games during an 傷害-marred 2019 （選挙などの）運動をする. Also gone is 強打者 Edwin Encarnacion, who joined the Yankees last year as part of a midseason 貿易（する）. Encarnacion 調印するd with the Chicago White Sox as a 解放する／自由な スパイ／執行官. Severino (Tommy John) is a 重要な loss for the season, though he made just three starts last year.
FLM 予報するs: The Yankees take advantage of a 女性 American League East to 巡航する to the best 記録，記録的な／記録する in the AL and 競う for their first World Series トロフィー since 2009. Even if it's a short season, No. 28 would still feel 甘い.
TAMPA BAY RAYS
2020 見通し: T he Rays caught some off-guard with a 96-勝利，勝つ （選挙などの）運動をする last season, though they fell flat in the 開始 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of the プレーオフs to the 結局の pennant-winning Astros. Nobody will be counting out Tampa Bay this year, with only 存在 in the same 分割 as arguably the best team in the league in the Yankees working against the club. A busy offseason has the Rays looking to 押し進める the Yankees in the East, and the short season might 好意 Tampa Bay given its penchant for 成し遂げるing better in the first half the last several years.
New 直面するs: Tampa Bay 追加するd a serious 脅し to its 顔触れ in the form of former St. Louis 枢機けい／主要なs 強打者 Jose Martinez, who has 攻撃する，衝突する .298 over the last four seasons. New 新規加入 Hunter Renfroe (33 ホームランs for the San Diego Padres in 2019) brings 力／強力にする to the 外野, and fellow former Padre Manuel Margot (12 ホームランs, 20 stolen bases last season) is an upside bet with five-道具 可能性のある. Intrigue surrounds Japanese 輸入する Yoshitomo Tsutsugo, who comes off six straight seasons of 20 ホームランs in the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization, 含むing a league-best 44 in 2016.
重要な subtractions: Outfielder Tommy Pham went to the Padres 経由で 貿易（する） after a 2019 season with 21 ホームランs and 25 stolen bases. Also gone is outfielder Avisail Garcia, who finally showed 調印するs of putting it all together last season with 20 ホームランs and a .282 普通の／平均（する）. Garcia 調印するd with the Milwaukee Brewers as a 解放する／自由な スパイ／執行官. The Atlanta 勇敢に立ち向かうs poached backup catcher Travis d'Arnaud, who was a pleasant surprise for Tampa Bay in 2019 with 16 ホームランs (含むing a memorable three-ホームラン game) in 限られた／立憲的な 活動／戦闘.
FLM 予報するs: The Rays give the Yankees a run for their money but settle for second in the AL East and a プレーオフ 寝台／地位. But anything can go in the postseason, and a rotation consisting of Charlie Morton, Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow can put Tampa Bay in position for a 深い run.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS
2020 見通し: All 注目する，もくろむs are on Vladimir Guerrero Jr. as the Blue Jays enter 2020 as a team perceived to be on the rise. Last year saw the major league debut of the 21-year-old phenom Guerrero, and fellow 新人 Cavan Biggio (16 ホームランs, 14 stolen bases) also showed 調印するs of 約束 in 100 games. Joining the two sons of Hall of Famers is another young stud with MLB pedigree in Bo Bichette, who 攻撃する，衝突する .311 in 196-at bats in 2019. Toronto likely won't 競う during the short season (it doesn't even have a home park at the moment), but it could do a lot to show it isn't far from its first postseason 寝台／地位 since 2016.
New 直面するs: One of the biggest splashes of the offseason （機の）カム in the form of the Blue Jays 調印 統治するing ERA 支持する／優勝者 Hyun-jin Ryu to a four-year, $80 million 契約. Ryu had a microscopic 2.32 ERA for the Los Angeles ペテン師 last season, finishing second in the 国家の League Cy Young 投票（する）. その上の 支えるing the Blue Jays' rotation is 権利-hander Tanner Roark (4.35 ERA in 2019), and fellow righty Chase Anderson (4.21 ERA) could 供給する a 上げる once he returns from an oblique 傷害. On 罪／違反, Toronto takes a flier on infielder Travis Shaw, who 攻撃する，衝突する 32 ホームランs in 2018 but just seven last year.
重要な subtractions: The Blue Jays 企て，努力，提案 別れの（言葉，会） to longtime first baseman Justin Smoak, who 調印するd with the Milwaukee Brewers as a 解放する／自由な スパイ／執行官. Smoak had a 負かす／撃墜する 2019 for Toronto with a .208 打率, though he 供給するd three straight seasons of 20-加える ホームランs.
FLM 予報するs: Guerrero shows 調印するs of breaking out with a move to a new position at first base, putting him in line for an epic 2021. Then is when the Blue Jays really start cooking. But for now, the team is likely to muddle in mediocrity for the short （選挙などの）運動をする.
BOSTON RED SOX
2020 見通し: Part of the Red Sox likely wishes the 2020 season was just 取り消すd. A rough year is 推定する／予想するd for the 2018 World Series 勝利者s, with 最高殊勲選手 outfielder Mookie Betts now a member of the ペテン師 and エース left-hander Chris Sale out for the season after を受けるing Tommy John 外科. David Price was also tra ded, and Eduardo Rodriguez is 回復するing from a grueling 一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合 with coronavirus, leaving Boston with a hodgepodge of starting 投手s entering the start of the short （選挙などの）運動をする. The 罪／違反 still packs a punch, though it might not be enough to 打ち勝つ the team's other shortcomings.
New 直面するs: Outfielder Alex Verdugo will receive a fair 株 of attention as the headline return from the ペテン師 in the Betts-Price 取引，協定. A 高度に touted prospect, Verdugo 攻撃する，衝突する .294 with 12 ホームランs in 106 games with Los Angeles last season. Boston 追加するd former AL East nemesis Kevin 中心存在 to play the 価値のある 役割 of fourth outfielder, and left-hander ツバメ Perez will be counted on in the rotation given its short-staffed status. Perez, once a reliable arm for the Texas 特別奇襲隊員s, 地位，任命するd a 5.12 ERA in 165 1/3 innings with the Minnesota Twins last season.
重要な subtractions: Where to start? 追い出すd was 経営者／支配人 Alex Cora, who was later 一時停止するd for the year for his 役割 in the Astros' 調印する-stealing スキャンダル. （法廷の）裁判 coach Ron Roenicke takes over at the 舵輪／支配. On the field, Betts' absence is 推定する／予想するd to ぼんやり現れる large over the club, and not having Price in the rotation is a 重要な 攻撃する，衝突する (though Price has 選ぶd out of playing for the ペテン師 予定 to the coronavirus). Beyond the big 指名するs, clubhouse leaders in 権利-hander Rick Porcello (調印するd by the New York Mets) and Brock Holt (Brewers) are gone, leaving the Red Sox as a team 捜し出すing to 設立する a new 身元.
FLM 予報するs: Boston's 罪／違反 can still slug with the best of them, but it won't be enough to 打ち勝つ a pitching staff relying on the frequently 負傷させるd Nathan Eovaldi to be its エース for the start of the season. The Red Sox have a season to forget, but their young 核心 have them ready to retool over the offseason.
BALTIMORE ORIOLES
2020 見通し: The Orioles welcome the 2020 season as another year closer to getting out of Chris Davis' albatross 契約. The underachieving 受取人 of the $161 million 協定／条約 has become the 直面する of a disappointing Baltim 鉱石 team that has struggled to two of its worst seasons in franchise history the last two years. Better days are surely ahead for the Orioles, but it won't be this season. Instead, fans will get a 微光 of hope as outfielder Austin Hays appears 始める，決める for his first 十分な major league （選挙などの）運動をする.
New 直面するs: As a team with no 発射 at 競うing, Baltimore didn't shake much up over the offseason. Shortstop Jose Iglesias joins from the Cincinnati Reds after hitting .288 last season, and fans looking for anything 価値（がある） watching will likely be 扱う／治療するd to some marvelous plays from the 防御の whiz.
重要な subtractions: The Orioles finally gave up on former No. 4 全体にわたる 選ぶ Dylan Bundy over the offseason, shipping the 権利-hander to the Los Angeles Angels. Bundy never やめる clicked over the last four seasons in Baltimore, the final straw 存在 his 4.79 ERA in 30 starts last season. 迅速な 公共事業（料金）／有用性 man Jonathan Villar was flipped to the Miami マカジキs 経由で 貿易（する）, and 示す Trumbo is still a 解放する／自由な スパイ／執行官 after 結論するing his $37.5 million 契約 with the Orioles with a whimper. 行方不明になるd will be 強打者 Trey Mancini, whom we wish the best as he 戦う／戦いs 結腸 癌.
FLM 予報するs: Another year in the cellar of the AL East for the Orioles, who will be in the running for worst 記録，記録的な／記録する in the league yet again. At least the slog will be much shorter.
--Field Level マスコミ
