Today, Bob Klapisch pens (okay, probably "keyboards") a story for ESPN.com entitled Injuries make AL East a three-team race. It's a typically good read from the solid-if-unspectacular Klapisch, sort of the Michael Young of ESPN's roster of Web writers.
As the title might suggest, his major point of discussion is captured in the final sentence of the second graf: "Considering Josh Towers is 1-8, it's a semi-miracle that Toronto has stayed close to the Red Sox and Yankees, maybe because everyone else in the East has lost important chess pieces, as well."
Now, this isn't about Towers, of course. But it does raise an interesting question ...Which of the three top teams in the AL East has been hurt (or helped) the most by injury this year? Don't count Randy Johnson's "Oh God, I just realized that I'm 83 years old" slump or Manny Ramirez's officially undiagnosed but widely recognized General Flake-itude. Which team has been affected the most by injuries this season -- negatively by its own and/or positively by those of others?
Klapisch's "lowlights" on the respective BOS-NYY-TOR DL statuses:
https://www.battersbox.ca/article.php?story=20060530232144769