I didn't want to start this too early, but NY seems to be in pretty good health with two weeks to go before Opening Day, plus the addition of Walker's pull power today, so here goes...
Last year, NY led all of MLB with 241 team HRs, 16th most alltime. The record is by the 1997 Mariners, 264, and after adding Stanton (who ZiPS projected for 55 HRs, regression and a better park to hit in evidently cancelling each other out), they'd seem to have a good shot at that, assuming good health and that I haven't angered the baseball gods too much by posting this.
Anyway, I thought we could keep an eye on that here as the season progresses. I don't think it makes too much sense to project specifics until we see who actually makes the team, but here is a piece from last month that tries, before Drury and Walker and maybe Lind*, they have NY at 250 there:
https://www.mlb.com/news/yankees-can-challenge-home-run-record-in-2018/c-265253614
*No way Lind makes the team now barring injuries, maybe he will agree to go to Scranton until his 6/1 optout, but I don't think he makes the roster at any point unless Bird goes on the DL. But if that did happen, he would be a nice option to still have around against RHP so hopefully they can figure out how to do that. Lind's other opt-out is 3/22 (next Thursday) so we should know if he is a depth option still or not soon. Also Mike Ford has been awful trying to make SEA's roster so far, so he may be coming back soon too...
Last year, NY led all of MLB with 241 team HRs, 16th most alltime. The record is by the 1997 Mariners, 264, and after adding Stanton (who ZiPS projected for 55 HRs, regression and a better park to hit in evidently cancelling each other out), they'd seem to have a good shot at that, assuming good health and that I haven't angered the baseball gods too much by posting this.
Anyway, I thought we could keep an eye on that here as the season progresses. I don't think it makes too much sense to project specifics until we see who actually makes the team, but here is a piece from last month that tries, before Drury and Walker and maybe Lind*, they have NY at 250 there:
https://www.mlb.com/news/yankees-can-challenge-home-run-record-in-2018/c-265253614
*No way Lind makes the team now barring injuries, maybe he will agree to go to Scranton until his 6/1 optout, but I don't think he makes the roster at any point unless Bird goes on the DL. But if that did happen, he would be a nice option to still have around against RHP so hopefully they can figure out how to do that. Lind's other opt-out is 3/22 (next Thursday) so we should know if he is a depth option still or not soon. Also Mike Ford has been awful trying to make SEA's roster so far, so he may be coming back soon too...