For Entertainment Purposes Only

Yankee blogger SG ran some 2006 sims ("take [these] with a ton of salt, as it is impossible to project how everything will shake out, and injuries, roster changes, and over/under performance will end up changing things in ways that cannot be prognosticated"):

1,000 Diamond Mind:

          W   L  DIV   WC   %   HiW LoW
Yankees  93  69  689  108  80%  110  76
Red Sox  86  76  219  136  36%  107  68
B. Jays  83  79   84   93  18%  102  63
Orioles  75  87    7    8   2%   92  91
D. Rays  70  92    1    6   1%   91  47

The Royals were the only team to not get a single playoff spot in the 1,000 seasons.

1,000 PECOTA:

          W   L  DIV   WC   %   HiW LoW
Yankees  92  70  619  148  77%  111  70
Red Sox  88  74  283  239  52%  107  67
B. Jays  83  79   93  103  20%  109  65
Orioles  74  88    5    9   1%   94  54
D. Rays  69  93    0    0   0%   87  45

This time, it's the Rays who get skunked (KC won the Central 11 times!).

1,000 ZiPS:

          W   L  DIV   WC   %   HiW LoW
Red Sox  94  68  784   70  85%  113  74
Yankees  85  77  116  164  28%  106  63
B. Jays  82  80   87   92  18%  105  64
Orioles  74  88    9    9   2%   92  55
D. Rays  73  89    6    4   1%   94  54

Now this I like. Can you imagine the Yankees going 63-99?!

Average of the three:

          W   L  DIV   WC   %   HiW LoW
Yankees  90  72 1424  420  61%  111  63
Red Sox  89  73 1286  445  58%  113  67
B. Jays  83  79  264  288  18%  109  63
Orioles  74  88   21   26   2%   94  54
D. Rays  71  91    7   10   1%   94  45

Once again, the East looks like a season-long battle and photo finish -- with the Blue Jays not much of a threat.

In another post, SG writes:

The addition of Johnny Damon has 'experts' everywhere predicting that the Yankees may score 1000 runs this year. While the talent may be on hand to actually do it, based on the 3000 seasons I ran in Diamond Mind, the odds of it actually happening are about 0.4% (it happened in 13 out of 3000 runs).

In the comments section of the Sims post, SG says the high and low runs scored for the Yankees was 1,043 and 643.