The New York Yankees are currently 44-38 and hanging tough in the American League East.

The Yankees are in third place but sit just 5.5 games out of first place and continue to hang around despite injuries and a troublesome starting rotation.

One area where the Yankees have surprisingly excelled is the bullpen, which was thought to be headed for disaster after Jobe Chamberlain was moved into the starting rotation.

The team will be without outfielder Hideki Matsui for a couple of weeks because of knee surgery, but he hasn’t been the run producer this year that we have seen in the past.