Well, NYY clearly the superior team.  If anything, NYY underachieved this season and based on statistics probably shoulda won the AL East, not RSox.

They scored almost 200 more runs than allowed, vs 27 for Min, it's not close.

You could argue, and you would be right, that Min has no business even being in the playoffs, and that for NYY to hafta play such a mediocre team at all in a made-for-TV 1-gamer for all the marbles, dumb.  Anything, the saying goes, could happen.

But, the better team usually wins, at least those of us who enjoy October baseball certainly hope so.  NYY-Cle would be a good series.