Jeff Karstens Is Your American Idol

For those of you that are watching (or got to watch) tonight's Yankees/Twins spring training game, how awesome did Jeff Karstens look? Man that kid looked sharp. He's looked awesome all spring. His spring totals are: 8 IP, 5 H, 0 BB, 8 K . I know it's only spring training, but it's quite impressive nonetheless.
The Yankees have set themselves up rather nicely for the future of the rotation. Karstens, Clippard, Hughes, Sanchez. What was once a pretty barren farm system is blossoming into one of the league's best, with young arms o'plenty.
I don't know how many people are familiar with the game Diamond Mind Baseball. It's kind of like Strat-O-Matic. It's a simulation based baseball game that's based more on stats, than on your typical game that has a lot to do with hand-eye coordination and button pressing. It's a pretty respected company. They've been asked to create teams and run simulations for many different projects. Every year, they release a projection disk for the game. They run simulations and post the results, and usually they're spot on. ESPN posts their projections every year, and I think they even used them once for a greatest teams tournament. Or maybe that was USA Today. Anyway, they've yet to run their official projections, but the disk is out and some of the gamers have run their own simulations. Here's the link to one. For those too lazy to look, here were the results of the AL East, based on a 50-season simulation. It's the avg. number of wins, followed by division titles, followed by wild card births.
AL East NYA 96.20 37/7 TOR 90.48 10/13 BOS 85.30 3/8 BAL 75.76 0/1 TB 69.20 0/0
Now I know this isn't an exact science, but it's nice to see that it's not only Yankee fans that don't give the BoSox much of a chance in 2007. It should be interesting to see their official results when they've completed their sims. Regardless, we don't need a computer to tell us what we already now, right?
Peace, love and Pinstripes.
J-Boogie