The #'s don't look good for New York

After the last blog entry and the number of affiliated players with the New York Yankees and New York Mets, I went on a rampid search of the Internet(thank you Google!)

I came across the following article on ESPN
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3153509

What really caught my attention about this article was of the top 6 teams listed with players in the Mitchell Report, the Yankees and Mets were again amongs the main culprits.

The breakdown of the top 6 teams was:

Yankees - 22
Orioles - 18
Angels - 16
Mets - 15
Dodgers - 15
Rangers - 15

Of those 101 players listed in the Mitchell Reports, it is astounding to find that 37/101 or 36.63% of them were Yankees or Mets.

Also, to again touch base on whether or not this may be a National League vs. American League Issue, the #'s based on those 6 teams and 101 players would tend to say that performance enhancing drugs are more of an AL issue. 70/101 players or 69.3% come from AL Rosters.

I don't know if these statistics against New York teams make me happy (being a diehard Red Sox fan) or even more offended by the entire situation!