Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Baseball Prospectus has released its yearly record projections for each Major League Baseball team. If you’re not familiar, they use a system called “PECOTA,” which stands for “Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm.” It’s a system that uses sabermetrics in an attempt to predict the performance of teams and players. By no means is the system perfect, as it only correctly picked two out of the six division winners correctly in last season, but it’s certainly fun to look at the projections. In 2020, the Yankees were projected to win the American League East and make it all the way to the World Series. Obviously, that didn’t happen as the Tampa Bay Rays stole that title and galloped their way to represent the AL in the Fall Classic. However, with the losses of Blake Snell and Charlie Morton at the top of their rotation, the Rays will supposedly see a drastic drop in their win total, as PECOTA sees them winning around 86 games. The Yankees are estimated to win the division with roughly 97 wins, and the Bombers are given an 81.1 percent chance to come out atop the AL East in 2021. Those are the highest odds by any team in the entire league to win their division.