Alex Rodriguez, Carlos Beltran, and CC Sabathia were great players and one day may share the halls of Cooperstown together. Each broke in with small-market teams, were superstars during their prime, signed huge free agent contracts, and took part in franchise-altering trades. Player Age Years Active Career bWAR bWAR All-Time Rank Highest bWAR Season 2015 Career Earnings Alex Rodriguez 39 […]
Author: Bryan Kohrs
There’s Something About Mark
Mark Teixera has an ugly swing. I don’t mean to offend, but in my eyes, his swing is not aesthetically pleasing to watch. Coaches typically instruct hitters to keep a level shoulder plane to avoid dropping the back shoulder and swinging up at the ball. Mark Teixeira hails from the Fat Joe school of hitting; he leans back, drops his […]
Should He Shave?
On the road in Tampa Bay a few weeks ago, Brett Gardner started a fad bigger than Beanie Babies, Silly Bandz, or those demon children Furbies; he grew a pitiful excuse for a moustache. In the coming days, the rest of his Yankees teammates followed his lead, sprouting whiskers of their own, in an expression of misguided masculinity, superstition, and […]
The Prodigal Son: Alex Bonds-riguez
During most weeks, the primary Yankee focus is the performance of the team on the field in the form of wins and losses. We’d care about Beltrán’s bat going through menopause, Chris Young’s MVP candidacy, wins, and losses. In the words of a frustrated and impassioned Herm Edwards, “You play to win the game!” But this is not most weeks; […]
Getting Offensive
As the first tenth of the baseball season concludes this week, the annual transition from screams of “small sample size!” to admissions of “that’s a real trend!” begins. Right now, I like to think we’re somewhere in between these two, in a “well, maybe that means something” phase of the season. For analysts, being able […]
Overreactions and Underreactions: Week 2
At this point I’m not planning to make this a weekly piece, but with the Yankees finishing up their first tour of the division, I felt it was appropriate for us to follow through on our end. Like last week, we’ll start by taking the temperature of the two opponents the Yankees faced this week, the Orioles […]
Rays Series Preview
For all the hullabaloo made about the Yankees and Red Sox rivalry, the Rays and Yankees have a damn good one going themselves. The Red Sox have been off in their own corner jumping between last place and the World Series, but since 2010, the Yankees and Rays have finished no more than seven games apart in the standings. […]
Will the Real Big Mike Please Stand Up?
On January 13th, 2012, the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners combined for one of the more shocking blockbuster trades in recent memory. The Yankees, flush with hitting, traded the position-less masher Jesús Montero for Michael Pineda of the Mariners, one of their many promising young pitchers. It played out like a classic elementary school lunchtime […]
Overreactions and Underreactions: Week 1
Welp. One week down and the Yankees record isn’t great. Power: out Morale: low. A lot of you might think the sky is falling. But here at BP Bronx we prefer our sky stays right where it should be. So rather than provide kindling for hot takes, we prescribe a reality check. What are we making […]
Red Sox Series Preview
I feel like over the past few years, the “Best Rivalry in Baseball” belt was stolen away from the Red Sox and Yankees. My criteria for the belt: 1) Both teams must be in the same division. More games and the same goal: a division title. 2) Both teams must be good. Nobody cares about two bad teams […]