Last week on the Bronx Beat podcast, I expressed that I’d rather the Yankees sign Mike Moustakas to a one-year deal than Todd Frazier. Ever since that comment, I’ve been thinking over the one thing I said why I’d sign Moose: because he’s a left-handed bat in an overloaded right-handed lineup. Baseball pundits always preach […]
Author: Martin Alonso
Girardi: Bullpen maestro
Ever since Joe Girardi took helm of the Yankees way back in 2008, fans have been dismayed at his poor bullpen management. Girardi seemed unable to call the right reliever to face the task at hand. And sites like Bleacher Report, The Sports Quotient, Bronx Bomber Ball, and SB Nation’s Pinstripe Alley were quick to […]
Stanton gives the Yankees positional flexibility
The New York Yankees have acquired Giancarlo Stanton — and 90 percent of his $295 million contract — in exchange of Starlin Castro, Jorge Guzman, and Jose Devers, who are now part of the Miami Marlins organization. Never mind how this might impact the 2018 free agent class. As of Friday, the Yankees are set […]
On discovering Doc Halladay and becoming a fan
Living in Peru, watching baseball without MLB.tv was hard. We usually only got two chances a week to see a game: either Wednesday night or Sunday night – and that if it wasn’t football season. It was a year after I got in the game; a friend of mine told me that I had to […]
Looking back: Our favorite moments of 2017
The season is officially over, and even though the results weren’t what we expected, we still keep writing about the Yankees. With 2018 now approaching, we wanted to share with you our fondest memories of 2017. *** Watching Judge in 2016 was painful. His K% neared 50 and he slashed .179/.263/.345 over 27 games. Watching […]
ALCS Game 3 Prospectus: Just what the Judge ordered
Seems like we’ve been here before. It was just last week that the Yankees were trailing the Cleveland Indians two games to none in the ALDS. One week later, they’re trailing the Houston Astros two games to none in the ALCS. The difference? In two games played over in Houston, the powerful Yankees lineup could […]
ALDS Game 5 Preview
It’s hard to make an analytics post based on four games of a playoff series. It’s even harder to draw conclusions from these since they are short series that have almost no correlation with what has been done throughout the regular season (i.e. the Los Angeles Dodgers sweeping the Arizona Diamondbacks.) But, given the final […]
The AL East might go down to the wire
There are less than two weeks of regular season play and as it stands, the Yankees are three games behind Boston for the AL East. If those standings hold, then the Red Sox will visit Houston in a reversal of their final series; while the Yankees will host a one-game playoff against the Minnesota Twins. […]
Are we still missing Jeter?
Last week, Didi Gregorius launched his 20th home run of the season, achieving a feat that former Yankees great Derek Jeter never did: having back-to-back 20 home run seasons by a shortstop. Over his career, Jeter’s peak ISO was .204, which he reached in 1999 after batting .349/.438/.552 with 19 home runs in 739 plate […]
The Yankees are playing better than their record
Despite losing two out of three to the Red Sox over the weekend and sitting five games out of first place, the Yankees are a good team. They’re outliving their preseason expectations, surprising many who pegged them to be contenders in 2018 but not 2017. And though they’re not leading the AL East, they still […]