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Jacoby Ellsbury: Misfit of the Fly Ball Revolution

Since September 1st, Jacoby Ellsbury has the fifth-highest OPS in Major League Baseball. Upon reading this, one could certainly be forgiven for thinking I had stumbled across a page listing statistics from 2011 and am here regurgitating an outdated factoid. However, I have done extensive research (made sure I am referencing a page that says […]

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Monday Sonnet: The Age of Didi

In this series I endeavor to capture the weekend’s action in the form of a sonnet. Shakespeare used this famous poetic form to express passionate feelings, often of love and lust, while I am using it to recap baseball games. Please don’t tell your high school English teacher.     The ace of late against […]

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This is the Sonny Gray the Yankees traded for

Mid-season trades can be tricky devils. There is limited time for a player to accumulate value for his new team, often leaving the narrative surrounding the trade up to either early performance for the new squad, or, more dangerously, playoff performance. Neither assessment is ideal, since anything can happen in a short amount of time, […]

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The Monday Sonnet

In this series I endeavor to capture the weekend’s action in the form of a sonnet. Shakespeare famously used this poetic form to express passionate feelings, often of love and lust, while I am using it to recap baseball games. Please don’t tell your high school English teacher. At Friday’s close, an hour later than […]

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Signs the Red Sox Should Have Stolen

On Tuesday, the New York Times revealed the latest high-profile addition to baseball’s rich history of sign stealing. Combining two of the pastime’s most treasured traditions (a heated rivalry and an illicit strategy for getting a leg up), the Red Sox’s use of electronics to steal signals from the Yankees is sure to add some […]

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Aaron Judge’s New Approach

Yankees’ right fielder Aaron Judge homered in three straight games earlier this week. That, combined with his judicial last name, has resulted in a multitude of excellent, top-notch, entirely original judge-based puns, each of which is far beyond the talents of this author. My attempts (“he judged that ball really far” and “that was a […]

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Struggling Sluggers

In his first at-bat of the season, Gary Sanchez connected with a pitch that rocketed off his bat with an exit velocity of 115.7 mph. That is what advanced statisticians might describe as a hard hit…harder, in fact, than any contact Sanchez had made in his impressive 2016 campaign. Unfortunately, that batted ball also hit […]

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Waiting for Wade

On Wednesday, the Yankees sent shortstop/center fielder/spring training rock star Tyler Wade down to minor-league camp, ending the weeks-long mystery about whether or not the man Baseball Prospectus has ranked as the organization’s No. 9 prospect would be the one to fill in for Didi Gregorius throughout the first six weeks of the season. While both […]