From a health perspective, it had been a good spring for the Yankees. That was a welcomed change of pace. Of course, all good things must end, for the world is a cruel and cold place filled with sadness. Andrew Miller took a line drive off his right wrist in today’s game with the Braves. […]
Author: Nicolas Stellini
Checking in on the rest of the AL East
Once again, the American League East is shaping up to be a chaotic assortment of teams with no clear favorite to win the division. The Yankees have more question marks than some other teams, but there’s no one team that screams “juggernaut” here. While some teams have more warts than others, the East is a […]
Five Yankees prospects making full-season debuts to watch
The focus of Yankees prospects enthusiasts will soon be focused on the big-league camp, where the best of the best are set to play alongside the 25-man roster for a few weeks. Aaron Judge, Dustin Fowler, Jorge Mateo, Tyler Wade and others will be in attendance. However, if we take a trip down to the […]
Meet the Yankees Non-Roster Invitees
Spring Training begins soon, and when it does, 65 players will report to the Major League side of the Yankees’ camp. Twenty-five of those players are not members of the 40-man roster but are in camp as “Non-Roster Invitees.” Non-Roster Invitees, or NRIs, occupy an odd yet important role in the silly little world of […]
A fan’s guide to coping with the Greg Bird injury
For some teams, a prospect coming up to the big leagues and thriving is a regular occurrence. How lovely it must be to be a Cardinals fan! For other teams, it’s a rare occurrence. For the Yankees, it hasn’t really happened since Brett Gardner or David Robertson. There’s been a constant stream of disappointment since then, […]
Alex Rodriguez and the story of the Yankees in the 21st century
The myth of Sisyphus tells the story of a Greek king damned to an eternity of pushing a boulder up a hill as punishment for a life of arrogance and greed. Until the end of all things, and beyond, Sisyphus will still lie below in Tartarus, rolling his boulder up his hill until it falls […]
A Preface to the Yankees in 2016
Welcome to 2016. I hope it’s treated you well thus far. It’s a fresh calendar, minus six days, one unmarred by green checks or red x’s on game days. There’s no win-loss record, no injuries but the ones carried over from last year’s carnage. There is only what lies ahead, a destiny that has yet […]
Wrestling with the Ethics of the Aroldis Chapman Trade
Sports fandom, as you’ve read so incredibly often, is inherently illogical. We root for an organization and their players wearing a certain uniform to beat the guys wearing the other team’s uniforms, especially those guys who play in that city. Why we especially dislike those guys from that city is beyond us, but you know, that’s just how it is, so damn […]
What If the Boss Were Still Here?
Following a small flurry of activity at the Winter Meetings that involved the Yankees acquiring Starlin Castro and trading away Adam Warren and Justin Wilson. Now that these moves have been dissected, reanimated with lightning and put down again, it’s time for some lighter fare and to think about what would happen if one of […]
Yankees must refill hollowed-out bullpen after trades
When it was firing on all cylinders, the bullpen was easily the strongest part of the 2015 Yankees. Andrew Miller and Dellin Betances alone combined for 4.4 WARP as they told the entire baseball world to kindly buzz off. As of right now both of them will return for the 2016 campaign, yet trade rumors […]