Greg Bird made his rehab debut on Wednesday, and so far in two games, he has gone 2-for-6 with a strikeout and a run batted in. At the minor league level this season, Bird has been hitting .250/.411/.341 in 44 at bats, with no home runs and five strikeouts – all in an attempt to work […]
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Betances is getting his effectiveness back
Dellin Betances is a ridiculous talent. He is a create-a-player type you would craft up in MLB The Show. Who wouldn’t want a 6’8 reliever who routinely touches 100 mph and offsets that with a nasty breaking pitch? His freakish build and dynamite fastball-curve combo have helped him anchor a position in the Yankees bullpen […]
Brett Gardner’s offensive anomaly of a season
Brett Gardner has put together quite the season at the plate. Prior to the All-Star break, he unleashed a wicked power boom. More recently, he ripped off a 14-game hitting streak. However, his batting average and on-base percentage mirror last year’s season totals. If you still need proof that batting average and on-base percentage are […]
After a week of posturing, Yankees deal for Sonny Gray
(Due to an oversight, this piece didn’t post at the time it was written. Even though it’s three weeks later, we felt it should still go up on the site since Austin worked so hard on it. -SG) It seems like the rumor mill had been predicting Sonny Gray to the Yankees for days leading […]
The Red Sox vs. Aaron Judge
Aaron Judge went 1 for 18 across four games versus the Boston Red Sox. No, it wasn’t because of the Home Run Derby. That explanation – to use one of many terrible workplace buzzwords – is low hanging fruit. We’ve seen writers like Devan Fink of SB Nation’s Beyond the Box Score break apart that myth, leading […]
Yankees go Costco shopping and acquire Robertson, Frazier, and Kahnle
The Yankees just went shopping at Costco. Now that doesn’t sound especially optimistic at first, but let me explain. First of all, Costco is great. I’ve never walked away from a trip to Costco unhappy with my purchases. Maybe I didn’t get exactly what I came for, or maybe I got way more than what […]
Did Gary Sanchez begin his Yankees career with more of a bang than Aaron Judge?
Over the last 60 games of the 2016 regular season, fans and writers were fawning over Gary Sanchez. The Yankee catcher represented a change in how the Yankees constructed their roster. Gone seem the days were the lineup was crowded with overpaid aging veterans looking to win another championship. The future will now be paved […]
Reacting to Mid-Season Prospect Lists
Calendars shedding another page as they embrace July not only catalyzes heat waves in the Northeast, but also the publishing of mid-season prospect lists. It’s a chance for analysts to recant past criticisms from the preseason and present the masses with prospects who converted their winter efforts into helium in their rise to relevancy. This season has been […]
Is Judge Breaking Projection Systems?
It’s not the awe-inspiring “breaking” we’ve seen from Miguel Sano as he snapped his bat like a twig in 2016. Or the much more humorous attempt at breaking that we’ve seen from the likes of Yasiel Puig, seeking, and failing to accomplish the same feat. This breaking is much more subtle, a metaphor for confusion that emerges when something […]
Implications of a Torn UCL: The Gleyber Torres Story
I may have jinxed it. Buzz around the Bronx picked up so much a few weeks ago that I felt it was inevitable Gleyber Torres’ would make a resounding entrance into a lineup second only to the Houston Astros in OPS. My series of posts – It’s Not Gleyber Time… Yet & It’s Almost Gleyber […]