Just like Tuesday’s lost, Wednesday’s 7-4 defeat against the Blue Jays features plenty of good and bad. Unfortunately for the Yankees, the bad includes another one in the loss column. On the bright side, the good centered around what’s important in the long term–the kids shined. CC Sabathia’s six inning outing was about as strange […]
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Gary Sanchez will be the Yankees’ everyday starting catcher going forward
NEW YORK — The Yankees’ youth movement is in full-swing. Before Wednesday’s game against the Blue Jays, manager Joe Girardi dropped a pair of hints that young Gary Sanchez will take over for Brian McCann as the team’s everyday catcher going forward. It’s a role he’s essentially held for a week or two now, but no […]
Here Come the Kids
The most dreaded time of the season for players, coaches, and fans alike are the so-called “dog days” of August. It’s the sweet spot of the season when players are exhausted from four months of over 100 ballgames, but still have a two-month grind of crucial baseball to play before the end of the season […]
Game 119 Recap: Runs, no DMC
‘Twas a tale of two games. The Yankees started off Tuesday night’s game firing on all cylinders. Michael Pineda was throwing well, Gary Sanchez hit two home runs and New York built an early six-run lead. Then the rain came. A 42-minute delay halted play in the middle of the fifth, long enough to force Pineda from […]
Watch: Up from Bikini Bottom, Gary Sanchez launches two homers to Goo Lagoon
In his 12th game of the season, rookie catcher and meowing-escargot Gary Sanchez put his stamp on Tuesday’s game. Before a downpour forced the contest into a rain delay, Sanchez took Blue Jays starter Marco Estrada deep twice in spectacular fashion. In the second inning, Sanchez put a solo shot into the bullpens in left-center field […]
Nathan Eovaldi needs surgery on torn flexor tendon, partially-torn UCL
Last week, New York Yankees pitcher Nathan Eovaldi left a game after complaining of elbow discomfort. Subsequently, the Yankee right hander was placed on the disabled list for what was described as a “right elbow tendon injury.” Less than a week later the prognosis has trickled in and things have turned grimly in a hurry. The […]
Chad Green is pitching his way into a future with the Yankees
NEW YORK — When you’ve got a massive right fielder who’s started off his career with extra-base hits in each of his first three games, a 23-year-old first baseman who hit towering home runs last season, and a cluster of exciting additions, it’s easy for a promising youngster to get lost in the mix. That’s what happened to 25-year-old right-hander Chad […]
Do the Yankees have a real chance at the playoffs?
The Yankees are 4 1/2 games back of the second wild card, and our own Baseball Prospectus playoff odds give them a 3.4 percent chance of making the playoffs, with an even smaller 1.9 percent chance of making it to the division series. Of course, if you ask a fan what the playoff odds of […]
Game 119 Recap: What if the Yankees keep winning?
Yankees 1, Blue Jays 0 The Yankees have 43 games left in the season and one could argue this was the game that the team could begin to make a push for the playoffs. After all, the teams the Yankees are chasing for both the division title and the wild card are inner division rivals […]
Why Didi Gregorius’s Success is Sustainable
In the winter of 2014, the New York Yankees were searching for someone to replace Derek Jeter. Okay, maybe “replace” is not quite the right word, but with the future Hall-of-Famer retiring, the Yankees had no clear internal options to fill the void Jeter was leaving behind. Brian Cashman was left with the daunting task of finding someone […]