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Starlin Castro’s walk-off homer on Wednesday was exactly what the Yankees needed. A happy moment, a brief gasp of hopeful air. They avoided losing all four games to the Rockies in the season series, and the home run was the culmination of a strong comeback against a four-run deficit. Starlin Castro’s walk-off homer on Wednesday […]

Every baseball player has a point of weakness—an Achilles heel, if you will. For a batter, it’s often a specific location in or around the strike zone that gives them fits. It doesn’t matter who you are…even Mike Trout has shown vulnerabilities in his swing. Luckily, most are able to overcome their flaws, either by […]

In everyday life we most commonly think of human bodies holistically. Walking down the street we tend to see the fine folk in our path as people instead of limbs, torsos, rib cages and facial features. Things are a little different when evaluating athletes. In baseball, arms, shoulders, elbows, legs, and hands are commonly scrutinized intently by scouts, fans and […]

This recap was going to read very differently in the seventh inning of Wednesday’s 9-8 Yankees’ win. CC Sabathia finally had an off night, middle relievers once again came back to haunt the Yankees, and the offense couldn’t do enough to overcome the deficit. Thankfully, the Yankees managed to come back from four runs and won […]

Colorado just has not been kind to the Yankees this season. At the beginning of last week’s road trip, New York visited the Mile High City for a two game set but left feeling down in the dumps in a Mile Low valley. The Rockies held on for a wild 13-10 win in the opener […]

No, I’m serious. You probably thought I was joking in the article title, a cheap ploy to garner more clicks. And there are a few good reasons why this trade is unlikely to come to fruition: 1) There are practical baseball reasons why either side might say no. From the Yankees’ perspective, Miller is an incredibly […]

The Yankees came into Sunday looking for their first road series sweep since a four-game sweep against Oakland in mid-May. For the first four innings, it looked as if New York would do it. Brian McCann launched a solo shot to put the Yankees on the board in the second. Nathan Eovaldi started strong, retiring 12 […]

The sky was falling in Yankeeland just a few days ago. The team had lost four straight games, two to the Rockies, and had sunk three games under .500 and into last place in the division. To many it felt like the beginning of the end. But then the team traveled to Minnesota, and as has […]

Sometimes baseball players have slow starts to their season. They’ll slog through the early months of April and May and suddenly their bats will come alive as the weather warms up. For the past eight seasons, Yankee fans have watched as Mark Teixeira has struggled during almost every single April he’s been on the team […]

It used to take, after some deliberation, a few minutes to find the last effective start that CC Sabathia made. Now, you have to go back months to find his last bad outing, Like he’s been in his past seven starts, Sabathia was on point during his start on Thursday, leading the Yankees to a 4-1 win with […]