NEW YORK — All good things must come to an end. Remarkably, the Yankees had been playing their best baseball of the season without three of their best players entering Friday, beginning their 10-game homestand with five wins in seven games. Not only did their hot streak come to an abrupt end, they lost yet another […]
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Yankees place Luis Severino on 15-day DL with right triceps strain
NEW YORK — After allowing a career-high seven runs on seven hits, four walks and a hit by pitch through 2 2/3 innings, it seemed as if things couldn’t get worse for Luis Severino. Then, he was examined at the hill and escorted off the field by trainer Steve Donahue with soreness in the back of […]
Weekend Series Preview: Yankees-White Sox
White Sox general manager Rick Hahn’s second attempt at retooling his roster has proven much more successful than his disastrous efforts the previous winter. Chicago appears to be a legitimate contender in the AL Central, with a healthy five game lead in the division after the first 35 games played. Their pitching has been the […]
Inside the return of Chase Headley
On Sept. 27, 2015, the world was supposed to end. A rare blood moon appeared in the sky, causing many to theorize that an asteroid was hurling toward Earth at a rate that would wipe out life as we know it. This total lunar eclipse was supposed to be the fulfillment of a prophecy. Well, the blood moon […]
Gary Sanchez called up to join Yankees
It’s been a long road for Gary Sanchez. His earliest entry in the BP annals dates all the way back to 2011, when he was ranked the 29th best prospect in the game. Between then and now, Sanchez fell in and out of favor many times over. The right-handed power never wavered, but concerns about […]
Game 33 Recap: The chase is over
Don’t look now, but the Yankees are heating up. After their worst start to the season in twenty years, the Yankees have quietly gone 5-2 over the past calendar week, and with a 7-3 win Thursday night, they’ve taken three of four from the world champion Royals in the process. The Yankee offense continued their […]
Watch: Chase Headley picks up first extra-base hit of season with two-run homer
Chase Headley entered Thursday without an extra-base hit in his last 111 at-bats, dating back to Sept. 27 of last season. That streak came to a merciful end in the second inning. Headley flipped a four-seamer at 93 mph from Ian Kennedy out to left field and snuck it over the wall for a two-run homer to […]
The Yankees MiLB Week in Review: May 5-12
2016 New York Yankees Affiliates League Team Record GB Division TAv ERA International League Scranton Wilkes-Barre RailRiders 16-15 2 North Division 0.265 3.25 Eastern League Trenton Thunder 16-12 4.5 Eastern Division 0.252 3.14 Florida State League Tampa Yankees 17-12 2 North Division 0.279 3.31 South Atlantic League Charleston Riverdogs 19-10 – Southern Division 0.274 3.10 […]
Game 32 Recap: Same Mike, Different Day
Sometimes one inning can make or break a game. Once again, Michael Pineda’s disastrous start to the game on Wednesday wound up being the Yankees’ undoing in a 7-3 loss. After allowing four runners to cross, Pineda now owns a 15.43 ERA in the first inning of his seven starts this season, and he knows it. […]
Predicting Pitches of Yankee Pitchers: Michael Pineda
As we know there is an endless amount of information to be uncovered from PITCHf/x and Statcast data. In fact, everyday it seems like there is some new and exciting piece of research that has come out which challenges the way we think about the game. In this series of posts I will go over […]