Right now, a few of the Yankees are having a rough April at the plate which is making it so the team as a whole is also having a rough April. The Yankees are sitting in last place in the AL East, they can’t do anything with runners in scoring position and Wednesday night, you know what? […]
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Eovaldi, Tanaka and the simple reality of the splitter
Just over one percent of pitches thrown in the major leagues are splitters. It’s not as rare as the knuckleball, but it’s closer to being a knuckler than a cutter in its rarity. There are very few teams whose fates this season rest on their ability to either throw it or hit it. The pitch pokes […]
Game 13 Recap: So, this is frustrating
The feeling in New York right now is, undoubtedly, frustration. Despite live arms and plenty of run-scoring opportunities, the Yankees fell 2-5 to the Oakland A’s on Wednesday night in the Bronx. The Bombers are a promising team, but they just haven’t been able to put everything together; whether that be in terms of turning talent […]
Watch: Aaron Hicks guns down runner at plate with 105.5 mph throw
One of the Yankees’ strengths this season was supposed to be their defense, but it’s been anything but that in the early going. That doesn’t mean there hasn’t been any bright spots, though, and one of the most impressive plays of the season came from the right arm of Aaron Hicks on Wednesday night. The […]
A look back at the best Yankees farm system in decades
Despite being just over two weeks into the baseball season, there’s plenty of buzz about the Yankees’ Baby Bombers. As volatile as prospects can be, the past couple seasons have seen more good than bad news for Yankee farmhands. As a result, a farm system once stuck in a rut of mediocrity has turned into […]
Game 12 Recap: Canha get a hot tub after that loss?
Tuesday night wasn’t billed as a pitcher’s duel, but that’s what the fans at Yankee Stadium got. And after six innings, it was a battle of the bullpens. Normally, such late-inning affairs fall in favor of the Yankees. However, in an occurrence as rare as finding a unicorn, the Yankees bullpen was outpitched on Tuesday. […]
Film Study: An early assessment of C.C. Sabathia
C.C. Sabathia is not the pitcher he used to be. No longer can the 6-foot-7, 270-pound behemoth of a man strike out 200 batters, win 20 games or eat up 230 innings in a season. Elbow and knee injuries over the past couple of years have severely hampered Sabathia’s production and made his contract seem like a […]
Carlos Beltran: still good at hitting baseballs
The saying goes that the hardest thing to do in sports is to hit a baseball. A pitcher will throw the small ball towards the plate at extremely high velocities, and it is the hitter’s job to square up the ball on the barrel of his wooden club and hit it somewhere within a 90 […]
Luis Severino needs to slow it down
Fact No. 1: Luis Severino is incredibly tough to hit. Out of the eight stops in which Severino has pitched at least 20 innings in his professional career, he has allowed more than a hit per inning in exactly zero of those. Severino also has more career strikeouts than innings pitched in the minor leagues and […]
Game 11 Recap: Tanaka takes control
The Yankees were lifted to a 4–3 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday afternoon by Masahiro Tanaka and Alex Rodriguez, two players they desperately needed to play well. Tanaka out-dueled Hisashi Iwakuma, his former teammate in Japan, settling in after a rocky 24-pitch first inning and tossing seven innings of four-run ball. The Yankees ace hit […]