Games Monday, March 14 The Yankees began this week with a much-deserved day off. There were no games or workouts scheduled. Tuesday, March 15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Yankees 0 0 1 0 0 5 0 5 0 6 7 1 Red Sox 1 0 […]
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Starlin Castro shows us something new
As spring training marches on and we get anxious for regular-season baseball, the search for meaning in meaningless games reaches a fever pitch. Most lineups and rotations around baseball are more or less set. The positional battles still underway are largely of the inconsequential variety, and making a baseball team on Opening Day is overrated […]
Checking in on the rest of the AL East
Once again, the American League East is shaping up to be a chaotic assortment of teams with no clear favorite to win the division. The Yankees have more question marks than some other teams, but there’s no one team that screams “juggernaut” here. While some teams have more warts than others, the East is a […]
Banality may be out of reach for Yankees’ trio
When the New York Yankees acquired Aroldis Chapman in December it was clear they’d built something extraordinary in the back end of their bullpen. The trio of Chapman, Andrew Miller and Dellin Betances is downright bogus. It’s the bullpen equivalent of having Bryce Harper, Mike Trout and Giancarlo Stanton in the lineup, with all their at-bats […]
Who Is the New Face of the Yankees?
As Derek Jeter exited the field in Fenway Park following the final at bat of his career, I, along with scores of other baseball fans, felt pangs of sadness. It seemed obvious why we felt this way—the legend we had the pleasure of watching for 20 years was finally ending his career. But there was […]
Spring Training Recap: Week Two
Games Monday, March 7th 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Astros 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 6 0 Yankees 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 1 Monday marked the Spring Training debut for Michael Pineda, who went two […]
Gossage’s criticism of Bautista on shaky ground
Rich “Goose” Gossage is many things. He’s a Hall of Famer, a guy who used to throw baseball really fast and a former New York Yankee. He’s an also old white guy from Colorado. On Thursday he sounded far more like the latter than the former. Gossage took the “kids today don’t know what’s what” […]
We can learn a lot from this Aaron Hicks Instagram photo
On Tuesday evening, Yankees outfielder Aaron Hicks brought us inside a team dinner by posting a group shot to Instagram. It was a quite glorious photo. Here are some important takeaways: Didi Gregorius’s shirt reads “Education is Importanter, Baseball is Importantest,” which is incredible. Slade Heathcott is an expert chopstick user. Chris Parmelee is fitting in […]
Spring Training Recap: Week One
Congratulations, Yankees fans, you’ve survived the offseason! It was a rough one, especially with the Yankees refusing to sign a free agent, but that’s all behind us now. It’s finally March, which means that spring training is here. These exhibition games won’t feature the most exciting and pivotal action that you’ll witness this season, but […]
Breaking Down the Aroldis Chapman Suspension
When Aroldis Chapman was traded to the Yankees for four average prospects (Eric Jagielo, Rookie Davis, Caleb Cotham, and Tony Renda) in late-December, it was a surprisingly modest return for the Reds. Chapman was undoubtedly the best closer in the National League, if not in all of baseball, and the prospects going back to the Reds […]