Last week on this site, Ben Diamond wrote that the Yankees might be approaching a brief drop in the standings as they prepare for the massive off-season in 2018 that could feature Bryce Harper, Andrew McCutchen, Manny Machado, Jose Fernandez, Matt Harvey and eleventy-seven other All-Stars. A year ago I would have wholeheartedly agreed with Ben’s […]
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Michael Pineda and Nathan Eovaldi are not actually the same person
When you are building a starting rotation it is usually wise to fill it with five different human beings. That’s par for the course and teams don’t tend to deviate from it. Four-man rotations can overburden arms, and cloning is far too expensive to be a feasible roster-building option. However, the New York Yankees have […]
Chase Headley is keeping poor company offensively
Chase Headley is one of the few players in baseball who’s simultaneously plenty good and quite disappointing. In 2012, he knocked 31 balls over the fence while calling Petco Field home and the world hasn’t quite adjusted its expectations. However, when the New York Yankees signed the third baseman to a four-year deal worth $52 […]
Are the Yankees approaching a rebuild?
Yankee fans are accustomed to rooting for a contending team. Although they haven’t made the playoffs in two out of the last three years, and lost in the wild-card game last season, there hasn’t been a shred of doubt that the front office will attempt to assemble a contender in 2016. While some skepticism is certainly warranted with the […]
Greg Bird Will Be a Twitter Star
More often that not professional athletes do not make for the best follows on Twitter. What they tend to put out is cliche-heavy statements in support of teammates and some thinly-veiled sponsored stuff. This isn’t to say that athletes are boring human beings, they just have a lot more to lose than to gain by […]
Who Wore It Best? The Top Yankees by Uniform Number
We all know the best Yankee ever to wear number two and number seven. But what about number 22? 48? 56? We dove into the wacky history of uniform digits to count up the best player to wear each pinstriped integer, with some fun uniform-number facts (mostly courtesy of Baseball-Reference) thrown in. 1 – Earle […]
A Preface to the Yankees in 2016
Welcome to 2016. I hope it’s treated you well thus far. It’s a fresh calendar, minus six days, one unmarred by green checks or red x’s on game days. There’s no win-loss record, no injuries but the ones carried over from last year’s carnage. There is only what lies ahead, a destiny that has yet […]
Brian McCann Has Never Caught Baseballs Worse than in 2015
Unlike in most jobs, the basic function of a catcher is inherent in the job title. If you tell someone at a cocktail party that you are a Regional Director of Electronics and Advanced Systems Engineering, there is a good chance they won’t know what you do on a day-to-day basis; if you tell them you’re a […]
Building a Bridge to the Elite Relievers
Following Monday’s trade for fireballer Aroldis Chapman, it’s quite clear that the Yankees have the best 1-2-3 ‘pen punch in the game, if not the best ever. Obviously, this absurd combination of high-strikeout and low-ERA relievers—Dellin Betances, Andrew Miller, and Chapman—has the Yankees’ relieving corps receiving some high praise. There’s one thing to keep in […]
Aroldis Chapman and the Cost of an Improved Seventh Inning
The Yankees might have the best bullpen of all-time in 2016. Between Dellin Betances, Andrew Miller, and now Aroldis Chapman, manager Joe Girardi will have at his disposal a three-headed monster of fire-balling relievers to guide him through innings seven through nine. Having an incredible bullpen will obviously help the Yankees. Besides thwarting comeback attempts […]