Dellin Betances isn’t just extraordinary, he’s unique. The 27-year-old has unparalleled size, a breaking ball that defies categorization, and he’s thrown 16 2/3 more innings than any other reliever in the majors over the last two years. On the surface his success is easy to understand. He throws hard, he misses bats and he’s durable. […]
Category: Articles
Yankees Top Prospects
System Overview Overall, 2015 was a success for the Yankees’ farm system. There was some turn over in the developmental team in the front office in 2014, with Director of Player Development Pat Roessler being fired and Mark Newman retiring from Senior Vice President of Baseball Operations. Gary Denbo took control of both positions, and the early […]
Is Chasen Shreve Broken?
The past month hasn’t been kind to the Yankees, with a combination of injuries and ineffectiveness causing the team to fall further out of first place in the AL East. The team has been dealt another blow in the sudden struggles of Chasen Shreve, who had been the team’s third best reliever. Things have gone […]
Yankees take Subway Series, look like a playoff team
NEW YORK — Anxiety. Conflict. Noise. Remove all context from Yankees-Mets on Sunday night and you would have thought you were witnessing playoff baseball at Citi Field. This felt different. This was the culmination of a season-long journey the Mets and their supporters have navigated through for months on end. Under the lights. A nation […]
Subway Series Preview: Can CC keep rolling?
The Yankees are preparing to play what might be their most anticipated regular season series of the year, against the Mets in Queens. While Aubrey “Drake” Graham might disagree with this sentiment, the city of New York is in wholehearted agreement. They will run into a Mets squad that’d won eight in a row before dropping their […]
Ivan Nova moves to the bullpen
Tommy John surgery is a devastating procedure. Not only does it sideline the injured player for upwards of a season, but also that player is almost never fully up to speed when they return to a big league field. Pitchers often don’t regain their control until months after they’ve been activated from the disabled list. […]
Recap: Yankees 3 Rays 6
One night after an unlikely source delivered perhaps the biggest Yankees hit of the season, New York came up short against the Rays in Tampa. There was some excitement when a two-base error brought the tying run to the plate in the ninth inning with two outs, but Brett Gardner flied out to left field […]
Brett Gardner is boringly consistent, but not consistently boring
When you watch a baseball game there’s always a chance you’ll see something you’ve never seen before. That’s because the sport is played in 30 different parks with countless variables that can affect play from weather conditions to fan involvement. For this reason, as well as human beings’ general attraction to novelty, we are always looking […]
For the 2015 Yankees, everyone has been better than projected
To view the Yankees as a contender entering 2015, you had to squint really hard and continually repeat the word, “if.” It seemed New York had a short to contend, only as long as just about everything went right. That meant Alex Rodriguez contributed, Mark Teixeira bounced back, Carlos Beltran and Brian McCann improved on […]
Running Base: Yankees drop a couple close calls
The past two nights at the Stadium in the Bronx couldn’t have gone much worse for the Yankees. With the lineup already ailing with Brett Gardner and Mark Teixeira sidelined, the Yankees learned before Tuesday’s game that right-hander Nathan Eovaldi will miss the rest of the regular season with elbow inflammation. Then the club went […]