In the winter of 2014, the New York Yankees were searching for someone to replace Derek Jeter. Okay, maybe “replace” is not quite the right word, but with the future Hall-of-Famer retiring, the Yankees had no clear internal options to fill the void Jeter was leaving behind. Brian Cashman was left with the daunting task of finding someone […]
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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 […]
Was the 2009 Yankees Infield the Best Infield of All-Time?
The other day I was thinking about the 2009 Yankees (because that’s what you do as a Yankee fan when you can’t really remember the late 90s) and found myself marveling for the umpteenth time at how incredible their infield was: Mark Teixeira, Robinson Cano, Derek Jeter, and Alex Rodriguez all had good years at […]
How Didi Gregorius will differentiate himself from Derek Jeter
On a forgettable opening day for the New York Yankees, one of the most significant changing of the guards in recent memory took place. After 20 seasons of watching Derek Jeter start at shortstop, Yankees fans saw Didi Gregorius try to fill an impossibly large pair of shoes. Gregorius isn’t going to be a worthy […]