Greg Bird’s MLB story feels a lot like Charlie Brown’s kicking career. Ever since his tantalizing finish to the 2015 season, we’ve expected him to lock down the first base position in the lineup. Even though injuries wiped out all of 2016 and most of last year, We still let Lucy tee up the football for […]
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That’s the Greg Bird We All Remember
Greg Bird’s Spring Training stats were fantastic: a .451 batting average with eight home runs and a slugging percentage over 1.000. His first 30 at bats of the season were the complete opposite: one hit, 13 strikeouts, and a smattering of walks to keep his OBP from sinking below the .100 mark. The staunch difference between the […]
A fan’s guide to coping with the Greg Bird injury
For some teams, a prospect coming up to the big leagues and thriving is a regular occurrence. How lovely it must be to be a Cardinals fan! For other teams, it’s a rare occurrence. For the Yankees, it hasn’t really happened since Brett Gardner or David Robertson. There’s been a constant stream of disappointment since then, […]
Greg Bird to miss 2016 season with torn labrum
Mere months ago, Greg Bird stole Yankees fans’ hearts, but the love affair is already on hold. Bird will miss all of the 2016 season with a torn labrum in his right shoulder, the Yankees announced Monday. According to a news release, the injury is a recurrence of an injury first sustained last May. Bird […]
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 […]
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 […]
Where do the Yankees put Greg Bird?
The Yankees are in a tough position. They have three good players and two spots to put them. This season, Mark Teixeira bounced back to hit .255 with 31 home runs in just 111 games with exceptional defense. He is clearly a player that needs to be starting for the Yankees at first base. Alex Rodriguez […]
Greg Bird is a talented impressionist
When Greg Bird was summoned from the minor leagues by the New York Yankees the goal wasn’t for him to replace Mark Teixeira. That would have been foolish. When Bird made his MLB debut on August 13th, Teixeira was performing like a fringe MVP candidate in the midst of his best season with the bat […]
The Ragin’ Avian
For months, we heard from the Yankees that Greg Bird was “untouchable” via trade. On Wednesday, Greg Bird personified that sentiment. It started as an average day for the 22 year-old. He grabbed coffee and breakfast with his folks. They drove him to the park from the hotel they’re staying at. He got in his […]
Yankees Midseason Top 15 Prospects
Now that the trade deadline has passed, we can all sigh with relief that the Yankees’ newfound prospect depth is almost entirely intact. Ramon Flores and Jose Ramirez, we hardly knew ye. What lies below is my entirely subjective and personal ranking of who I reason to be the fifteen best prospects in the Yankees’ […]