Without a dominant Luis Severino, it won’t be easy for the Yankees to do much damage in the postseason. How he went from potential Cy Young award winner earlier in the year to a drag on the staff every fifth day has been one of the 2018’s biggest frustrations. Though he seemingly pitched a tad better […]
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Unconventional Wild Card game strategies
Odds are that the Yankees are destined for the wild card game this year. Boston is currently five games ahead of the Bombers, giving the Red Sox a two in three chance of holding on for the division title. With the acquisition of Zach Britton yesterday, it’s evident that the Yankees are preparing for the likelihood […]
Sonny Gray is Struggling, but All is not Lost
In January, the New York Daily News published a column speculating on which starting pitchers the Yankees could add during July’s trade deadline. Seven months away. Before a pitch had been thrown at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida. Before Joe Kelly and Tyler Austin reignited the bitterness in a decades-old rivalry. Before Sonny Gray […]
Luis Severino, the New King of Velocity
After averaging 98.3 mph on his fastball in Sunday night’s marathon of a game, the same Luis Severino that went down with a tricep strain a year ago Friday, causing many of us without retrain to give up on a 22 year old arm, currently sits atop the velocity leaderboards on his fourseam fastball (starting pitchers, min. […]
The Yankees MiLB Week in Review: May 19-26
League Team Record GB Division TAv ERA International League Scranton Wilkes-Barre RailRiders 27-20 – North Division 0.263 2.92 Eastern League Trenton Thunder 25-19 5 Eastern Division 0.254 3.32 Florida State League Tampa Yankees 28-19 – North Division 0.272 3.19 South Atlantic League Charleston Riverdogs 29-16 – Southern Division 0.283 3.01 Top Performers Scranton: Jake […]
Luis Severino, home runs, and the big-league difference
Last year Luis Severino had an excellent season by all reasonable measures. He made quick work of the upper minors, and arrived with the New York Yankees in time to help them into the playoffs, all at the tender age of 21. By the end of the year, fans were praising Brian Cashman’s refusal to deal […]
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, […]
How the Yankees can remain contenders through their rebuild
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 […]
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 […]
Finding the Yankees a Young Starting Pitcher
So far this offseason, the Yankees have focused on bolstering their batting order through trades for outfielder Aaron Hicks and infielder Starlin Castro. But now, with the team’s position-player alignment pretty much set (barring a trade of Brett Gardner) it is time to talk about pitching. If the season started tomorrow, the Yankees’ starting rotation […]