Click here to vote! This past Thursday morning, I broke one of my own unwritten rules: avoiding sports talk radio shows at all times. Not to disparage an industry that’s far more established and successful than I am, but I nauseate at the general lack of logic and civility. I find it exasperating that the […]
Tag: New York Yankees
The Unprecedented Misfortune of Bradley Jr. vs. Chapman
There are two different types of pain tolerance. The first is how much pain a person can handle in one single blow, or the “how much?” The second involves managing prolonged or repeated pain, or the “how many?” When a player gets hit by a pitch, it’s a matter of the first kind of pain tolerance: the “how much?” This […]
The 5 Best Moments of the Yankees’ Hot Streak
A dramatic, come-from-behind victory on a game-winning home run is the stuff of fantasy. Gleyber Torres’ walk-off three-run blast on Sunday afternoon could become a turning point of the 2018 season. It may be the moment on which we look back and say, “this was the when the Yankees solidified as a team.” But it probably won’t be […]
Three True Outcomes and the Yankees
It’s 2018 and you are an informed consumer of baseball knowledge. As such, you most likely already know about the three true outcomes- home runs, walks, and strikeouts- and why they are important. They are the only three major outcomes of a plate appearance that have nothing to do with defense and are almost entirely […]
The 2017 Yankees Were—NOT—A Great Home Run Team
The Yankees led all of baseball with 241 home runs last year, the 16th highest single-season total ever by a team. Aaron Judge set a MLB rookie record with 52, while Gary Sanchez’s 33 and Didi Gregorius’s 25 were franchise records for a catcher and shortstop. You knew all of that already. As Maude Lebowski […]
Moustakas makes sense for the Yankees
Last week on the Bronx Beat podcast, I expressed that I’d rather the Yankees sign Mike Moustakas to a one-year deal than Todd Frazier. Ever since that comment, I’ve been thinking over the one thing I said why I’d sign Moose: because he’s a left-handed bat in an overloaded right-handed lineup. Baseball pundits always preach […]
All about that base(running)
The 2017 season has gone remarkably well for the Yankees considering this was supposed to be the organization’s version of a rebuilding year. Prospects have turned into above average major league regulars. The bullpen has been one of the best in the game for the most part. Overall, it has been a solid year thus […]
The importance of Aroldis Chapman’s slider
If you were watching the ninth inning of the Yankees’ Tuesday night game against the Tampa Bay Rays (which, hooray, the Comcast customers among us can finally do now), you may have seen closer Aroldis Chapman do this to Rays second baseman Brad Miller: Aroldis Chapman threw an early contender for Pitching GIF of the […]
How Matt Holliday can boost the Yankees’ offense in 2017
One of the primary purposes of advanced statistics and tools like Statcast that have emerged in recent years is to better tell a story—the story of a particular player’s season or career. The story of why a team collectively struggles one year and does well the next with little roster manipulation. And sometimes they help […]
Why Didi Gregorius’s Success is Sustainable
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 […]