The trade deadline is somehow only three days away (6pm ET on Tuesday) and the Yankees, clearly, need help. They need pitching help, they need lineup help, they need general depth, they need all of it. T...
2024-07-27 14:55:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe Old Timers’ Game will not return this season. Dan Martin says the Yankees will instead hold an event for the 15th anniversary of the 2009 World Series team. There h...
2024-07-26 10:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostTen years ago yesterday the Yankees traded for Chase Headley. He got to Yankee Stadium in the middle of that night’s game (video), then looped a walk-off single to shallow left in the 14 inning (2024-07-23 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: I've been told some folks did not receive today's post email, so I'm resending it. There is no update to the post below. Just sending out another email.
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ORIGINAL POST: The All-Star break is over and the Yankees open the second ...
2024-07-19 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Gotta call him Hess Truck at 6-foot-5 and 255 lbs., right?
The 2024 MLB Draft is complete and 615 picks were made across 20 rounds. The Yankees neither gained nor lost picks via free agent compen...
2024-07-18 10:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
At 58-40, the Yankees entered the All-Star one game back in the AL East, 5.5 games up on a Wild Card spot, and with baseball’s fourth best record and second best run differential (+106). Improbable, re...
2024-07-16 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe 2024 draft began Sunday night and the Yankees used their first round pick (No. 26) on Alabama RHP Ben Hess, who I did not write up. They used their second pick (No. 53) on 2024-07-15 10:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
We’ve made it. The final post of the first half. The Yankees have three games in Baltimore this weekend, the draft begins Sunday night, the All-Star break is next week, and then the second half begins next Friday in the Bronx. As for the blog, this is what I’m thinking next week:
UPDATE: It has been brought to my attention that some folks did not receive today's email, so I'm sending it again. There are no updates to the post below, just another email.
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ORIGINAL POST: Terrible news: ESPN picked up Yankees vs. Re...
2024-07-09 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAs expected, Aaron Judge was named AL Player of the Month for June, which usually happens when you slash .409/.514/.864 (277 wRC+) with 11 homers in said month. He’s currently on pace for 102 extra-base hits (101 if we assume he won’t hit another triple). Judge gave the rest of the league a h...
2024-07-05 10:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostAaron Judge is officially an All-Star. He led all players in votes in Phase 1 and that got him an automatic starting spot (Bryce Harper got the NL’s automatic spot). This is Judge’s sixth ...
2024-07-02 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostYou gotta hand it to the 2024 Yankees. They’ve managed to (temporarily, I hope) suck the fun out of baseball despite having Juan Soto and Aaron Judge. I didn’t think such a thing was possible. Gleyber Torres is all of us watching this team right now:
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Watching the College World Series over the weekend made me wonder how we ever had baseball without a pitch clock. Oh there is a pitch clock in college, but it’s 20 seconds with or without runners on base, and it feels like an eternity. I can’t imagine anyone truly misses getting to the sixth ...
2024-06-25 10:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: Forget Garrett Cooper. The Yankees acquired the recently DFAed J.D. Davis and cash from the Athletics for minor league infielder Jordan Groshans, the team announced. Davis w...
2024-06-23 16:29:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe great Willie Mays passed away earlier this week. He was 93. The list of ballplayers I wish I could have seen play...
2024-06-21 10:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostUPDATE: The Yankees are indeed calling up Ben Rice to replace Anthony Rizzo, according to Joel Sherman. Rice, 2024-06-18 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Turns out the new road jerseys were Aaron Judge’s idea. Well, not entirely. Judge liked the throwb...
2024-06-14 10:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostI don’t know how many of you made it out to Yankee Stadium this weekend, but my goodness, what an atmosphere. It was postseason-like between the crowd, the hordes of media, every pitcher throwing 1-2 mph harder than usual, and the way the Yankees played (kidding!). There were two home teams. Wh...
2024-06-10 10:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAll-Star Game voting opened earlier this week, if you’re into that. It’s two phases again. Phase 1 runs through June 27th, and the top three vote-getters at each position advance to Phase 2. A fresh round of voti...
2024-06-07 10:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostUPDATE: My bad, folks. Anthony Volpe's triple did not tie the game Sunday. It merely drove in a run and put the tying run at third. Doesn't make Volpe's triple any less impressive, of course. I've corrected the post below (the Soto section).
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2024-06-04 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI don’t know about you, but I’m ready for this West Coast trip to be over. Not for baseball reasons. For sleep reasons. Once upon a time West Coast trips were light work. Stay up late, watch the Yankees, then wake up bright and early the next day feeling like a million bucks. These late night...
2024-05-31 10:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Between now and next Monday, the Yankees have a decision to make with Jasson Domínguez. Today is Day 15 of El Marciano’s 20-day rehab assignment, so, come Monday, he has to come off the injured list. ...
2024-05-28 10:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostIt hadn’t occurred to me that Petco Park was the Yankees’ longest ballpark “drought” until Michael Kay mentioned it during Friday’s broadcast. Before this weekend the Yankees had not played in Petco Park since 2016 (not counting the 2020 pandemic postseason). They had played in each of ...
2024-05-27 10:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostI’m not sure when exactly it happened, but at some point during the homestand Aaron Judge moved into the franchise’s top 24 in WAR. He bumped Jorge Posada out. Open up the Yankees’ franchise page at Baseball R...
2024-05-24 10:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe Yankees had their first seven-game winning streak since Sept. 2022 snapped in rather brutal fashion Monday, though they are 12-2-1 in their 15 series this season. James Smyth says it’s ...
2024-05-21 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI get a kick out of the “these Twins are different! they’re not a pushover anymore!” takes we see each year, only for the Yankees vs. Twins series to play out like a bug hitting a windshield. Minnesota had lost only three times in the 20 games prior to this week’s series, then they lost t...
2024-05-17 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostPaul Skenes, the No. 1 pick in the 2023 draft, made his MLB debut Saturday and struck out seven Cubs in four innings 2024-05-13 10:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Fun fact: Wednesday and Thursday were only the third time this season the Yankees allowed at least four runs in back-to-back games (they also did it in Arizona and Toronto). They’re the only team to not allow at least four runs in three straight games at any point this year. Every other team ot...
2024-05-10 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostDoes it feel like the Yankees play an inordinate amount of close games? Well, you’re not wrong. Sunday’s win was their 24th game decided by two or fewer runs (they're 15-9 in those games). The Cubs are a distant second with 20 such games. The Yankees have the baseball's best record in one-run...
2024-05-07 10:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostNot sure about you, but I love Joe Girardi in the YES booth. He can be funny and he has good stories, two important broadcaster qualities for me, and he knows the modern game. With all due respect to David Cone, Paul O’Neill, and the other former players on the YES roster, they haven’t played...
2024-05-03 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post