Yankees
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Yankee Prudence
"Hal Steinbrenner" by Paul J. Bereswill Living in New York for most of the past decade, it's easy to pick up the rhythms of the metropolis's professional sports teams. It's well known the Yankees have changed since the…
Yankee Third Base Options
As soon as Alex Rodriguez 's 162-game suspension was announced, baseball writers and bloggers speculated as to who'd play 3rd base for the Yankees. Jay Jaffe summarized internal and free agent candidates to replace…
Green Wave Arms Race
It's nice to see a pitching prospect at Tulane with a sense of humor. Two months ago, in a piece on Hall of Fame basketball coach Greg Popovich , Joe Posnanski relayed a tale you may remember: Someone asks him how he…
MLB Team-by-Team At-a-Glance
More than half of today's games are matinees, including a couple of 12:35 ET starts in Baltimore and Cincinnati. So, we don't have all afternoon to craft a comprehensive This Moment in Baseball post. Instead, let's run…
"Let Cano Spread His Wings and Fly" -- Huh?
Robinson Cano 's impending contract extension or free agency, has been a recurring theme in the minds of Yankees fans over the past year, or so. A rising number of Yankees fans are growing tired of Cano's salary…
Ichiro's Next Stage
The day Ichiro Suzuki gets inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, will be a bright day for Baseball History. Ichiro has been a classy gentleman and ambassador for the game of baseball to…
Aramis and the Composition of Cano
Over the past few weeks, a bunch of stuff has been on my mind, and occasionally I'll try to document it somewhere, so that I won't forget it. Sometimes, it's a solitary tweet, like my shout out to Aramis Ramirez on…
The Robinson Cano Dilemma
A debate among New York Yankees fans has been heating up over the past few days: the debate to trade Robinson Canó , or extend his contract, to a nine-figure deal, keeping him in the Bronx for the next several years.…
Postseason Brackets
Sitting in my office, minding my own business, and messing around with 2012 Park Factors , my colleague asks me for help filling out his MLB playoff brackets for a pool he's in. Not many people do baseball brackets, and…
MLB Attendance Trends
Since the All-Star Game is the proverbial midway point of the season, let's take a look at per game attendance trends of each Major League club, compared to last season. After the chart below, we'll try to make some…
State of the Disabled List
Jason Martinez, of the remarkably comprehensive website MLBdepthcharts.com , tweeted a keen observation on Sunday: According to my calculations, there are 166 players on the DL. #Padres lead league with 14. #Rangers…
Thoughts from the Air
A view from the cockpit. It's Saturday morning, and I'm flying from New York to Chicago, with aspirations to see the Dodgers at Wrigley this afternoon. Thinking back on recent days around baseball, developments have…
Spanning the Blogosphere
Featuring quotes and whispers from sites around the globe. Freddy Garcia could use an attitude adjustment, as he does not at all appear to be pleased that his team is trying to get better by bringing back one of the…
Notable Recent MLBTR's
Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Don't mix grain and grape. While reading the indispensable Mlbtraderumors.com , I jotted down notes from tidbits that for one reason or another jumped off the page. As they say on Tosh.O ,…
Jesus Montero in the Tools of Ignorance
Yahoo posted this AP picture on their site from yesterday: Mariners fans, and Jesus Montero fantasy owners, hope he protects his bare hand on defense. There was no corresponding story on yahoo, but at least we see Jesus…
Options for the Yankee Rotation
As we learned from Ben Nicholson-Smith's engaging summary of the NYY portions of Joel Sherman's column from Friday : The Yankees have “looked into” Matt Garza, but a Cubs official downplayed the likelihood of any deal…
Contact and Power in the Postseason
There are four playoff games today, which should be great fun to follow. In anticipation of the excitement, we thought it would be fun to check in on the players in the postseason to see which batters have the lowest…
MLB Division Series Sunday Recaps
Friends and visitors, let's try something a little different today. Tigers 5, Yankees 3 Series tied 1-1 Heroes: Max Scherzer silenced the Yankee bats and his critics who claimed his inconsistencies suggested he couldn't…
2011 Ex Cub Factor
The playoffs begin today. Since my favorite team, the Chicago Cubs, tanked and haven't been competitive in years, all I can do is watch and fight my jealous feelings. We're not really into gambling over here, but…
Landing Spots for Juan Carlos Oviedo
When Leo Nuñez was placed on the Restricted List for a personal reason late last week, people expected it was a family emergency or visa problem. In actuality, he was involving himself in the process of reassuming his…
Chatty Subway
The fourth car of the #5 express train this morning was abnormally chatty. A few individuals encroached on my commuting solitude with their annoying and incessant pre-8am conversations. I don't really have much baseball…
Recent Seats
I've been fortunate enough to go to the Knicks/Nets game last Wednesday and the Yankee game this past Saturday . I'm just sharing here, but these were the views from my seats. I won't bore you with any more incessant…
Remembering Pavano the Yankee
Yankee fans have many reasons to have negative feelings towards Carl Pavano . Even fans who do not embrace advanced baseball statistics in general, or Wins Above Replacement in particular, can agree that…
Best Jersey Shore Yankee Fans GIF
Since these Yankee fans became folk heroes, there have been a few GIF images created of the moment. I think I liked this one the most ( let's hope this works ): Update: Click on image to open a new page with GIF
Perceptions of Yankee Fandom
Editorial note: this may lead nowhere, no hard feelings if you stop reading what I think may be a nonsensical and misguided diatribe. Thanks for stopping by. Jealousy * (n.): resentment against a rival, a person…
A New Breed of Yankee Fans
I have two friends from college who are from Baltimore, were Orioles fans, and somehow adapted and became Yankee fans. At different times, I've given them each grief over the matter. I mean, those are bitter rivals.…
2010 Ex-Cub Factor
There's reason for hope in Philadelphia. Although Roy Halladay lost game one of the NLCS, the infamous ex-Cub factor, which was orignially penned by Ron Berler in the Boston Herald on October 15, 1981, gives hope to the…
Halladay in the History Books
Quick, think of the best pitching performances you've ever seen or heard of. What comes to mind? Roy Halladay tonight? Roy Halladay's perfect game? Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series? Koufax in '65? Jack…
2010 MLB Postseason Picks
As loyal readers of this space know, we spent a lot of time calculating comparisons of expected outcomes for the postseason teams. The rewards of that exercise are hard to quantify, which is a euphemistic was of saying…
Sizing Up the AL Playoffs, Part III
Anticlimactic (an-ti-cli- mac -tic) adj: of, relating to, or marked by an outcome that is strikingly less important than expected. Ouch. We have been hoping that dabbling with baseball statistics for the Yankees, Rays,…
Sizing Up the AL Playoffs
We don't usually show our math work like we did when figuring Cubs' arbitration numbers in our last post . When looking at predictions , we traditionally do no math at all. Of course, I'll look up stats to see what's…
Aug 31 MLB Predictions
It's late in the season, and it's a shame that it looks and feels like a good number of teams really have no chance at the postseason. According to coolstandings , Eighteen teams have less than a 5% chance at the…
Happy Aroldis Chapman Day
Since this past weekend, I started a post that is currently approaching 8,000 words. I'm not quite sure what to do about it because it takes a rare breed to want to read that much about what I was thinking on Friday…
It's Prime Time for Betemit
We used to be really high on Wilson Betemit . He was sort of a cult favorite of ours because he had little fan fare, but we liked the way he looked. He looked a bit overweight in his early 20's, and he was a…
Yankee Puma & Austin's Power
The Yankee clubhouse just got a whole lot classier . If Lance Berkman does not fit in with the Yankees, it will be because there is something wrong with the Yankees. I think guys like Cap'n Jetes, Swish, AJ & CC,…
No Outline, No Rough Draft
We usually try to be somewhat buttoned up on these posts. Usually, there is an outline or rough draft that we reread and spell check. Since it is 12:45 AM on Sunday morning, I'm just going to jot down a few quick…
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