Do you know what happened 10 years ago today? 10 years ago today Robinson Canó officially signed with the Mariners (the agreement was reported a few days earlier). Usually when I share these “this date in Yankees history” nuggets, my reaction...
2023-12-12 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt has been two days and Juan Soto is still hitless as a Yankee. They gave up Mike King for this guy? Cashman failed. Anyway, during his conference call Thursday, Brian Cashman confirmed the Padres asked for Anthony Volpe and Jasson Domínguez ini...
2023-12-08 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Give up a homer to him
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UPDATE (10:07am ET): Jack Curry 2023-12-06 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a new No. 99 in the Bronx (I kid, I kid)
The Yankees have a new left-handed hitting outfielder, but not the one we all want. Late Tuesda...
2023-12-06 03:23:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe 2023 Winter Meetings are underway in Nashville and, one day in, it’s been pretty quiet. I had some free time Monday and figured I should cobble together the latest Yankees-related and Yankees-adjacent hot stove happenings, so let’s recap t...
2023-12-05 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe 2023 Winter Meetings are underway in Nashville and it felt wrong to wait until Tuesday to run this post, so let’s get it out there bright and early Monday morning, before things start happening. Remember, 2023-12-04 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hark, rumors.
The rumblings about a potential Juan Soto trade are growing louder. 2023-12-02 01:06:48 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: I accidentally hit publish early. This is the completed version of the post.
Earlier this week Yoshinobu Yamamoto won his third straight Pacific League MVP. He’s the third player in NPB history to...
2023-11-30 17:16:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe Thanksgiving weekend is over and MLB’s Winter Meetings are a week away. It’s time to get back to business. The hot stove is beginning to heat up and I hope the Yankees do something soon, mostly because I’m bored. 2023-11-27 20:09:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Reminder: I am skipping this Friday’s regularly scheduled post. I’ll cover any significant breaking news, otherwise I’m going to take it easy during the long Thanksgiving weekend. I hope you all have a great Turkey Day. Thanks as always for ...
2023-11-21 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThings are really quiet this offseason, no? Not just with the Yankees. I mean every team. By this time last offseason Teoscar Hernández had been traded and Anthony Rizzo had re-signed with the Yankees, among other moves. So far this offseason’s...
2023-11-17 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIn case you missed it, here is my 2023-24 Offseason Plan. Make sure you bookmark it for future mocking purposes. Also, a reminder: I’m planning to sk...
2023-11-14 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI started these Offseason Plans in 2016 and I u
2023-11-13 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBrian Cashman and Hal Steinbrenner held press conferences earlier this week and yeesh, the less said about them, the better. There was one small yet important piece of news though: Cashman confirmed there are no new injuries or surgeries to report...
2023-11-10 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSite note: I’m planning to skip the regularly scheduled post on Friday, Nov. 24th. That is two weeks from this Friday and it is the day after Thanksgiving. If there is breaking news, I will happily cover it, otherwise I’m going to lay low duri...
2023-11-07 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe 2023 MLB season is over and the 2023-24 offseason has arrived. Here’s the offseason calendar and what each date means for the Yankees, in case yo...
2023-11-03 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Rangers are the 2023 World Series champions and the offseason is here. The Yankees have been in offseason mode for over a month now and they should – should – be active this winter. They missed the postseason and posted their wors...
2023-11-02 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hal: “What more do you want? He’s already wearing pinstripes!”
By almost any measure, the Padres were the most disappointing team in baseb...
2023-10-31 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI know I recently said I would have Jung-Hoo Lee and Yoshinobu Yamamoto breakdowns before the end of October, but I’m going to push those back to ear...
2023-10-27 10:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostRemember the external front office audit? It hasn’t started yet. Bob Klapisch says...
2023-10-24 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt has been nearly three weeks since the Yankees last played a game and we’re still waiting on someone from the organization to say something. Season’s over dudes. Maybe say something about it? Whatever man. Why do I even care. Let’s get to ...
2023-10-20 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI think the Patreon formatting issues are a web Gmail issue. Everything looks like it should on the Patreon site and on the Gmail app, but not when I open the post email on my computer. Anyone having issues with other email services? Or a...
2023-10-17 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThank you for hanging in there while I get my bearings following this annoying Patreon update. I’m going to use today’s intro to conduct a brief experiment:
This text was copied over from Google docs and should be bold.
This t...
Site note: Patreon rolled out a massive update last week and reader, I hate it. The backend is clunky and needlessly complicated – why are the post editor and schedule/publish settings on different pages??? – and bold text did not show in the ...
2023-10-10 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHeck of a Wild Card Series for former Yankees pitchers: 24.1 IP, 19 H, 3 R, 4 BB, 25 K, 1 HR between Miguel Castro, Aroldis Chapman, Nathan Eovaldi, Sonny Gray, Chad Green, Jordan Montgomery, David Robertson, and the legend Joe Mantiply. I didn’...
2023-10-06 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSad news: Tim Wakefield passed away over the weekend. He was only 57 and commissio...
2023-10-02 17:41:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe final series of 2023 is upon us. This feels like the final series of 2013, when the 85-win Yankees closed out their season against the hard-tanking Astros in Houston. We all remember that series for Andy Pettitte’s complete game in the final...
2023-09-29 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostUPDATE: The Yankees made a late addition to their Arizona Fall League contingent Monday. It's been added to the AzFL section at the end of the post.
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Six games remain in the 2023 Yankees season and I am both happy...
2023-09-26 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe tragic number is down to three. Any combination of Yankees losses and wins by the third Wild Card team du jour totaling three will eliminate the Yankees from the Wild Card race. They’ve been out of the race for weeks, but soon it will be off...
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