I have a confession: I kinda dig the extra innings tiebreaker rule. The Yankees haven't played an extra innings game yet, but I've seen it in action elsewhere around the league, and I like the chaos. I don't miss marathon extra innings games -- they're more fun as a concept than in reality -- and...
2020-08-14 14:40:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Good article by Marc Carig and Patrick Mooney (subs. req'd) detailing how the Yankees (and Cubs) have turned the team hotel into a bu...
2020-08-10 22:58:31 +0000 UTC View PostIf not for the expanded postseason format, this weekend's four games in three days series at Tropicana Field would have been a Very Big Deal. Instead, it feels like just another series to me. Maybe that'll change at first pitch, but the expanded postseason has eliminated some of the drama. Oh wel...
2020-08-07 13:59:23 +0000 UTC View PostNine games into the season -- 15% of the schedule -- the Yankees are 8-1 for only the third time in franchise history. They also did it in 1988 and 2003. According to FanGraphs, their postseason odds hav...
2020-08-04 13:36:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm gonna miss Tommy Tightpants. (Getty)
The pitching injury epidemic has hit the Yankees: Tommy Kahn...
2020-08-01 18:46:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe season is a week old but it doesn't feel like it. What a year this week has been. The Yankees are 4-1 (10.8-2.7) and they will play their first home game at Yankee Stadium later tonight, two days after they were originally scheduled to play their first game in the Bronx. "We’re drinking out...
2020-07-31 14:48:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe Yankees won games started by Max Scherzer and Patrick Corbin this weekend and lost a game in which Stephen Strasburg was scratched and replaced by Erick Fedde. Go figure. Gotta say though, the new postseason format has taken some of the edge off. Corbin mowed the Yankees down Sunday and I cau...
2020-07-28 00:24:10 +0000 UTC View PostEvery game this season is equivalent to 2.7 games in a 162-game season, so the Yankees are currently 2.7-0. Aside from the annoying rain delay, I'm not sure we could've scripted a better Opening Day win. Gerrit Cole tossed a complete game one-hitter and the offense banged against a three-time Cy ...
2020-07-24 14:29:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hooray baseball. (Photo via Presswire)
Weather permitting, the Yankees will open the 60-game 2020 season later tonight against the defending World Series champion Nationals in Washington. 2020-07-23 17:52:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Summer Camp started a few weeks ago but only now do I feel like baseball is really, truly back. The Yankees played other teams (!) in exhibition games the last three nights and it felt ... normal. It felt normal watching actual baseball games again even though not much about this season is normal...
2020-07-21 14:09:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The regular season is less than a week away and once teams begin traveling, the league's COVID-19 protocols will really be put to the test. "We got four months to go out and win a championship. We want everybody on the field. You can spit and chew sunflower seeds and go to a restaurant once this ...
2020-07-17 14:22:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Tigers prospect Riley Greene made a spectacular Endy Chavez-esque catch in left field during yesterday's intrasquad game. Here's the video. I bring this up because look at that joke of a swing. I kno...
2020-07-14 14:18:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe Yankees still have two open spots on the 60-man roster and you know, CC Sabathia is looking mighty fit these days. He's been hanging around the team in his special advisor role the last few days...
2020-07-10 13:56:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The Yankees played the Yankees tonight and the Yankees won, I think. The pitchers looked way ahead of the hitters, which isn't surprising after the long layoff. It'll take guys a while to find their rhythm at the plate. The Yankees will play the Yankees again tomorrow night and Gerrit Cole will b...
2020-07-07 01:58:15 +0000 UTC View PostIntake testing is complete and Summer Camp at Yankee Stadium officially begins later today. The Yankees will work out in staggered groups and they'll use all of Yankee Stadium to remain socially distant, so pitchers may do their flat ground work in the Great Hall. "The reason we're here now doesn...
2020-07-03 14:52:05 +0000 UTC View PostSpring Training 2.0 begins this week and it is officially "MLB Summer Camp presented by Camping World," because everything needs a sponsor. To be fair, Camping World sponsors Spring Training, and this is probably how MLB is fulfilling the contract after the shutdown. Today's thoughts? Today's tho...
2020-06-30 14:12:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Baseball is on the way back and I am weirdly ambivalent about it. I can't wait to watch some games, don't get me wrong, but labor battle fatigue has me feeling relieved more than excited, and of course I'm still worried about the pandemic. Completing this season without a major COVID-19 outbreak ...
2020-06-26 14:36:24 +0000 UTC View PostIn a world without pandemics, the Yankees would have opened a three-game home series with the Orioles last night. It would have been their 79th game of the season, meaning tomorrow's series finale would have been Game No. 81. Midpoint of the season. Instead, we're still waiting for Spring Trainin...
2020-06-23 12:55:17 +0000 UTC View PostSome of you may know Jay Gordon, who handled the technical side of RAB for years. Jay's wife Betsy ran RAB's Facebook account and was our social media guru for a while. Their dog Rico is having some health problems and 2020-06-19 13:57:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I didn't mention this last post because it was a happy fun day after the draft, but last Friday was the 257th day since the end of the 2019 regular season. This is the longest MLB has ever gone between r...
2020-06-16 14:40:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I hope Wells has a good bat flip tool. (Photo via 2020-06-12 15:08:56 +0000 UTC
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In a pandemic-less world the Yankees would have started a three-game home series with the Royals later tonight. It would've been their 67th game of the season. So much baseball has been missed already, and I feel like so much more baseball will be missed unnecessarily. Dark times for this sport. ...
2020-06-09 13:28:46 +0000 UTC View PostAs the NBA and NHL finalize their restart plans, MLB and the MLBPA continue to publicly bicker over money and season length. It's getting tiresome. I think bickering is better than radio silence, but who knows. I guess we'll find out eventually. Let's get to today's thoughts.
1. Ger...
2020-06-05 13:45:25 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first time since the shutdown, I am optimistic we will have baseball this year. I have upgraded from "hopeful" to "optimistic" because there has been (a little) progress on the money the last few days. Things are starting to move in the right direction. Hopefully MLB and the MLBPA figure ...
2020-06-02 14:16:56 +0000 UTC View PostI've been instructed to inform you Patreon is required by law to start collecting sales tax on July 1st. They're going to send you an email about i...
2020-05-29 13:24:26 +0000 UTC View PostIn a pandemic-free world, the Yankees would have wrapped up a four-game home series with the Mariners yesterday afternoon. It would've been their 54th game. The 2020 season should now be exactly one-third complete. Instead, it hasn't even started. I really miss baseball, you guys. I hope MLB and ...
2020-05-26 13:30:26 +0000 UTC View PostWhenever Spring Training 2.0 begins, teams will have the option of training at their spring complex or at their home ballpark, and Bob Klapisch hears the Yankees will train in Tampa rather than the Bron...
2020-05-22 13:51:42 +0000 UTC View PostTwenty-two years ago today Armando Benitez drilled Tino Martinez in the back, sparking the craziest baseball brawl I have ever witnessed. Here's my RAB Retro Week post on the b...
2020-05-19 14:04:38 +0000 UTC View PostSad news: former Yankees player and general manager Bob Watson passed away last night following a long battle with kidney disease, his family announced. He was 74. Watson played for the Yankees from 1980-82 and was the general manager from 1995-98. In 1996, he became the first African American ge...
2020-05-15 14:09:40 +0000 UTC View Post