The Yankees have two chances to win one game to advance to their fourth ALCS in the last eight years. A late-inning homer and more excellent bullpen work gave the Yankees a 3-2 win over the Royals in Gam...
2024-10-10 10:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe Yankees will finally play another baseball game tonight. Between the Wild Card Series bye and all the ALDS off-days, they’ve played two games in the last nine days. This is me complaining as a fan who wants to watch the Yankees play baseball. I’m not saying all this time off puts the Yank...
2024-10-09 10:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I gotta tell ya, if I’m the Royals, I’m feeling pretty good about escaping Yankee Stadium with a split after Bobby Witt Jr. went 0-for-10 in Games 1 and 2 and the two starters each went four innings....
2024-10-08 13:59:51 +0000 UTC View Post
It wasn’t the prettiest win, but it was a win, and there are no bonus points for style. The Yankees beat the Royals 6-5 in Game 1 of the ALDS and are two wins away from their fourth ALCS in the last ei...
2024-10-06 14:21:48 +0000 UTC View PostI said it Friday and it’s worth repeating: The Yankees may never have a better chance to win the World Series in the Gerrit Cole/Aaron Judge era than they do this year. The Royals and either the Guardians or Tigers stand between them and the pennant, and there’s no superteam in the NL. Maybe ...
2024-10-05 15:39:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week I answered a mailbag question about both teams celebrating postseason clinchers after a game,...
2024-10-04 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
The best-of-three Wild Card Series gets underway Tuesday and the Yankees will be interested observers. They’ll spend the week sleeping in their own beds, playing simulated games, and waiting to find ou...
2024-10-01 10:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Longtime RAB readers and hardcore prospect watchers may remember catcher Gustavo Campero. He spent a few years in the Yankees’ system and had a big rookie ball debut in 2017 (.292/.444/.521 and 174 wRC+), but the bat stalled, and the Yankees cut him loose after the 2020 pandemic season. The Ang...
2024-09-30 10:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostMY BAD: Sorry everyone, I accidentally scheduled this post for 6pm ET instead of 6am ET. That's why it was late today. My mistake.
ORIGINAL POST: The Dominican Winter League is indeed coming to Yankee Stadium. It was made official earlier this wee...
2024-09-27 12:45:53 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: The Yankees placed Cortes on the 15-day injured list with a flexor strain, they announced this afternoon. Poteet was called up in a corresponding move and Stroman will start...
2024-09-25 15:32:52 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s official: There will not be a 100-win team this year. First time since 2014. The Dodgers and Phillies both took their 63rd loss over the weekend to clinch it (the Yankees lost their 63rd game last weekend, the Rafael Devers intentional walk game). There were at least three 100-win teams ev...
2024-09-24 10:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSurprise: Alex Cora was not disciplined for admitting the Red Sox threw at Aaron Judge last weekend. I guess his comment was vague enough – “We had our shot in the sixth inning and it didn't happen” – to escape punishment. “We got too much important things going on in front of us right ...
2024-09-20 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostImportant mailbag follow-up: I answered a mailbag question about splash hits at Oracle Park before the Yankees visited San Francisco earlier this season, and whether Aaron Judge or Giancarlo Stanton...
2024-09-17 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Earlier this week Marcus Stroman was named the Yankees’ nominee for the 2024 Roberto Clemente Award, which recognizes players for their charitable work and community involvement. Among other things, 2024-09-13 10:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s time for the annual post: Saturday afternoon the Yankees won their 82nd game and clinched their 32nd consecutive winning season. They haven’t had a losing season since going 76-86 in 1992. This is the second longest streak of winning seasons not just in baseball history, but in the histo...
2024-09-09 10:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostFor the third time this season, Aaron Judge was named AL Player of the Month. He slashed .389/.530/.856 (268 wRC+) with 12 homers in August. Per 2024-09-06 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
For the first time since 2019, the Yankees entered September with the best record in the American League. The last two and a half months haven’t been the prettiest, I know, but the Yankees are 79-58 with a +121 run differential. They’re one up in the loss column in the AL East. As a certain s...
2024-09-02 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostJazz Chisholm Jr. slugged a solo home run in the eighth inning Monday (video) and, in the grand scheme of things, it didn’t mean much. It put the Y...
2024-08-30 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostOld Timers’ Day was Saturday and, depending who you ask, the players either want an Old Timers’ Game (CC Sabathia) or say they can’t do it because everything hurts (2024-08-26 15:46:44 +0000 UTC View Post
The folks at Pitch Profiler had a fun list the other day. They measured the most “feared” hitters by comparing the difference between Stuff+ when a pitcher faces a specific hitter and when they face...
2024-08-23 10:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI need to correct something I posted earlier this month. I misread the postseason schedule and there is an off-day between Games 4 and 5 of the ALDS. The ALDS schedule is Game 1, off-day,...
2024-08-19 17:18:07 +0000 UTC View PostOld Timers’ Day is next Saturday, Aug. 24th, and Alex Rodriguez will be there. The Yankees announced the list of attendees earlier this w...
2024-08-16 10:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Jazz Chisholm Jr. suffered a UCL injury in his left elbow on that play at the plate Monday night (2024-08-13 22:31:31 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s kinda remarkable there are no powerhouse teams this year, isn’t it? No team is on pace to win more than 96 games. Excluding 2020, there have been at least three 100-win teams every year since 2016, and at least one 98-win team every year since 2013. Call it parity, call it mediocrity, ca...
2024-08-13 10:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostI was hard up for CBS content the other day so I turned something I mentioned in Tuesday’s post – Juan Soto is on pace for a top five offensive season by a Yankee in the Expansion Era – into...
2024-08-09 10:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostGot a few (free) links to pass along. First, Michael Baumann wrote about the historic greatness of the Aaron Judge/Juan Soto duo (and the Yankees being so ...
2024-08-06 10:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Could you imagine giving up a grand slam to DJ LeMahieu? Or losing to Road Nestor Cortes? Or letting Clay Holmes nail down a save? Phillies fraud status: confirmed. For real though, the Yankees are a per...
2024-08-02 10:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
The trade deadline came and went Tuesday and it was a quantity over quality deadline league-wide. Lots and lots of trades, but the biggest name to change teams was … Jazz Chisholm Jr.? Maybe Randy Aroz...
2024-07-31 00:26:09 +0000 UTC View PostUPDATE: My note about Marcus Stroman's player option in the Miscellany section is wrong. The player option is tied to his innings in 2025, not 2024. The usually reliable 2024-07-29 10:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: The Yankees have announced the trade and it is as reported: Chisholm for Serna and the two Ramirezes. No word on when Jazz will join the Yankees. Hopefully Sunday, but it mi...
2024-07-27 21:27:41 +0000 UTC View Post