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What happened to the Yankees? And how do they get back on track?
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An up-and-down debut season leaves much up to doubt, but it could have gone much worse for Volpe.
As perhaps the biggest story coming out of the Yankees’ spring training camp in 2023, Anthony Volpe entered his debut season with some serious weight on his shoulders. Shortstop was a big question mark for the club entering spring, and in a surprise move, the Yankees opted to give Volpe, their top prospect and a top-ten prospect overall, a chance right out of...
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The first truly great Yankees closer gets his due.
Name: Albert Walter “Sparky” Lyle
Position: Relief pitcher
Born: July 22, 1944 (Du Bois, PA)
Yankee Years: 1972-78
Primary number: 28
Yankee statistics: 745.2 IP, 420 G, 57-40, 2.41 ERA, 2.91 FIP, 148 ERA+, 141 SV, 454 K, 15.1 fWAR, 14.9 rWAR
The Yankees had pitchers who racked up saves before Sparky Lyle came along, before the contemporary definition of closer came into being in the mid-...
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Does the KBO star make sense for the Yankees?
KBO, South Korea’s baseball league, is known for a flashier style of play than MLB features. Players sell out on the fastball and pimp home runs in a way we just don’t see stateside, but Jung Hoo Lee is a little bit different. In many ways, he’s the ultimate contact hitter, hitting .340 and walking more than he’s struck out in seven years in the KBO. He’s going to be posted this winter,...
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A fine offseason Tuesday.
There was some thought that the free agency of Yoshinobu Yamamoto could hold up the rest of a robust pitching market, but thus far, that hasn’t been the case. Aaron Nola signed the first big contract of the offseason last week, re-upping with Philadelphia for seven years, and yesterday, former Yankee Sonny Gray signed on for three years and $75 million with the Cardinals, who have also added Lance Lynn and Kyle Gibson to...
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Yanks expect to be “active” on the market; Shota Imanaga officially posted; MLB Draft odds ahead of the second-ever lottery; looking back on some of the worst deals still active
MLB.com | Bryan Hoch: The Yankees weren’t great last year, and everyone knows that they need some upgrades. How many and how big, no-one is sure, but the one thing that they’ve made apparent is they’re keeping channels open with almost all of the...
Get your thoughts in ahead of the Winter Meetings kicking off.
We're back again for another crack at the mailbag. The past two weeks have been fairly uneventful across the baseball world: aside from the Phillies re-signing Aaron Nola and the Cardinals grabbing Sonny Gray, there hasn't been a lot of activity to report.
That said, the landscape can always change after a single move, and big moves are always on the horizon when the Winter Meetings kick off. That'll be in a week's time,...
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The rookie righty more than acquitted himself as both a starter and a reliever in 2023.
When the Yankees broke camp in late March, they had to feel confident in the outlook for the starting rotation. With Gerrit Cole leading the way, Nestor Cortes coming off a career year, Carlos Rodón signed to a mega-deal after his own career year, Luis Severino having a mostly healthy offseason under his belt, and Clarke Schmidt and Domingo Germán in competition for...
The New York Yankees are expected to be aggressive in free agency to improve their roster after a subpar 2023 season, but they're reportedly not in the…
Through a pair of two-year stints in New York, Boomer made his presence well known in the Bronx.
Name: David Lee Wells
Position: Starting pitcher
Born: May 20, 1963 (Torrance, CA)
Yankee Years: 1997-98, 2002-03
Primary number: 33
Yankee statistics: 851.2 IP, 124 G, 68-28, 3.90 ERA, 3.81 FIP, 114 ERA+, 19 CG, 9 SHO, 557 K, 17.0 fWAR, 17.1 rWAR
In New York particularly, a big personality as well as excellent play on the field can be necessary for success. Each of these shined at...
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Hernández is inconsistent and his on-base skills are far from elite, but he could provide some much-needed impact power in the middle of the Yankees lineup.
Teoscar Hernández has a reputation for being a powerful slugger with issues getting consistently on base and a suspect glove. Whether all of those things remain true remains to be seen and will be discussed in this article, but the fact is that he is now a free agent and teams can gamble on...
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Monday brings us a day closer to December arriving.
Welcome to another Monday folks. This one brings with it good news, as we’re just one week away from the Winter Meetings beginning in Nashville. The event is typically the benchmark for free agency picking up, and there’s bound to be some notable action abound in this year’s edition — at the very least, Yoshinobu Yamamoto is expected to start sitting down with teams after the meetings wrap up on the...
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Which under-the-radar players might the Yankees be interested in; retooling the bullpen with non-tendered players; a pair of lefty outfielders.
MLB.com: While everybody focuses on the top of the market — the guys like Shohei Ohtani, Cody Bellinger, and Juan Soto — the most important moves of the season are often the players who go under the radar: see, for example, the Yankees’ 2019 signing of DJ LeMahieu. MLB.com’s writers, who go...
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No Yankees actually posted about Thanksgiving, but Aaron Judge’s number was retired by Fresno State.
It’s Sunday once again, and you know what that means — it’s time for our weekly social media roundup! As the days get shorter, the nights get longer, and the 2023 Yankees season shrinks further into the rearview mirror, but still we stand guard, following our favorite Yankees heroes — on social media, that is. Let’s get started!
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Injuries over the past two seasons add significant risk to a pursuit of the Cardinals outfielder.
This offseason for the Yankees will be defined by their pursuit of starting pitching and outfield reinforcements. They are linked to the names at the top of those respective markets, with rumors continuing to swirl around their interest in Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Juan Soto, and Cody Bellinger.
Should they whiff on the latter two targets, the quality of...
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Tom Tresh was a consistent, multi-positional player who thrived during a transitional period for the Yankees.
Name: Thomas Michael Tresh
Position: Shortstop, Outfield
Born: September 20, 1938 (Detroit, MI)
Died: October 14, 2008 (Venice, FL)
Yankee Years: 1961-69
Primary number: 15
Yankee statistics: 1,098 G, .247/.337/.413, 166 2B, 33 3B, 140 HR, 116 wRC+, 21.4 rWAR, 22.7 fWAR
Tom Tresh was a multi-positional All-Star and World Series Champion who...
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The offseason might be a zero sum game for the AL East.
Offseason urgency is always high for Yankees fans. When you’re the Yankees, you have a chance at every free agent in existence. It’s perfectly reasonable to maintain a more or less perpetual expectation that some of the better ones will find their way to the Bronx every year.
Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn’t. When they hold their checkbooks for a year or two to...
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Meadows hasn’t logged a full season since 2021, but he has a strong track record at the plate.
In 2023, the Yankees outfield became a swirling mixture of replacement-level players and mediocrity after Aaron Judge’s injury in Los Angeles. The organization scrambled to replace its most important player and didn’t have much of a plan beyond cross-your-fingers journeymen like Willie Calhoun, Franchy Cordero, and Billy McKinney.
The outfield lacked depth, and...
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We ease out of Thanksgiving and back towards the hot stove.
It’s thankfully been a quiet Thanksgiving week for the most part, giving us all a chance to breathe during the holiday. With much of the country heading back towards normal life today, expect to see some more hot stove action in the coming days. There haven’t been many Yankee-related rumors lately, so hopefully they start to kick into gear a bit this week.
We’ll have plenty...
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MLB insider details how Yoshi Yamamoto will choose his team; MLB squads facing most offseason pain if they fail to deliver top talent; Yanks minor league pitching gets excellent grades per Baseball America
SNY | Andy Martino: Yoshinobu Yamamoto was officially posted earlier this week, and will take his time to choose his MLB team wisely. Martino explained the process that the star right-hander and his agency will put in place to evaluate...