Say goodbye to the 2012 baseball season. The Giants completed their sweep of the Tigers last night, and brought the 2012 Commissioner’s trophy to San Francisco. Congratulations to them, but now it’s time to start analyzing the 2012 season in full. We plan to look at the players on the 2012 roster, what we’re left [...]
What a crazy playoffs. It started with some awful calls, then each of the Division Series going to 5 games, then a sweep of the Yankees, a 7 game NLCS that included a huge comeback from the Giants. Tonight, the red hot Giants try there to sweep Detroit and take home a championship. Jackson CF [...]
Ask anyone who the best Yankee is and the answer will always be the same: Robinson Cano. Ask anyone who the second best Yankee is, however, and things get murkier. Some will say Derek Jeter. Others will say CC Sabathia. Few would say Nick Swisher, few except Fangraphs, that is. Your number two Yankee in [...]
One of the names being bandied about as a trade candidate this offseason is Curtis Granderson. It stands to reason. He was so useless down the stretch and in the playoffs that he wound up being benched during the ALCS. He only has one year left before hitting free agency, and with the new CBA [...]
Obviously posting has been pretty light here over the past couple of days, but as I’m sure you’re all aware, there’s a tropical storm headed for the Northeast, and all of our editors are located from the Mid-Atlantic up through New England. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’ve spent most of the past couple of days prepping to ride out the worst case scenario, and still have plenty of work to do before things get bad late tomorrow night. Posting should get back to normal whenever the power is back up and things are reasonably cleaned up down here. The most important thing, obviously, is staying safe, and I hope all of our friends/readers in the New York area in particular are doing just that. If you can, be sure to evacuate if you’re in a low lying area, and make sure you’ve got plenty of batteries/water/other necessities to get you through any outages.
Ichiro Suzuki‘s arrival in pinstripes always seemed surreal, even as the playoffs came and went (too soon). Perhaps it was his performance that lent to the lasting feeling of disbelief. While it was easy to assume that leaving Safeco Field and the more-than-feeble Seattle offense for the greener pastures of Yankee Stadium and the more [...]
(The following is being syndicated from An A-Blog for A-Rod) Yesterday The other day I made a comment on our daily TYA email chain that it seemed like most of the blogopshere was caught in a no man’s land when it came to Yankee coverage now that the season was over. The combination of such [...]
The Yankees got their first taste of life without Mariano Rivera this year, after the greatest closer of all time tore his ACL in Kansas City in early May. That was supposed to be something they didn’t have to repeat in 2013, but yesterday we learned that Rivera is having “second thoughts” about a return to the mound, even going so far as to share those thoughts with Brian Cashman. Having Mo call it quits would definitely be an emotional and psychological gut-shot for Yankee fans, but would would it mean for the team’s bullpen? Maybe not as much as you’d think.
Now, to be clear, the Yankees are obviously better with Rivera than without him, and the difference between Mo and the guy who would take his roster spot is enormous. The Yankees should absolutely hope that Rivera returns for at least one more season, I’m just saying that it wouldn’t be a catastrophe for the unit as a whole if they don’t have Rivera anchoring them next season.
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