In a surprise to absolutely no one, Derek Jeter was elected to the Hall of Fame on Tuesday, garnering 99.7% of the vote. Though he’s embarked on a second career in the Marlins’ front office, his election inches the door closer to shut on his playing...
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... tstop job in 1996. Jeter didn’t quite; the Yankees didn’t trade for another shortstop–well, not until February, 2004. But even ...
Embed from Getty Images Today’s announcement comes as no surprise. The Baseball Writers’ Association of America voted Derek Jeter into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown with 99.7 percent of the vote. Jeter’s not the only new entrant...
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... l join Jeter. Jeter’s election makes it the second straight year a prominent Yankee receives a plaque. Last year, the Captain’s longtime teammate and co-member ...
Official announcement of Derek Jeter’s induction to the Hall of Fame will occur later today. It’ll be the second straight year featuring a Yankee, with Mariano Rivera entering Cooperstown last summer. But after these two prominent Yankees, who’s next?
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... votes last year; we’ll see how that shifts this season. Pettitte was a great Yankee, but falls short of Hall-worthiness statistically speaking. His link to PEDs ...
It’s been quite a week, hasn’t it? The last time I wrote here, the Astros, Red Sox, and Mets all still had managers and we hadn’t spent a chunk of an afternoon analyzing what was on Josh Reddick’s chest or under Jose Altuve’s jersey. Despite all...
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... bout their projections here and Derek did, too. The key to the Yankees being this good as that, simply, they have a lot of good players at a lot of ...
Happy Friday, everyone. Yesterday sure was a day for Major League Baseball, huh? I’m not sure what really to believe — it will take a lot more than random Twitter accounts posting wrinkles in players’ jerseys for me to be convinced about buzzers —...
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... and how must be helping the Yankees in that regard. He even used the word “devices.” Check it out: Here’s video ...
A sneak peek at the Yankees ZiPS that will go live tomorrow. To get the full lines and breakdowns, you’ll have to check #FanGraphs in the morning! pic.twitter.com/beXpZafRAg — Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) January 15, 2020 After examining Steamer’s...
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... urprises Hitter: ZiPS has Mike Tauchman at 2.5 WAR, or sixth-best out of the Yankees’ position players. It loves his defense and thinks he’ll hit aplenty (.263/. ...
The New York Yankees announced today that they have acquired minor league 3B James Nelson and cash considerations from the Miami Marlins in exchange for LHP Stephen Tarpley. — New York Yankees (@Yankees) January 15, 2020 It didn’t take long for the...
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... Pirates in the Iván Nova back in 2016. He made his big league debut for the Yankees in 2018 and was pretty effective: in 9 innings, he struck out 13 and allowed ...
Rob Manfred missed the mark. The punishment levied against the Houston Astros management is both historic and significant. It is a sentence that many believe is deserving and will serve as a deterrent for future behavior. Except it very well may not...
As spring training nears, projection season is upon us. Today, we start a series examining the various projection systems’ outlooks for the Yankees in 2020. Today, we cover Steamer, currently available on Fangraphs. We’ll get to others like PECOTA...
Embed from Getty Images Spring Training is roughly a month away, and though the offseason isn’t technically over, it feels like the Yankees are just about done. Trading JA Happ seems like the final step this winter, if it even occurs at all. As a...
When the Yankees decided to bring back JA Happ about a year ago, the move made sense. He’d just pitched well for them in a half season after a trade (disaster against the Red Sox in the ALDS notwithstanding) and was lined up to be a back end guy...
The Yankees made it official: Brett Gardner is back, four weeks after the two parties came to their initial agreement. They were not, as it happens, waiting for a J.A. Happ trade. (Or, if they were waiting, they decided not to wait any longer. Who...
