Not for nothing, but given what I’ve seen out there on them internet streets, the reaction to Trent Grisham taking the qualifying offer is absurdly over the top. It’s hysterical, and not in a haha that's hysterical way. (The reaction everywhere else, I mean. Not from you folks. You’re all smart ...
2025-11-21 11:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The Yankees have their 2026 center fielder and, presumably, their leadoff hitter (to begin the season, at least). Trent Grisham is one of a record...
2025-11-18 22:36:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Congrats to Tyler Wade for getting the Aaron Judge MVP party invite.The 2025-26 Offseason Plan went live last Friday, in case you missed it. It’s a labor of love but I’m glad to have it off my plate...
2025-11-18 11:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThree reminders. One, the Offseason Plan is coming tomorrow. Two, the MVPs will be announced tonight. Aaron Judge will either win his third or be the runner-up for a second time. And three, I’m planning to skip the regularly scheduled post on Friday, Nov. 28th. That’s the Friday after Thanksgivin...
2025-11-13 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostOn this date 19 years ago, the Yankees traded Gary Sheffield to the Tigers for three pitching prospects who combined to give up 12 runs 5.2 innings with the Yankees. Picking up Bobby Abreu at the deadline that summer led to the Sheffield trade. It was a perfectly...
2025-11-10 11:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostOffseason Plan update: I think we’re good to go for next Friday, Nov. 14th. I can’t 100% commit to that just yet because there’s a chance real life gets in the way (including the Yankees doing something that requires immediate attention), but we’re on track for next week. I’d say it’s 75% done? The last big thing I’m waiting on is the list of minor league free agents, which I hope...
2025-11-07 11:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostShoutout to my brother for reminding me Hal Steinbrenner said “we’ll see if it pays off” when asked about the Dodgers and their spending back in January. Perhaps it’s best Hal only does interviews with YES these days. The Dodgers won the Wo...
2025-11-03 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dodgers are World Series champions and the 1998-2000 Yankees are no longer the last team to repeat as baseball's title winners. It was a good run. The World Series is over and the offseason has already begun, and several important dates are on the horizon. Here is the 2025-26 MLB offseason calendar and what each date means for the Yankees.
There are changes coming to the YES booth in 2026. Andrew Marchand (subs. req’d) says John Flaherty and Jeff Nelson are out with David Cone, Joe Girardi, and Paul O’Neill set to work more often. YES will cut back on the rotating analyst thing and have a more cons...
2025-10-31 10:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe World Series is tied 1-1 and each team has won the exact type of game they have to win. The Blue Jays wore down Blake Snell in Game 1 and battered the bullpen. Yoshinobu Yamamoto was magnificent in Game 2 and the Dodgers mustered enough offense. On paper, the Dodgers have significant starting pitching advantages in Games 3 and 4, though I feel like the Blue Jays have been on the wrong end o...
2025-10-27 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe World Series begins tonight and either the Blue Jays will win their first championship since their back-to-back titles in 1992 and 1993, or the Dodgers will become the first repeat champions since the 1998-2000 Yankees. A real no-win situation for Yankees fans, eh? Too bad the Blue Jays and Dodgers can’t both lose. Anyway, I’m going with mailbag questions today. I logged some good Offse...
2025-10-24 10:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostTerrible news: Jesus Montero died this past weekend. He was only 35. Reports out of Venezuela say he was hit by a drunk driver while riding his motorcycle. Just awful. If you’re reading this, you know Montero was a very big deal back in the day. I remember think...
2025-10-21 10:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostNow that it has been over a week since the ALDS ended and we've had time to decompress, I'm not sure there's anything to take away from the series other than the Yankees got beat. Their two best starters gave up 13 runs in 5.1 innings and Aaron Judge's supporting cast did a bunch of nothing after being so good for 162 games. In the past, the Yankees have lost postseason series where their weakn...
2025-10-17 10:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostIt has been five days since the Yankees lost the ALDS and they haven’t signed Kyle Tucker or traded for Tarik Skubal yet. Are they even trying? Here's an update on the usual offseason projects:
Offseason Calendar (last year’s): Hon...
2025-10-13 10:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe first post of the offseason is always a weird one. I have a list of things I want to write about, but also the season just ended, and I’m not ready to get into all that just yet. Given the quick turnaround from the Game 4 post to today’s post, I’m just gonna catch up on the mailbag today. ...
2025-10-10 10:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Five innings. The Yankees held a lead for five innings in the four-game ALDS. They were outscored 38-19 and outhomered 9-4, and there just weren’t many moments during their 17 head-to-head games this year that the Yankees looked like they were on the same level as the Blue Jays. They finished wit...
2025-10-09 15:43:34 +0000 UTC View Post
There will be no Game 5 of the ALDS. The Yankees were unable to follow Tuesday’s spirited comeback with a Game 4 win Wednesday, going out mostly with a whimper against Toronto’s bullpen game. Cam Schlittler pitched well, but two runs ain’t gonna cut it, offensively. Jazz Chisholm Jr. also chi...
2025-10-09 02:32:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Confession: I wrote a “Yankees lose” version of last night’s very quick post around the third inning. Not so much because I was dooming, but because the game looked headed in that direction, and I...
2025-10-08 15:03:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron Judge has his postseason moment and the Yankees have a pulse. Once down 6-1 in Game 3, the Yankees scored eight answered runs the rest of the way, none bigger than the three on Judge’s towering game-tying home run off the foul pole. 2025-10-08 03:39:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Since Wild Cards became a thing in 1995, seven teams have erased a 2-0 deficit in the Division Series, including the Yankees twice. They did it against the Athletics in 2001 (the Derek Jeter Flip Play series) and also against Cleveland in 2017. Those 2017 Yankees are the last team to make a 2-0 com...
2025-10-06 18:49:13 +0000 UTC View Post
As I write this, George Springer hit a home run to give the Blue Jays a 12-0 lead as the Yankees continue to get humiliated in October/Toronto. Perhaps getting pushed to the limit in the Wild Card Series by a Red Sox team that gave away its best hitter and gave at-bats to Nate Eaton and Nick Sogard...
2025-10-05 22:02:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The Blue Jays have their first postseason win since 2016 and the Yankees are down 1-0 in the ALDS. Since Wild Cards became a thing in 1995, the team that wins Game 1 is 88-32 in best-of-five series. We know a 1-0 series deficit isn’t insurmountable, but beating Toronto three times in the next fou...
2025-10-05 00:21:51 +0000 UTC View Post
The first ever Yankees vs. Blue Jays postseason series will begin in a few hours. Doesn’t the postseason feel so long when you’re in the Wild Card Series? This is just the ALDS! The Yankees would still have to get through the ALCS and World Series after this. They’re gonna have to shorten the...
2025-10-04 15:19:40 +0000 UTC View Post
The AL East will be settled properly. It’ll be Yankees vs. Blue Jays in the ALDS after Thursday’s win over the Red Sox in Game 3 of the Wild Card Series. The Yankees are the first team since the Wild Card Series became permanent in 2022 to win the series after losing Game 1. Also, the home team...
2025-10-03 16:25:20 +0000 UTC View Post
A star was born on a Thursday night in the Bronx. Cam Schlittler, who started this season in Double-A, pitched the Yankees to the ALDS with a masterpiece against the Red Sox in Game 3 of the Wild Card Series. Eight shutout innings and 12 strikeouts, a franchise record for a rookie in the postseason...
2025-10-03 02:46:22 +0000 UTC View Post
One way or the other, something that hasn’t happened in a long time will happen tonight. Either the Yankees will beat a non-AL Central team in a postseason series* for the first time since beating the Orioles in the 2012 ALDS, or they’ll lose a postseason series* while having home field advanta...
2025-10-02 15:26:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The Yankees aren’t done yet. Wednesday night the Yankees forced a Game 3 against the Red Sox with a Game 2 win, and they did it thanks to two players who were not in the lineup in Game 1. Ben Rice struck early, Jazz Chisholm Jr. made an impact on both sides of the ball late, and now the Yankees w...
2025-10-02 04:21:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe season is on the line tonight at Yankee Stadium (6pm ET on ESPN). Either the Yankees win and force a Game 3 tomorrow, or the season ends way too quickly and we’re asking the same “why can’t the Yankees beat non-AL Central teams in October? “ question. Here are the ...
2025-10-01 17:36:31 +0000 UTC View Post
And just like that, the Yankees are on the brink of elimination. The offense didn’t do much against Garrett Crochet and Aroldis Chapman in Game 1 Tuesday, the bullpen blew a lead (surprise!), and now the Yankees have to win two straight games against a team they have beaten once in their last 10 ...
2025-10-01 03:58:08 +0000 UTC View Post