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December 12th, 2023: Ohtani, González, Vivas, Yamamoto, Hot Stove Rumors, Minor League Deals, Roster Check-In

Do you know what happened 10 years ago today? 10 years ago today Robinson Canó officially signed with the Mariners (the agreement was reported a few days earlier). Usually when I share these “th...

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December 8th, 2023: Rule 5 Draft, Mailbag

It has been two days and Juan Soto is still hitless as a Yankee. They gave up Mike King for this guy? Cashman failed. Anyway, during his conference call Thursday, Brian Cashman confirmed the Padres...

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Thoughts after the Yankees trade for Juan freaking Soto (and Trent Grisham)

2023-12-07 05:11:07 +0000 UTC View Post

December 6th, 2023: Soto, Kiner-Falefa, Yamamoto, 2024 Draft

UPDATE (10:07am ET): Jack 2023-12-06 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Quick thoughts after the Yankees trade for Alex Verdugo

There's a new No. 99 in the Bronx (I kid, I kid)

The Yankees have a new left-handed hitting ou...

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December 5th, 2023: Soto, Yamamoto, Lee, Kelenic, Peralta

The 2023 Winter Meetings are underway in Nashville and, one day in, it’s been pretty quiet. I had some free time Monday and figured I should cobble together the latest Yankees-related and Yankees...

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December 4th, 2023: Soto, Grisham, Gonzalez, Polanco, Rule 5 Draft

The 2023 Winter Meetings are underway in Nashville and it felt wrong to wait until Tuesday to run this post, so let’s get it out there bright and early Monday morning, before things start happeni...

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Quick thoughts on the latest Juan Soto rumors

Hark, rumors.

The rumblings about a potential Juan Soto trade are growing louder. 2023-12-02 01:06:48 +0000 UTC View Post

November 30th, 2023: White Sox, Soto, Yamamoto, Mailbag

UPDATE: I accidentally hit publish early. This is the completed version of the post.

Earlier this week Yoshinobu Yamamoto won his third straight Pacific Lea...

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November 27th, 2023: Yamamoto, Montgomery, Imanaga, Lee, Ausmus, Bellinger

The Thanksgiving weekend is over and MLB’s Winter Meetings are a week away. It’s time to get back to business. The hot stove is beginning to heat up and I hope the Yankees do something soon, mo...

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November 21st, 2023: Bauers, Non-Tenders, De Los Santos, Yamamoto, Margot, Bummer, Anderson, Britton, Higashioka, Mailbag

Reminder: I am skipping this Friday’s regularly scheduled post. I’ll cover any significant breaking news, otherwise I’m going to take it easy during the long Thanksgiving weekend. I hope you ...

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November 17th, 2023: Cashman, Stanton, Volpe, Cole, Beeter, Ramirez, Minor League Free Agents, Mailbag

Things are really quiet this offseason, no? Not just with the Yankees. I mean every team. By this time last offseason Teoscar Hernández had been traded and Anthony Rizzo had re-signed with the Yan...

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November 14th, 2023: Rowson, Torres, Donovan, Burleson, Peralta

In case you missed it, here is my 2023-24 Offseason Plan. Make sure you bookmark it for future mockin...

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The Official 2023-24 RAB Offseason Plan

I started these Offseason Plans in 2016 and I u

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November 10th, 2023: Yamamoto, Mailbag

Brian Cashman and Hal Steinbrenner held press conferences earlier this week and yeesh, the less said about them, the better. There was one small yet important piece of news though: Cashman confirme...

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November 7th, 2023: Mendoza, Volpe, Narvaez, Lee, Montas

Site note: I’m planning to skip the regularly scheduled post on Friday, Nov. 24th. That is two weeks from this Friday and it is the day after Thanksgiving. If there is breaking news, I will happi...

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November 3rd, 2023: Germán, World Series, Soto, Mailbag

The 2023 MLB season is over and the 2023-24 offseason has arrived. Here’s the offseason calendar and wh...

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The Yankees and the 2023-24 Offseason Calendar

The Rangers are the 2023 World Series champions and the offseason is here. The Yankees have been in offseason mode for over a month now and they should – should – be active this winter...

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Poll: Five hypothetical Juan Soto trade packages

Hal: “What more do you want? He’s already wearing pinstripes!”

By almost any measure, th...

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October 27th, 2023: Casey, World Series, Mailbag

I know I recently said I would have Jung-Hoo Lee and Yoshinobu Yamamoto breakdowns before the end of Octo...

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October 24th, 2023: Rodón, Gil, Gómez, Peraza, Rortvedt

Remember the external front office audit? It hasn’t started yet. 2023-10-24 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

October 20th, 2023: Rotation Depth, Marlins, Mailbag

It has been nearly three weeks since the Yankees last played a game and we’re still waiting on someone from the organization to say something. Season’s over dudes. Maybe say something about it?...

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October 17th, 2023: Judge, Rizzo, Cortes, Trevino, Hot Stove Rumors, Bold Predictions

I think the Patreon formatting issues are a web Gmail issue. Everything looks like it should on the Patreon site and on the Gmail app, but not when I open the post email on my computer. An...

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October 13th, 2023: Stanton, Florial, Front Office, Mailbag

Thank you for hanging in there while I get my bearings following this annoying Patreon update. I’m going to use today’s intro to conduct a brief experiment:

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October 10th, 2023: Volpe, Arbitration Projections, Qualifying Offer

Site note: Patreon rolled out a massive update last week and reader, I hate it. The backend is clunky and needlessly complicated – why are the post editor and schedule/publish settings on differe...

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October 6th, 2023: Draft Lottery, Soto, Mailbag

Heck of a Wild Card Series for former Yankees pitchers: 24.1 IP, 19 H, 3 R, 4 BB, 25 K, 1 HR between Miguel Castro, Aroldis Chapman, Nathan Eovaldi, Sonny Gray, Chad Green, Jordan Montgomery, David...

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October 2nd, 2023: Season Wrap-Up, Rodón, Montas, Awards

Sad news: Tim Wakefield passed away ...

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September 29th, 2023: Cole, Judge, King, Mailbag

The final series of 2023 is upon us. This feels like the final series of 2013, when the 85-win Yankees closed out their season against the hard-tanking Astros in Houston. We all remember that serie...

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September 26th, 2023: Judge, Gómez, Montas, Peralta, Minor League Awards, Arizona Fall League

UPDATE: The Yankees made a late addition to their Arizona Fall League contingent Monday. It's been added to the AzFL section at the end of the post.

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Six games rem...

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September 22nd, 2023: King, Cole, Kiner-Falefa, Mailbag

The tragic number is down to three. Any combination of Yankees losses and wins by the third Wild Card team du jour totaling three will eliminate the Yankees from the Wild Card race. They’ve been ...

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