January 29th, 2021: Tanaka, O’Day, Roster Check-in, Six-Man Rotation, Mailbag
Spring Training is a little more than two weeks away and players are already filing into Tampa. Erik...
2021-01-29 13:54:05 +0000 UTC View Post
RAB Thoughts posts
January 26th, 2021: Ottavino, Minor League Signings, Hall of Fame
Only two weeks and six days until pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training, people. Keep your fingers crossed and hope the pandemic cooperates. 2021-01-26 13:56:47 +0000 UTC View Post
January 22nd, 2021: Blue Jays, Kluber, Moore, Prospects, Mailbag
Seven years ago today the Masahiro Tanaka race came to an end and he agreed to join the Yankees. That was a happy day. It was a long pursuit -- it wasn’t clear he would even be posted earlier tha...
2021-01-22 14:53:29 +0000 UTC View PostJanuary 19th, 2021: Musgrove, Castillo, Tanaka, Gardner, Kluber, Arbitration Signings, Payroll, Ottavino
Pitchers and catchers are due to report to Tampa for Spring Training four weeks from yesterday. We’re inside a month, people. Hopefully the pandemic cooperates and MLB and the MLBPA put their dif...
2021-01-19 14:49:59 +0000 UTC View PostThoughts after the Yankees sign DJ LeMahieu and Corey Kluber
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2021-01-16 15:23:13 +0000 UTC View PostJanuary 15th, 2021: LeMahieu, Arbitration, International Free Agency, Hendriks, Kluber, Mailbag
David Laurila has a great interview with certified pitching nerd Clarke Schmidt. Among other thing...
2021-01-15 14:59:32 +0000 UTC View PostJanuary 12th, 2021: LeMahieu, Chacin, Lyons, Cole, Prospects
Quick reminder: Friday is the open of the international signing period and also the deadline for teams an...
2021-01-12 14:43:32 +0000 UTC View PostJanuary 8th, 2021: Lindor, Allen, Felix, Bell, Minor Leagues, Mailbag
The Yankees are scheduled to play their first Grapefruit League game in seven weeks and one day. That’s good news, right? I have my fingers crossed hoping Spring Training and the regular season w...
2021-01-08 14:42:12 +0000 UTC View PostJanuary 5th, 2021: Hot Stove, 2016 Trade Deadline, Hughes
Two important dates are coming up. Well, one date with two events, really. Next Friday is the start o...
2021-01-05 13:50:22 +0000 UTC View PostJanuary 1st, 2021: New Year’s Resolutions, Tanaka, Medina, Mailbag
Welcome to 2021. New year, new beginnings, still the same old Yankees. They’ll get around to make some moves this offseason eventually. Here is today’s mailbag heavy post (you folks are always ...
2021-01-01 14:35:03 +0000 UTC View PostDecember 29th, 2020: Hot Stove Action, Roster Check-In, Torres, Sanchez
Welcome to the final RAB Patreon post of 2020. It was a pretty crummy year from top to bottom, but I sincerely thank you all for sticking it out with me, and I hope I was able to provide a little e...
2020-12-29 15:14:31 +0000 UTC View PostDecember 22nd, 2020: LeMahieu, Gardner, Castillo, A's, Expansion
Quick reminder: Barring breaking news, there will not be a post this Friday because of the whole Christmas thing. I hope you all are having a good holiday season. 2020 was a pretty crappy year for ...
2020-12-22 13:46:40 +0000 UTC View PostDecember 18th, 2020: Stanek, Bowman, Velazquez, Warren, Miller, Winter Ball, MLB-MLBPA, Mailbag
Fun story I read this week: David Schoenfield looked at the bigg...
2020-12-18 14:30:34 +0000 UTC View PostDecember 15th, 2020: Torres, LeMahieu, Cortes, Bullpen Targets
Quick note: I’m planning to skip next Friday’s regularly scheduled post. Sorry for the short-ish notice, but Christmas snuck up on me. I will happily cover any breaking news, otherwise I’m go...
2020-12-15 14:32:47 +0000 UTC View PostDecember 11th, 2020: Schwarber, Bell, Taillon, Rule 5 Draft, Reds, Gardner, Mailbag
The Yankees have made two major trades on Dec. 11th. On this date in 1959, the Yankees acquired Roger Maris (still the American League’s single-season home run king) from the Athletics for a pack...
2020-12-11 14:08:20 +0000 UTC View PostDecember 8th, 2020: Urshela, Hot Stove, Odorizzi, Catchers, Rule 5 Draft, Sanchez, Sugano
On this date in 2009, the Yankees acquired Curtis Granderson in a three-team trade with the Tigers and Diamondbacks. The Yankees got Granderson, the Tigers got Max Scherzer, and the D-Backs got Ian...
2020-12-08 14:42:00 +0000 UTC View PostDecember 4th, 2020: Non-Tenders, Schwarber, McCann, Brantley, Garcia, Mailbag
The Winter Meetings are next week. Did you know that? Really snuck up on me. The Winter Meetings will be held virtually this year, so I’m a bit worried it’ll feel like every other week of the o...
2020-12-04 14:52:56 +0000 UTC View PostDecember 1st, 2020: Non-Tender Deadline, Scherzer, Pitching Market, Winter Ball
Did y’all have a good Thanksgiving? Hope so. I’m out of leftovers already but I did put up my Christmas tree this weekend, which is definitely a record. I've never had it up this early. I had n...
2020-12-01 14:38:15 +0000 UTC View PostMailbag: Judge, Pitching, Offseason Plan, Non-Tenders, Urshela, Murphy, Hicks, Alternate Site, DH
Happy Thanksgiving Eve, everyone. I have an inbox full of mailbag questions gnawing away at me, so I figured I’d throw them all together in an old school RAB-style mailbag post for today. These a...
2020-11-25 14:52:50 +0000 UTC View PostNovember 24th, 2020: Rule 5 Draft, Cubs, Chapman
Reminder: I am skipping this Friday’s post for Thanksgiving. If there’s breaking news, I will happily cover it, otherwise I’m going to lay low around turkey day. I hope you all have a Hap...
2020-11-24 14:47:11 +0000 UTC View PostNovember 20th, 2020: Cano, Pitching, Lynn, Hall of Fame, Mailbag
The 2020 Yankees Sporcle quiz is out. They sure did use a lot of random players in a 60-game season, huh...
2020-11-20 14:12:54 +0000 UTC View PostNovember 17th, 2020: ZiPS, Rule 5 Draft, Lindor, Hill
The Dominican Winter League season began Sunday and Domingo German struck out seven in the first four innings of a combined no-hitter in his first game action in over a year last night (Sunday’s ...
2020-11-17 15:13:13 +0000 UTC View PostNovember 13th, 2020: Simmons, Molina, NPB Players, Winter Ball, Mailbag
Awards season is over and now we enter what is traditionally the busiest few weeks of the offseason. Teams like to get their major business handled before the holidays (and free agents like to sign...
2020-11-13 13:35:20 +0000 UTC View PostNovember 10th, 2020: Minor League Restructuring, Top 10 Prospects, Garcia, LeMahieu
The Dodgers won the World Series two weeks ago and the dominant MLB headlines at the moment are an 2020-11-10 14:56:20 +0000 UTC View Post
November 6th, 2020: Player Evaluations, 90/90 Club, Minors, Mailbag
Just a heads up: I am planning to skip the regularly scheduled post on Friday, Nov. 27th. That’s three weeks from today. It's the day after Thanksgiving. If there’s breaking news, I will happil...
2020-11-06 15:11:22 +0000 UTC View PostNovember 3rd, 2020: Britton, LeMahieu, Kahnle, Kluber, Minor League Free Agents, Awards, Stanton
In case you missed it, my 2020-21 Offseason Plan went live yesterday. Hope you enjoyed it, or at leas...
2020-11-03 15:24:33 +0000 UTC View PostOctober 29th, 2020: Options, World Series, Rule Changes, Mailbag
Offseason Plan update: It will be published Monday. I want to see the options decisions around the league (2020-10-29 22:50:28 +0000 UTC View Post
The Yankees and the 2020-21 Offseason Calendar
The Dodgers are the 2020 World Series champions and the 2020-21 offseason begins today. Gotta say, after the shutdown this summer, I’m not looking forward to another long stretch without baseball...
2020-10-28 15:16:26 +0000 UTC View Post