October 27th, 2020: LeMahieu, Arm Angles, Undrafted Free Agents
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October, 23rd, 2020: Tanaka, Torres, Kim, Mailbag
Some news: I’ve decided to put together an Offseason Plan post. Here are my 20...
2020-10-23 13:09:17 +0000 UTC View PostOctober 20th, 2020: Arbitration Projections, 40-Man Roster, 2021 Draft, Bold Predictions
In a 60-game season with a 16-team postseason field ripe for weird and random stuff, the two No. 1 seeds will meet in the World Series. Go figure. First time that's happened since 2013. Lifelong Do...
2020-10-20 14:10:52 +0000 UTC View PostOctober 16th, 2020: Payroll, Ottavino, Qualifying Offers, Mailbag
Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman held their annual end-of-season press conferences earlier this week and, as usual, Cashman’s comments boiled down to “we’re going to evaluate our options.” Gar...
2020-10-16 14:40:05 +0000 UTC View PostOctober 13th, 2020: Offseason, Sanchez, Sawyer, Minors, Stanton
How terrible is this ALCS? I badly want both teams to lose. I've concluded the best outcome is the Astros beating the Rays, preferably in soul-crushing fashion, then the Astros losing the World Ser...
2020-10-13 04:03:59 +0000 UTC View PostThoughts following ALDS Game 5
A fitting end to one of the least enjoyable Yankees season of my lifetime (to be fair, a lot of the non-baseball stuff factors into that). The Yankees are going home early (again) because their clo...
2020-10-10 15:11:39 +0000 UTC View PostThoughts following ALDS Game 4
The Yankees live to play another day. They outlasted the Rays in Game 4 last night to force a winner-take-all Game 5 tonight. If you didn't watch, the game was definitely closer than the 5-1 final ...
2020-10-09 14:58:35 +0000 UTC View PostThoughts following ALDS Game 3
The 2020 Yankees really have perfected the art of responding to adversity in the least inspiring way possible. They followed all the pitching hullabaloo of Game 2 with a thud in Game 3, and now the...
2020-10-08 14:48:41 +0000 UTC View PostThoughts following ALDS Game 2
If there is anything we've learned about the 2020 Yankees 64 games into the season, it's that when they win, they look like they're never going to lose again, and when they lose, they look like the...
2020-10-07 13:20:56 +0000 UTC View PostThoughts following ALDS Game 1
Three games, three wins this postseason. Usually that means an ALDS sweep, or maybe a 2-0 ALDS lead after a Wild Card Game win, but this year it means a 1-0 ALDS lead after a Wild Card Series sweep...
2020-10-06 14:51:52 +0000 UTC View PostThoughts prior to ALDS Game 1
UPDATE: The Yankees have announced their ALDS roster. No. 1 has been updated below.
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The ALDS has finally arrived. It feels like the Yankees ousted Cleveland just ...
2020-10-05 14:30:18 +0000 UTC View PostOctober 3rd, 2020: ALDS Roster, Cessa, Frazier, Voit, Mailbag
The Wild Card Series is over and MLB has three spicy LDS matchups coming up: Yankees vs. Rays, Astros ...
2020-10-03 16:22:56 +0000 UTC View PostThoughts following Wild Card Series Game 2
Y'all enjoy that game last night? Nothing like a casual Wednesday night game that ends six hours after ...
2020-10-01 14:52:04 +0000 UTC View PostThoughts following Wild Card Series Game 1
Things went so well for the Yankees in Game 1 of the Wild Card Series last night that Josh Naylor went 4 for 4 with two doubles and a home run, and Cleveland still lost by nine. Gerrit Cole dominat...
2020-09-30 15:25:51 +0000 UTC View PostThoughts prior to Wild Card Series Game 1
UPDATE: Finally had a chance to add thoughts on the Wild Card Series roster. Item No. 1 below has been updated.
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The Yankees open the best-of-three Wild Card Serie...
2020-09-29 14:19:20 +0000 UTC View PostThoughts following the 2020 regular season
The 2020 regular season is over and it took all 60 games to determine the Yankees will go to Cleveland...
2020-09-28 15:36:12 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 25th, 2020: Wild Card Series, Cole & Higashioka, Judge, Awards, German, Mailbag
Big news on this week's R2C2 podcast: CC Sabathia admitted his feud with Jackie Bradley Jr. was made ...
2020-09-25 15:19:06 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 22nd, 2020: Happ, Homefield Advantage, Gardner, Hicks, Chapman, Dominguez
UPDATE: Made a bad copy and paste error that accidentally chopped out a chunk of today's post without realizing it before I published. My bad. It's fixed now.
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2020-09-22 13:25:47 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 18th, 2020: Postseason Schedule & Roster, Frazier, Mailbag
Two weeks from today the Yankees will either be picking up the pieces following an early postseason exit, or they'll be on their way to the Southern California bubble for the ALDS. The magic number...
2020-09-18 15:04:42 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 14th, 2020: Paxton, Roster Moves, Tauchman, Postseason, Chapman
Thanks to this weekend's sweep over the Orioles (and no thanks to the...
2020-09-14 22:13:02 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 10th, 2020: Garcia, Chapman, Frazier, Judge, Stanton, Mailbag
Tomorrow the Yankees will begin their most important series of the season and, as we all expected, it's against ... the Orioles? The Orioles. 2020 sucks, man. Anyway, here are Friday morning's thou...
2020-09-11 00:02:41 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 8th, 2020: Rock Bottom, Sanchez, Schmidt, Voit
With 14 losses in their last 19 games, the Yankees are in the middle of their worst 19-game stretch since a 5-14 span in June 2017. Their lead over the Orioles for the No. 8 seed is down to 1.5 gam...
2020-09-08 14:08:50 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 4th, 2020: Shakeup, Rays, Urshela, Andujar, Catchers, What We've Missed, Mailbag
Know what's weird? The regular season ends in three weeks and two days. It feels like it just started! Because it did just start, obviously. The Yankees have played 36 games and they only have 24 m...
2020-09-04 14:46:36 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 1st, 2020: Cole, Garcia, Florial, Waiver Candidates, Yajure, Avilan
Am I the only one who found the Yankees losing on a walk-off home run in Yankee Stadium so absurd that I couldn't even be mad about it? Only in 2020. 2020-09-01 16:48:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Thoughts following the 2020 trade deadline
With all due respect to Addison Russ, the trade deadline came and went Monday without the Yankees making a notable add...
2020-08-31 23:42:18 +0000 UTC View PostAugust 27th, 2020: Judge, Offense, Trade Deadline, Happ, Brantly, Garcia, Mailbag
How's everyone doing? I hope you're all well. The Yankees are mired in a 13.5-game losing streak but I dunno, feels kinda insignificant right now. Since they have yet another off-day today, here ar...
2020-08-27 23:34:31 +0000 UTC View PostAugust 25th, 2020: New Schedule, Paxton, Tauchman, Russ
Couple stray trade rumors have appeared within the last 24 hours. 2020-08-25 14:21:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Thoughts after the Yankees lose James Paxton and Gleyber Torres to injuries
The Yankees are not playing this weekend because the Mets are dealing with two positive COVID-19 cases, yet the team still managed to make news. Yesterday the Yankees announced three players will b...
2020-08-22 14:57:10 +0000 UTC View PostAugust 21st, 2020: Rays, Britton, Torres, Paxton, Subway Series, Voit, LeMahieu, Mercer, Mailbag
The trade deadline is 10 days away and it is extremely weird there have been no rumors at all. I don't just mean the Yankees either. It's quiet with all 30 teams. 2020-08-21 13:44:45 +0000 UTC View Post
August 18th, 2020: Judge, LeMahieu, Paxton, Trade Targets, Alternate Site
Ten wins in 10 games at Yankee Stadium this year -- that ties 1951 and 1987 for the longest unbeaten streak at Yankee Stadium to begin a season in franchise history -- and 10 straight wins (and 15 ...
2020-08-18 14:31:34 +0000 UTC View Post