Are Aaron Judge and Juan Soto the best pair of teammates…ever? That certainly is possible, with some caveats: Let’s not include pre-integration teammates. I’ve learned many things over the years and one of them is that comparing pre-integration players to post-integration players is a waste of time - there are just too many variables. (Although … Continue reading Judge and Soto: Best Duo Ever?
After his first four seasons in MLB, Aaron Judge won a Rookie of the Year award, a Silver Slugger award, appeared in two All-Star games, and many fans (even non-Yankee fans) believe he has a 2017 MVP award that currently resides on the Altuve family mantel. He did that while playing 99.7% of his career … Continue reading Is Aaron Judge (gasp) Undervalued?
The Yanks are playing phenomenally and have been a heck of a lot of fun to watch as well – there’s absolutely zero reason not to be optimistic about the rest of 2024. That said, Joe Girardi talking about bunting and “contact” over the first few games, then Paul O’Neill citing every player’s batting average … Continue reading Great Start Yankees! But Let’s Dig Deeper…
We’re at that time of the calendar year in which we’re less than one month away from Opening Day and we can start having serious conversations about the Yankees’ 2023 roster and the expectations of individual players. The health of both DJ LeMahieu and Giancarlo Stanton is going to go a long way toward determining … Continue reading More Higgy, less Trevino (…?)
If, like me, your first thought was that can’t be true – as great as Judge was in ’22 and as important as he was to the Yankees' success this year there have to be five or ten seasons in which a player did even more to help his team to win than Judge did … Continue reading Is Judge ’22 the Most Valuable Player…Ever…?
Just a quick post today about some numbers I saw that weren’t too surprising to me, but the extent of some of the year-to-year changes raised my eyebrows a little bit. The Yankees are pulling the ball a lot more in 2022 than they did in 2021 and it’s working. Last season, the Yanks ranked … Continue reading Fun With Numbers, 2022 Yankees Style
Fun fact: In 2022, the Yankees have a better winning percentage in games that Joey Gallo played in than in games Aaron Judge has played in – actually, they have a better winning percentage in games Judge hasn’t played in than in ones he has. My point? The number of variables that determine whether a … Continue reading Judge, Ohtani, and MVP Criteria
“Out of Left Field” is an occasional post that covers matters that don’t require 1,200 words of analysis but still should be addressed, even if in a brief manner. So let’s get to it – in no particular order: Is 2022 IKF an improvement over 2021 Gleyber? Yankee fans don’t universally agree on just about … Continue reading Out of Left Field, July 14th Edition
I’m going to preface what I‘m about to write with this: I still think Joey Gallo is a good baseball player who’s going to provide plenty of value for his team in his career. You don’t go from being in the MVP discussion at age 25 (which Gallo certainly would have been if he didn’t … Continue reading If the Yankees want to move Gallo, now is the time
Last night’s game certainly had a wild (and appropriate for Yankees fans) ending, which was apropos given the way the first 3:39 of game time had gone. I can’t speak for all Yankees fans of course but I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who spent a good chunk of the night alternating between a … Continue reading What I Saw (and you may have missed)
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