If we go by contract estimates from the smart people at FanGraphs, the total contract value for Juan Soto should exceed the total contract value of… Alex Bregman, Max Fried, Jack Flaherty, Anthony Santander, and Christian Walker combined. This begs some questions. Short term, All-Stars at first and third base, a better than average corner … Continue reading Would You Rather Juan Soto, or…?
A matter that’s been flying under the radar in the Yankees offseason is the need for a first baseman. The team has positional flexibility at second base, third base, and the outfield positions – the Yankees flat out do not have a viable option to pencil in at first base if the season started tomorrow, … Continue reading The Yankees New 1B is…(two choices)
Full disclosure: I’m not into the hot stove season as much as most fans. Most of it is folks talking just for the sake of talking and almost all of it is nonsense. Specifically with the Yankees, primarily due to the fact we all need to consider Hal Steinbrenner’s trust fund when building a theoretical … Continue reading Sleeping on Jack…
There is no such thing as “new school versus old school” debates in baseball. Discussions masquerading as such today are only different because we have more information available to us, we can quantify that information, and we all have access to it (and can bloviate about it to the world.) How that information is deployed … Continue reading New School, Old School, LOL…There’s No Such Thing
We fans have a tendency to over-analyze and breakdown every bit of minutia over a game or five to find the singular reason or two our team lost – more often than not we do this to justify what we want to believe, while ignoring other relevant factors. To wit; I’ve borrowed this in one … Continue reading Andrew Friedman is Why the Dodgers are Better Than the Yankees
(3.5 minute read time.) Let’s start from the beginning: The 2024 MLB season for the New York Yankees and New York Yankees fans was a great season. Back in March, Baseball America, MLB.com, The Ringer, and ESPN all had the Yankees finishing somewhere between 4th and 6th in the American League. (Spoiler alert: The Yanks … Continue reading 2024 Yankees: Your New Opinion
Is Giancarlo Stanton the best postseason hitter in Yankees history? It depends. If you count pre-integration statistics (the older I get, the less credence I give to pre-integration statistics when compared to numbers accrued in a fully integrated league, but if you still do…) then Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig are in the discussion. In … Continue reading Is Stanton the Best Postseason Yankee Ever?
On this date, in Yankees history... As I’m writing this, we have about 60 hours before Gerrit Cole takes the mound in the city of angels, looking to jumpstart the Yankees to their first World Series title in 15 years. To help kill some time, let’s look at two memorable Yankees happenstances that occurred on … Continue reading An Iconic HR, and a Drunken Manager
I’m assuming you’ve been watching, so we don’t need to belabor the obvious: Juan Soto, remarkably, has produced far more than the Yankees could have hoped for, and those hopes were very, very high. And Giancarlo Stanton…well, let’s just say I remember all of you who couldn’t wait for the Yankees to rid themselves of … Continue reading Good News (If You Trust Process)
Some final thoughts on the 2024 regular season and the upcoming postseason: Going by record, strength of schedule, and run differential, the Yankees were clearly the best team in the American League in 2024. The good news? They’re better right now than they were at any point this season. For a good chunk of the … Continue reading Let’s Look Back and Forward:
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