According to the depth chart on Yankees.com, the outfield is Nick Swisher in left, Melky Cabrera in center and Nick Swisher in right. Hmm. I’m not sure if that’s possible.
Ok, so realistically, it would be Cabrera in left, Brett Gardner in center and Swisher in right, if the Yankees didn’t make any moves.
One problem. The Yankees have mentioned two of those players in possible trades this offseason (excluding maybe Gardner). There is a chance that you will see none of those three in the out... Read Full Story
Our own Lenny Neslin just wrote a letter to Yankees GM Brian Cashman. This is my response to that letter.
Lenny’s words are in bold face, mine are in regular type.
When you watched Joba pitch from your beautiful box behind home plate, did you notice how Chamberlain through 92 MPH as a starter and hit 98 MPH as a reliever? It takes Chamberlain’s arm a few appearances to get his arm strength back. So, he definitely can’t always go from starting to the bullpen
Well, yes, he can go back ... Read Full Story
Via Peter Gammons:
The Yankees are planning to go to spring training with Phil Hughes and Joba Chamberlain being programmed to start. “They can always go from starting to the bullpen, but it’s tough going the other way,” says Yankees general manager Brian Cashman.
Cashman feels David Robertson and Damaso Marte can pitch the seventh and eighth innings in front of Mariano Rivera, but a Yankees run at John Lackey, Ben Sheets or another starter hasn’t been ruled out.... Read Full Story
It seems that if the Yankees are going to add to their rotation this winter the guy they would want in pinstripes the most is Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay, but they won’t be alone in their pursuit. According to multiple sources, both the Red Sox and the Angels are going to make strong attempts at acquiring the righty.
According to the LA Times, the Angels were very close to getting Halladay this past July, but their reluctance to include shortstop Erick Aybar in the deal ultimately killed... Read Full Story
According to Ben Badler of Baseball America, the Yankees have signed Eladio Moronta, a 20-year-old outfielder, turning 21 in December, from the Dominican Republic.
The deal was reportedly worth $570,000, much less than he was rumored to get over a year ago when the baseball world thought he was 17. It turned out that he was lying and Major League Baseball suspended him for a year. The suspension was lifted late this past September.
I don’t know much about Moronta other than the fact tha... Read Full Story
Andy Pettitte has the most wins of any active pitcher since 1995, and is second in starts and innings pitched, trailing only Greg Maddux.
I read that fact in Tom Verducci’s Sports Illustrated article earlier this month, titled “World Domination.” The premise of the story is that the Yankees had a lot of performances from older players exceeding expectations.
Anyway, after reading that fact about Pettitte, I started thinking about how he was a borderline hall of famer going into last year. N... Read Full Story
I did this at my site last year, so I thought I’d bust it out again. What I’m going to be doing is punching in some numbers into the lineup analysis tool from baseballmusings.com.
The numbers I’m going to be using are the 2010 CHONE Projections. I’m using them because RLYW’s CAIRO projections for non-Yankees haven’t been released. This allows me to be a little more even when including non-Yankees. Anyway, I’ll be doing a few different lineup con... Read Full Story
The Yankees have finished playing baseball, but that doesn’t mean that their season is over as the Hot Stove season is just getting started and the Bombers more than any other team seem to be involved in nearly every free agent or player on the trading block.
It is Joe Girardi and the team that dominate during the season, but starting around November it becomes Brian Cashman’s game. He’s the man in charge of putting another team together so what he says is more important t... Read Full Story
A year ago on this day in Yankee history, the blog Bronx Baseball Daily was started and since one of the reasons I started this blog was to document a season where I thought the Yankees had a good chance to go all the way, I’m going to celebrate by posting even more ticket-tape parade pictures.
These aren’t just any photos though. When I went to the parade I arrived at 8:30 A.M. and ended up with a pretty good spot near Broadway and Wall St. What was cooler was I ended up meeting ... Read Full Story
