Author: Scott Fiedler
Anthony Volpe: The Chosen Number
Anthony Volpe Makes Number Announcement I am excited that 21-year-old Anthony Volpe has made the Opening Day Roster as the starting shortstop for the New York Yankees. With all honesty, I thought the Yankees would send him to Triple-A to finish off his development and call him up later in the season, perhaps sometime before […]
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Yankees Facing Roster Decisions
Finding the Best Twenty-Six Men Opening Day is right around the corner. The New York Yankees play the San Francisco Giants on Thursday, March 30th, at Yankee Stadium, and difficult roster decisions are looming on the immediate horizon. The most difficult decision is the top-ranked Yankees prospect, Anthony Volpe. Volpe is a fan favorite to […]
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The Baby Bombers, Part 2
Youth Excitement Returns Antony Volpe, Oswald Peraza, and Jasson Dominguez have been major revelations this Spring, which is surprising considering they are already the top three-ranked prospects in the organization and have drawn much focus during their respective developments in the minor league system. Entering Spring Training, Oswald Peraza, 22, was the only player viewed […]
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Predicting the Yankees Opening Day Roster
The Quest for Championship #28 Continues Yankee Stadium will soon be alive with a house filled with enthusiastic Yankee fans awaiting the home team to take the field against the San Francisco Giants. Three weeks from Thursday, the Yankees will be pulling on the pinstripes for the first of one hundred sixty-two games. Time will […]
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The Power of Two Yankees
Torres and Dominguez with the first Spring Home Runs On Saturday, the New York Yankees made their Spring debut BayCare Ballpark in Clearwater, Florida, against the Philadelphia Phillies. While they did not win the meaningless pitch clock-controlled game, they saw home runs from two polarizing players who drew much attention from the Yankees fan base. […]
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Two Questions Facing the Yankees
Help Wanted: Pitching, Hitting, and Defense Spring is alive even if the calendar does not catch up until next month. The beautiful sights and wondrous sounds at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida, as pitchers and catchers reported Wednesday, along with a few position players who showed up early in advance of Monday’s reporting […]
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Cortes and the Aborted Mission
Nestor withdraws from WBC due to strained hamstring The end of the Super Bowl always opens the door for Major League Baseball, even if Spring, by definition, is more than a month away. Monday, February 13th, represented the early reporting date for the players participating in this year’s World Baseball Classic (WBC). For the Yankees, […]
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The Spring of Optimism
Baseball Season is nearly here. Yankees Baseball is back. As the saying goes, Spring is in the air! On Thursday, pitchers and catchers report to George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida. Many players have already migrated to Tampa, and some, like Aaron Judge, already live there. Players participating in the World Baseball Classic must […]
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The Spellbinding Case of New York or Nowhere
Judge rules for Pinstriped Pride… As the offseason winds down, it is hard not to wonder if the New York Yankees have done enough to improve their club for the 2023 campaign. Yet, regardless, Yankees fans are tremendously grateful that native Californian Aaron Judge chose to return to the Bronx. After the unsuccessful attempt by […]
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The Reign of Brian Cashman
Yankees GM celebrates his Twenty-Fifth Year Brian Cashman has been the General Manager of the New York Yankees for twenty-five years. When Bob Watson resigned in February 1998, Cashman became the sixteenth general manager under George Steinbrenner, who had acquired the team twenty-five years earlier. Cashman was just thirty years old when he took the […]
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