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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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Top 5 Starting Rotations Entering 2023

In this one, I will list and predict my Starting Rotations for the 2023 season, assuming all these teams stay fully healthy this season, I could see this being the teams with the best-starting pitching. 1.) New York Mets In my mind, the Mets have the best starting rotation entering this season. According to FanGraphs, […]

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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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Yankees Lose 5th Starter as Several Players Avoid Arbitration

Montas sidelined for first month with shoulder inflammation After a day full of signings for arbitration-eligible Yankees, NY Post Sports broke the news that Frankie Montas will miss at least the first full month of the 2023 season. Montas, the presumed 5th starter for the Yankees to start the year, came over in a trade with […]

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