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Staff Infection Puts Yankees Playoff Hopes on Life Support; Team Needs Starters to Pitch In for Wild Card Push 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
The Yankees offense has been their Achilles heel for most of the season. However, even amid a mini resurgence with the bats, the team’s starting pitchers have taken enough stutter steps to keep the Br...
Yankees Make Like Early Birds in Day Games After Night 22 Aug 2013 | 09:20 pm
This afternoon, the Yankees follow up a “dreaded double header” with the equally lamented “day game after a night game”. These two scheduling hurdles are never greeted enthusiastically by managers, es...
Let’s Play Two: Yankees Have Historically Doubled Their Pleasure in Twin Bills (Updated) 20 Aug 2013 | 10:33 pm
The post below has been updated to reflect changes since original publication. Whenever a team is forced to play a doubleheader, the manager will usually express a universal lament about how difficul...
Comeback to the Future: Has Time Run Out on the Yankees? 19 Aug 2013 | 09:47 pm
The Yankees have reached the three-quarter pole, and their position in the pennant race is an unfamiliar one. Instead of leading the field, the Bronx Bombers find themselves stalking a wide field that...
Walking More and Striking Out Less? A Look at League and Individual Rates 10 Aug 2013 | 12:16 am
Although strikeouts in Major League Baseball have declined slightly this season, the overall trajectory in the last decade has been a precipitous rise. Meanwhile, walks have been gradually dwindling o...
MLB Tactics in Biogenesis Case Raise Old Question, Hark Back to Steinbrenner/Winfield Saga 8 Aug 2013 | 12:11 am
One of the most prominent figures in all of sports, whose controversial tenure with the Yankees kept the tabloids in business, was given an unprecedented suspension from an overzealous commissioner wh...
Fans, Media Hold Nose for Arod, but It’s Yankees Offense that Stinks 6 Aug 2013 | 09:14 pm
If Alex Rodriguez’ controversial return was a distraction last night, the Yankees should be grateful. With the spotlight squarely on Arod, another lackluster effort by the Bronx Bombers went largely u...
Hiroki Kuroda’s Brilliance Thrusts Righty into Cy Young Race, Keeps Yankees in Playoff Hunt 1 Aug 2013 | 08:56 pm
Kuroda has helped pump up the struggling Yankees (Photo: AP). Hiroki Kuroda is the Yankees’ best starter. Even CC Sabathia doesn’t dispute the veteran right hander’s ascendance to ace status. Howe...
Bud Selig’s Changing View of Baseball’s Best Interests 30 Jul 2013 | 11:20 pm
Bud Selig is about to use the nuclear option on Alex Rodriguez. Baseball’s collective bargaining agreement is mostly very specific in its delegation of power, but there is a broad clause that grants ...
Yankees Come Full Circle with Acquisition of Alfonso Soriano, but Alex Rodriguez Has Team Chasing Its Tail 26 Jul 2013 | 08:15 pm
While Alex Rodriguez and Brian Cashman continue to dicker over the third baseman’s reinstatement to the active roster, the Yankees are set to welcome back the man they traded for Arod 10 years ago. Th...
