When you think of First Base for the Yankees, specifically in 2020, one can’t help but immediately think of Luke Voit. After all, Voit carried the Yankees for much of the season on his way to an MVP-Caliber performance. Yet prior to the season, nobody could truly see this coming. In fact, back in February, […]
Month: October 2020
Yankees Decline Options of Gardner and Happ
Following the announcement that the Yankees chose to use Zach Britton’s option for 2022, sourced confirmed that the Yankees chose to decline the options of outfielder, Brett Gardner, and left-handed pitcher, J.A. Happ. With their options declined, Gardner and Happ now both become free agents. Brett Gardner will get a $2.5 million buyout rather than […]
Yankees Exercise Zack Britton’s Option Through 2022
With the World Series over, teams across Major League Baseball are beginning to take care of off-season business and make decisions regarding exercising player-options, evaluating free agency, etc. The Yankees handled their first piece of off-season business on Thursday by exercising left-handed pitcher, Zack Britton’s option through 2022. Britton’s contract had a clause that required […]
Why Yankees Must Use Offseason to Figure Out Internal Pitching Roles
While the New York Yankees have many questions to answer during this winter, there is one internal problem that they have to try to figure out and it involves their pitching. Across the league, teams have put their trust in different young pitchers. Yes, some of them are because they have to due to injuries […]
Yankees 2020 What Went Right: Bright Spots
To wrap up the Pinstriped Prospects series on what went wrong during the 2020 season, it’s fitting to do so by looking at some of the bright spots. While the Yankees ultimately fell short of their Championship goal, they still had plenty of positives to take away. Luke Voit Perhaps the biggest surprise not just […]
Yankees 2020 What Went Wrong: Postseason Woes Strike Again
One of the most exhausted and overused tropes in sports analysis is the idea that some teams and players are built to win in the playoffs and others aren’t. And at this point, it’s almost as common to assert the contrary: that research has proven that “clutch” isn’t a real thing, and if you’re good […]
Yankees 2020 What Went Wrong: Mid-Season Collapse
It may feel like the Yankees’ season was slow and painful from the very beginning. In reality that wasn’t the case at all. If you recall, the Yankees started the 2020 season 8-1. Yes, believe it or not, there was a point where it felt like the Yankees may never lose again. Aaron Judge was […]
Yankees 2020 What Went Wrong: Pitching Woes
Heading into the last offseason, the general sentiment among Yankee fans was that the team’s major area of need was pitching – specifically, starting pitching. In the six-game ALCS against powerhouse Houston, the team’s lack of depth was horribly exposed. It didn’t have a true ace; it had a disappointing James Paxton, a diminished Masahiro […]
Yankees 2020 What Went Wrong: Hitting And Defense
For the fourth straight season, Yankees’ fans have been handed the same old story. “We’re close.” And the reality of it is, that’s true. The Yankees are close, but Yankees fans don’t care about close. I think fans cared about close in 2017 and 2018. They don’t want to be close anymore, they want to […]
2020 ALDS Preview: Breaking Down the Tampa Bay Rays
The Yankees took care of business against the Cleveland Indians, earning themselves a date with the Tampa Bay Rays in a best-of-5 ALDS at Petco Park starting on Monday. From an emotional standpoint, there’s a couple of ways to look at this series. One angle would be to say that the Yankees went 2-8 against […]