By now, everyone knows the news: the Yankees announced Tuesday morning that they have re-signed manager Aaron Boone to a three-year contract. This of course, was met with much reaction ranging from emotional distress to general indifference (and of course, the opportunity to pounce on some low-hanging fruit). But this was expected given the reporting […]
Yankees hitters across the board, save Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge, underperformed at the plate in 2021. In fact if someone told you prior to the season that players like DJ LeMahieu, Gleyber Torres and Gio Urshela would perform like they did, you’d be shocked. Yet at the same time, the poor results of this […]
Monday night was unfamiliarly demoralizing. I normally pay very little attention to baseball after the Yankees are eliminated, and certainly have never been too emotional about a matchup between two teams that are not mine, but watching the Red Sox celebrate their relatively easy 3-1 ALDS win struck a raw chord. Perhaps it was the […]
Let’s get this out of the way at the top: a one-game playoff is a fundamentally flawed way to determine the outcome of a baseball season. The 105-win Dodgers are a bad night away from being sent home by a team that won 15 fewer games. The Yankees and Red Sox, evenly matched throughout the […]
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