June 8 Game Thread: Meet the Mets

By On June 8, 2012 · 82 Comments · In Game Thread

As a Yankee fan, I have a difficult time feeling much vitriol toward the Mets, or even thinking of them as a rival, as we see in other crosstown rivalries like White Sox-Cubs.  Most likely, this stems from the fact that throughout my entire lifetime as a fan, it has pretty much been a one-sided [...]

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Yankees Sign Dominican Righty

By On June 8, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Prospects

The Yankees agreed to terms yesterday with Dominican right-handed pitcher Manolo Reyes, 22, signing the former Braves prospect for a total of $600,000 according to Baseball America’s Ben Badler. While the diminutive right-hander has pitched in professional baseball as a big league farmhand his brief agreement with the Braves was voided less than three [...]

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Why I’ll Be Rooting For Johan Santana

By On June 8, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Positive Storylines

As we enter this weekend’s series against the amazing Mets tonight, there has been nothing more amazing than . One week from today, the 33 year old southpaw pitched the Met’s first no-hitter of the team’s 51 year history, 8,019 games of what if’s as they watched Nolan Ryan, Tom Seaver, [...]

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How they stack up: Hitters

By On June 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

Yesterday, I checked in on how the Yankees’ offense and pitching staff stack up against the rest of the AL, now let’s take a look at the position players, one by one. We’ll go numerically according to the scorebook.

Catcher:

AVG/OBP/SLG/OPS/OPS+: .210/.347/.391/.739/99
Avg. AL catcher: .244/.314/.399/.713
Martin vs. [...]

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