One of my secrets is that I’m always ready for the baseball season to come to an end, whenever it finally does. It’s not that I don’t love baseball. I love it too much. I watch at least some of every single Yankee game, every year. That’s nearly a 200 day commitment, one that keeps [...]

I feel a bit guilty not opening with something about Jesus Montero‘s big day, but this was just way too cool to pass up. It’s from (a highly recommended follow). On the left is Curtis’ hot zone map for power hitting (Iso) facing lefties in 2010, and on [...]

The Yankees have the night off before opening up a home series against the A’s on Tuesday night. For those of you who are interested, the Giants are playing on Monday Night Football on ESPN tonight. Use this as your open thread. Enjoy!

Check out the hourly forecast from Accuweater. I don’t see how they’re going to get this one in. There’s a 2 hour window around 1:00 where the chance of rain drops to 40-50%, then shoots back up to 90% for the rest of the day. If they do play, they’ll be dancing between [...]

The Yankees are off tonight. They take action again on Tuesday against the Angels. In the mean time, please use this as tonight’s open thread.

While we’re on subjects only tangentially related to the Yankees, we have an announcement here at TYA. On Saturday many of the TYA writers will be getting together at

So I check in to the MLB trade rumors week in review, and you know what they have on the Yanks? Squat. Oh sure, they signed Marcus Thames to a minor league deal, and made a phone call to the Tampa Bay Rays that lasted about a minute. Other than that? Nothing.

And [...]