No matter where you look, Christmas movies are everywhere at this time of year. In a similar vein, baseball films dominated this past summer, thanks in large part to Major League Baseball’s first Field of Dreams Game, a nationally-televised event in which the Yankees played the perfect villain role for the country by losing in […]
New York Post | Joel Sherman: Building on news from earlier this week, Joel Sherman reports that the Yankees are “monitoring the elite shortstop group rather than participating in it,” speculating that the team is looking to see if the market for one of the top guys collapses in the combination of the deep free […]
From 2017 to 2019, Chad Green was one of the most consistent arms out of the Yankee bullpen, and one of the better relief pitchers in baseball. Green owned the top of the zone with an overpowering, high-spin fastball, complimented by a solid slider. Like many pitchers who aim for strikeouts with fastballs at the […]
With the hapless Yankees offense going up against the Blue Jays’ ace and the Yankees slumping pitching staff facing the behemoth Toronto offense, many feared that this game would be a disaster for the Yankees. Although it seemed like this one would follow that path early, the Yankees’ offense mounted a comeback in the later […]
According to the new guidelines , starting pitchers will be checked on multiple occasions throughout the game, while relievers will be checked either when the inning in which they entered ends or when they are removed from the game — whichever comes first. Although acknowledging that the team’s rough performance “invites the scrutiny on us […]
Relievers become relievers largely because they can handle two pitches, but can’t reliably deliver three. Chad Green, one of the more reliable bullpen arms for the Yankees over the past six seasons, is a two-pitch pitcher, but that second pitch has been a journey. This means their fastballs are spinning so tightly they drop less […]