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The first iteration of the Yankees’ 2010 CAIRO projections are now posted on this page. I am still in the process of inspecting all the projections to make sure they look right, but hope to release the first set of CAIRO projections for everyone early next week.
A few notes:
I haven’t ...
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R.A. Dickey
New York Yankees
Philip Hughes
NEW YORK—Moving to protect their Minor Leaguers from the upcoming Rule 5 Draft, the Yankees shifted seven players onto their 40-man roster late Friday afternoon.
The Yankees also outrighted Shelley Duncan to the Minors, removing him from the 40-man roster. Doing so kept the roster at 39, ...
MLB
New York Yankees
Shelley Duncan
Romulo Sanchez
Larry Koestler at Yankeeist.com is running some interviews with fellow Yankee bloggers. He interviewed Alex Belth and Cliff Corcoran from Bronx Banter a few days ago and has now lowered the bar by interviewing me. We get into the history of the RLYW and some of my favorite Yankee ...
MLB
New York Yankees
Coming off a 2008 season where he faded badly down the stretch, there was some question about whether or not the Yankees should bring back Andy Pettitte. This was confirmed in the offseason as both the Yankees and Pettitte seemed less than committed to a reunion. When the Yankees ...
MLB
Andy Pettitte
New York Yankees
Chone Figgins
Robinson Cano began his MLB career by hitting .314/.346/.489 over the first 1728 PAs. Heading into his age 25 year in 2008, big things were expected. Instead, Cano had an abysmal season, hitting .271/.305/.410. The projection systems all expected him to improve on that in 2009 ...
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Robinson Cano
New York Yankees
Chone Figgins
It took an injury that cost him the bulk of 2008 for a lot of Yankee fans to finally appreciate just how important Jorge Posada has been to the Yankees during his career. Coming off that injury and subsequent surgery as a 37 year old catcher, how much Posada would contribute in 2009 was a ...
MLB
Jorge Posada
New York Yankees
Joe Mauer
Chone Figgins
Billy Martin was the most fearless manager in baseball history. In 20 years of managing, he never backed down from a challenge. As has been well documented by others, Martin consistently caused dramatic improvements to his squads immediately upon arrival by pushing them hard. The A’s went from ...
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Billy Wagner
New York Yankees
Oakland Athletics
Detroit Tigers
Minnesota Twins
After breaking camp in 2008 as a member of the starting rotation, ineffectiveness then injury led to a disastrous season for Phil Hughes.
With the memories of 2008 still in the not-so-distant past, Hughes started 2009 in AAA, making three strong starts before being called up on April 28 to ...
MLB
New York Yankees
Philip Hughes
Baltimore Orioles
Chone Figgins
Detroit Tigers
After finishing second in the AL MVP balloting in 2006, Derek Jeter proceeded to decline in 2007 and 2008, and thngs didn’t look great heading into 2009. Jeter shocked the world by rebounding to put up another MVP-caliber season at the advanced baseball of age of 35. Here’s a look at his ...
MLB
Derek Jeter
New York Yankees
Chone Figgins
The new world is bright and full of possibilities, and that excites both of them. Aroldis Chapman, who spent the first 21 years of his life shackled to an island, is absorbing his fresh tableau: skyscrapers and technology and the siren of vast riches unattainable in Cuba. Meanwhile, Chapman’s ...
MLB
New York Yankees
Aroldis Chapman
Boston Red Sox
Type # max min avg ball % stkS% foul% stkC% In play, out(s)% In play, no out % HBP % Four-seam fastball 1717 97.6 87.0 92.5 40.9% 3.3% 15.7% 20.1% 12.2% 4.3% 0.4% Slider 515 92.2 75.0 84.6 27.4% 18.3% 12.2% 18.6% 11.3% 4.5% 0.4% Curveball 329 92.0 73.0 79.3 39.5% 14.9% 8.5% 21.3% 7.0% ...
MLB
New York Yankees
Joba Chamberlain
CHICAGO—In a cost-cutting frame of mind, the Tigers have let teams know Curtis Granderson could be had for the right package, an NL executive told The Post.
The Yankees will almost certainly push to the front of the line when it comes to Granderson. He obviously would be an upgrade on the ...
MLB
New York Yankees
Brett Gardner
Melky Cabrera
Detroit Tigers
Curtis Granderson
Of the seven Yankees eligible for free agency, six have already filed. Andy Pettitte has yet to make it official but Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui, Jose Molina, Eric Hinske, Jerry Hairston Jr. and Xavier Nady have filed, and the Yankees have eight more days of exclusive rights to negotiate a deal ...
MLB
Johnny Damon
New York Yankees
Brian Cashman
Hideki Matsui
Andy Pettitte
Jose Molina
Even though the carpets in the clubhouse probably still stink of champagne, writers and bloggers and ill-informed yahoos everywhere are already putting fuel on the hot stove, with visions of Lackey or Holliday or Chapman dancing in their heads.
Most of the core of the 2009 Yankees will be ...
MLB
New York Yankees
Shortstop Derek Jeter and first baseman Mark Teixeira were named to the Rawlings American League Gold Glove team, taking home the awards for the fourth and third times in their Major League careers, respectively.
Here are the 2009 AL defensive metrics at each of the AL non-pitcher positions, ...
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Derek Jeter
Mark Teixeira
New York Yankees
While we've apparently already kind of moved into off-season mode, I'm going to try and do a quick retrospective on the key players for the 2009 Yankees, which also should also help us think about what we should expect from them going forward where applicable. Since we've started talking about ...
MLB
New York Yankees
Brett Gardner
Bill James
Free agents are classified as Type A, Type B or not at all. The compensation applies to free agents offered arbitration by their former club by the Dec. 1 deadline or to those who sign before then.
If a team signs a Type A free agent, its first-round pick goes to the former team—unless that ...
MLB
New York Yankees
Johnny Damon
Xavier Nady
Andy Pettitte
Hideki Matsui
Billy Wagner
replacementlevel.com - 10 days ago
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The Phillies certainly can point to any of
a number of dreadful performances and declare they should
have made a better showing in the series—in the clubhouse after Game Six, Rollins told reporters that the Phillies were better than the Yankees—but ...
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Hardball Times: Mahnken: Why the Yankees won the World ...
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NEW YORK — You can run down the list and see the difference. Start with Joe Nathan and Jonathan Papelbon. Move to Ryan Franklin and Huston Street. Then came Brian Fuentes and Jonathon Broxton. Throw in a smidge of Brad Lidge.
What’s the connection? Every main closer in the playoffs had a major ...
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Mariano Rivera
New York Yankees
Joe Nathan
Jonathan Papelbon
Ryan Franklin
NEW YORK—Johnny Damon’s last on-field action of the season was to touch home plate at Yankee Stadium, scoring on a two-run Hideki Matsui single in the third inning of Game 6 of the World Series.
That’s not a bad way to go out, but Damon is hoping it doesn’t mark his final movement in a Yankees ...
