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BBTF's Looking Forward to ... Discussion :: Looking Forward to 2008:  New York Yankees
New York Yankees Even though the Yankee front office has been preaching player development and patience, we here at BTF and Count the Rings™ can’t develop out own talent for anything … so what do we do come preview time? We assemble a bunch of all-stars from elsewhere in the blogosphere. That’s just how we roll. We did this the last two years under the premise that no team is more projected ...
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Yankees blogger roundtable
Scott Proctor's Arm - A New York Yankees Blog — ... and the Baseball Think Factory invited me to participate in a roundtable discussion on the 2008 New York Yankees. Joining me were Steve Lombardi from Was Watching, SG from RLYW and all three writers from River Ave. Blues (Ben, Joe and Mike). It was fun participating in this discussion. Some questions got me thinking, so it was nice to develop opinions on issues I wouldn't have given notice to otherwise. Our answers can be found here.

Previewing the season, 26 games in
River Avenue Blues — ... While 16 percent of the baseball season has come and gone already, some folks are still rolling out thes season previews. Yesterday, Baseball Think Factory unleashed its Yankee blogger roundtable on the world. Joe, Mike and I all participated in the 20-question exercise. Check it out. And for the record, if Jason Giambi keeps on hitting, I won’t consider him “a baseball train wreck” for much longer. ...

And with that, 2008 comes to a close
Scott Proctor's Arm - A New York Yankees Blog — ... The final record is 89-73, eight games behind the Tampa Bay Rays in the AL East and six games behind the Boston Red Sox in the wild-card. I predicted the Yankees would go 90-72 and make the playoffs as wild-card winners. Oops. I also predicted Jason Giambi would have under 15 home runs. Oops again. At least I said Melky Cabrera would hit under .280 and Robinson Cano would have less than 50 walks. ...

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