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Keith Law Joins Others in Burying Yankees’ Farm

Posted in Baseball, Mets, Minors, MLB, Prospects, Red Sox, Yankees on January 28, 2014 | 1 Comment »

If the Yankees are expecting reinforcements from the farm, they’d better stock up on Miracle-Gro. At least that seems to be the consensus of the most respected talent evaluators in the baseball media. Keith Law is the latest prospect guru to offer a less than sanguine view of the Yankees’ prospect pipeline. Coming on the […]

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OPS Leaders and Laggards and Their Impact on Team Offense

Posted in Baseball, Mets, MLB, Red Sox, Statistical Analysis, Yankees on May 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Baseball is a team sport, but one hitter can disproportionately influence a lineup, in both a positive and negative sense. In the charts below are the players who currently have the highest and lowest qualified OPS for each team along with the impact their output has had on the overall performance of their offense. Team […]

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Breaking Down Keith Law’s 2013 Top-100 Prospect List

Posted in Baseball, Mets, Minors, MLB, Prospects, Red Sox, Yankees, tagged , on February 5, 2013 | 1 Comment »

It’s prospecting season for the baseball media’s minor league evaluators, the highlight of which has become the annual ranking compiled by former Blue Jays executive and current ESPN contributor Keith Law. What follows is a breakdown of Law’s rankings along with commentary about some of the selections (for last year’s breakdown, click here). Keith Law’s […]

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Rebuilding After an Epic Baseball Collapse

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Mets, MLB, Post Season, Red Sox, Yankees on September 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

(The following was originally published at SB*Nation’s Pinstriped Bible) After the Braves clinched a playoff spot, New York Times’ columnist Tyler Kepner marked the occasion by commenting about how “teams almost never recover from an epic collapse” like the one Atlanta experienced last season. After all, one need only look at the ruins in Boston to […]

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Amid Collapse, Yankees Still Have Time to Rebuild

Posted in Alex Rodriguez, Arod, Baseball, Mets, MLB, Red Sox, Roster Analysis, Yankees on September 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The Yankees are in the midst of a collapse. Many fans have been sensitive about using that word, but it’s an appropriate description for what has happened to the team since establishing a 10-game lead in the middle of July. The Yankees’ lead has not been leveled completely, but the 2012 Bronx Bombers have already […]

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For One Night at Least, Matt Harvey Is for Real (the Pitcher, not the Rabbit)

Posted in Baseball, Mets, MLB, Prospects, Yankees, tagged on July 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The storm clouds gathering over the New York Mets were cast aside in the Arizona desert by the debut of Matt Harvey, who became the first pitcher in franchise history and 13th overall to strikeout at least 11 batters in his first big league appearance. In addition, his game score of 70 was the third […]

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Like the NFL, Toradol Has Become Baseball’s Dirty Secret; MLB Needs to Treat Abuse of All PEDs Equally

Posted in Baseball, Injuries, Mets, MLB, NFL, tagged on July 13, 2012 | 4 Comments »

The clubhouse in Boston is a Nation divided. According to a lengthy report by ESPNBoston’s Gordon Edes, manager Bobby Valentine hasn’t been well received by his coaches or players, and each side has expressed frustration over the lack of communication that has resulted. Over the next few days, Edes’ allegations of discord will probably be […]

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