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The weather decided not to cooperate with the Yankees last night, as the rain would’ve had the team waiting around until well after 10 p.m. to start Saturday’s scheduled game. With a matinee on deck today, that timeline was deemed too brutal to wait things out, and thus we have another two-game set with a […]
ESPN | Jorge Castillo: Perhaps unsurprisingly, one of the first questions to arise in the wake of Austin Wells’ surprise IL trip pertained to whether the Yankees’ best healthy hitter could help take up some slack at catcher. While Aaron Boone did not shut the door on Ben Rice donning the tools of ignorance, he […]
A seemingly minor delay turned into a postponement on Saturday night, as the Yankees and Red Sox won’t be taking the field. They have instead rescheduled this game for August 29th—another Saturday—in which these two clubs will play a doubleheader with the first game taking place at 1:05 p.m. According to a press release from […]
In a surprising move, the Yankees placed Austin Wells on the injured list just ahead of Saturday’s soon-to-be-postponed with the Boston Red Sox. To replace Wells, the choice to fill in as the backup catcher is J.C. Escarra, returning to the big league club one day after getting sent down in favor of righty-hitting Ali […]
The Yankees are in a bit of an odd state heading into play on Saturday against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. They already know that they’re going to be without Aaron Judge for at least the better part of two months (if not more) due to a stress fracture in his rib. They’ve lost […]
Will Warren versus Ranger Suárez represents the perfect pitching matchup to highlight the difference between these two teams in the success of developing starting pitchers in-house. While the Red Sox felt compelled to go outside the organization and spend big on a mid-level starter—in other words, someone who wasn’t necessarily signed to anchor the rotation—the […]
By any measure, Bill Dickey is an all-time great in both Yankees’ and baseball history. He was an 11-time All-Star, helping the Yankees to eight World Series titles, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. However, he doesn’t quite get the recognition that you might expect someone with those accolades to get. That’s […]
The Yankees eked out a win on Thursday to avoid being swept by the Guardians, largely on the back of an excellent start from Carlos Rodón. Rodón held Cleveland to a run on two hits and three walks against seven strikeouts in six innings. That makes it three straight starts by the veteran southpaw of […]
The Yankees dropped the opener of their weekend series against the Red Sox on Friday, losing 5-3 with all of the damage done in three consecutive innings against Ryan Weathers. Spencer Jones went 3-for-3 with an RBI in his return to the team following Judge’s placement on the IL and Ben Rice hit his 18th […]
Last week, when I was reading Sam’s piece about the messy state of much of the American League, I was struck by how many teams now mired in a rut were considered by many prognosticators to be contenders coming into the season. The AL East was supposed to be a four-horse race between New York, […]
Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders: W, 4-0 at Syracuse Mets — as the headline says, a combined no-no for the RailRiders, their first since a shortened seven-inning effort in 2021 SS George Lombard Jr. 0-4, BB, 3 KDH Jasson Domínguez 0-4, K — first rehab appearance since his left-field wall collision in the Bronx PR-DH Ernesto Martinez […]
Didn’t like that Yankees/Red Sox game last night! Bad pitches, defensive sloppiness, and some uncompetitive at-bats to boot, too. And the Yanks still didn’t lose by much because Boston isn’t that good. Annoying! Whatever, on to the next. Today on the site, Kento will muse on the Yankees’ skill and relative luck both helping them […]
ESPN | Jorge Castillo and David Schoenfield: In light of Aaron Judge’s rib fracture, the whole baseball world is now wondering what the captain’s absence will mean for the Yankees. Most immediately, it presses Spencer Jones into duty, but it will also open up ample opportunity for Jasson Domínguez and Giancarlo Stanton once healthy. It places […]
While they’ve already played a handful of games without him, Friday night’s game against the Red Sox marked the first one for the Yankees since Aaron Judge was placed on the injured list with a fractured rib. Let’s just say the early returns on the lineup without him weren’t glowing. It won’t go down as […]
On Wednesday, the Yankees were dealt a blow when it was announced that Aaron Judge is going to miss 4-6 weeks after suffering a stress fracture in his ribs. While Judge had struggled somewhat before the diagnosis of his injury, which was part of the issue, the Yankees’ lineup was already sputtering a bit. Now, […]
Good afternoon everyone, it’s time to dive back into the mailbag and answer some of your questions. Remember to send in your questions for our weekly call by e-mail to pinstripealleyblog [at] gmail [dot] com. The idiot that said, “Harper is coming” asks: Rather than focus on trade acquisition candidates, let’s focus on who might get […]
The World Cup is right around the corner, and while baseball teams carry on their business, 48 nations will be traveling about the North American continent, fighting for the ultimate prize in what’s widely regarded as the biggest sporting event in the world. With less than a week to go before the start of this […]
To many fans, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig represent the “beginning” of Yankees history, the first true stars whose performance at the plate kickstarted the first ever Yankees dynasty in the 1920s. But the Yankees did not emerge ex nihil when Ruth joined the team in 1920. Seventeen years prior, a new squad, named the […]
In light of Aaron Judge’s stress fracture in his right rib, the Yankees will be without their captain and three-time AL MVP for at least four-to-six weeks. It will probably be longer than that. So, with Giancarlo Stanton and Jasson Domínguez still not ready to return from their respective injuries, the organization decided to call […]
The Yankees managed to salvage a win and avoid a sweep by the Guardians at Yankee Stadium on the back of strong solid pitching from Carlos Rodón, shutdown bullpen work, and some clutch hitting by Ryan McMahon. With the win, the Yankees climb to within a half-game of the Rays, who had the day off. […]
After a week out west, the Yankees returned home on Tuesday for a series against the Guardians that could’ve gone better. The Yankees dropped the opening two games of the series, before eking out a 2-1 win in the finale. Looming over the proceedings is the fact that Aaron Judge is about to hit the […]
Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders: L, 3-2 at Syracuse Mets SS George Lombard Jr. 2-4LF Spencer Jones 1-3, BB, K — see you tonight maybe?RF Oswaldo Cabrera 1-4, RBI1B Seth Brown 0-4, K3B Tyler Hardman 1-4, HR, RBI, K — starting to come alive at the higher levelDH Ernesto Martinez Jr. 0-4, 3 KC Ali Sánchez 0-4CF Duke […]
It has not been the best week in Yankee Universe, the Bombers offense looking a little sluggish in a three-game set with the Guardians while the team held its breath as Aaron Judge underwent an endless series of tests and imaging. We’ve at last gotten an answer on Judge, and it’s not a good one: […]
Associated Press | Larry Fleisher: The Yankees maintained hope throughout the week that Aaron Judge’s rib injury wouldn’t be too serious, with the captain undergoing a long series of tests and imaging. That hope was dashed last night, as the team announced that Judge has been diagnosed with a stress fracture in his right rib […]
The Yankees announced tonight that Aaron Judge has been diagnosed with a stress fracture in his right rib. Judge will be re-evaluated in four to six weeks after a period of rest and limited activity. It’s a crushing piece of news, though one that at least avoids the worst-case scenario. After days of testing, fears […]