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Archive for June 4th, 2010

Cecil’s Change, Bautista’s Bat Leave Yankees Seasick

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A Yankee fan growing up, Brett Cecil wasn’t very kind to the team for which he used to root. The young Jays lefty kept the Yankees off balance for most of the game with a dynamic changeup, which he threw a relatively high 28 times, including 19 times for strikes (mostly swinging). With the exception […]

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Game 55: Yankees vs. Blue Jays

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The Yankees travel north to face the Blue Jays for the first time this season and will encounter a power laden team that leads the league in HRs by 17. Ironically, it isn’t proven stars like Aaron Hill and Adam Lind who are leading the power surge, but journeymen like Jose Bautista and Alex Gonzalez. […]

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Tale of Two Griffeys: More Recent Struggles Obscure Best of Times in the 1990s

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After bursting on the scene as “the Kid” and establishing himself as the darling of baseball, Ken Griffey Jr. slowly descended into a curious level of anonymity for a player of his historic ability. Therefore, it was somewhat appropriate that Griffey’s retirement (announced exactly 23 years to the date he was drafted by the Mariners) […]

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