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Dodging the Draft: A Look Back at the Yankees’ Neglect of the Draft in the 1980s

Posted in Baseball on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday, we took a look at the Yankees’ complete list of first round selections. Aside from the significant number of players who never even made the majors, what jumps out most is that from 1979 to 1989, the Yankees only had two first round selections in the June draft. Listed below is a chart that […]

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Culver City: Yankees Surprise With Choice of High School SS; Breakdown of Bombers’ Past First Round Selections

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankee History, Yankees on June 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Yankees threw most draft watchers a curve by selecting unheralded Cito Culver, a short stop out of Irondequoit High School in Rochester, New York. With several highly touted names like Anthony Ranaudo, Peter Tago, Tyrell Jenkins and Nick Castellanos still on the board, the choice of Culver, who was ranked outside of most pre-draft […]

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D-Day: Nats Set To Strike Draft Gold Once Again; Roundup of Latest Projections for Yanks at #32

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankees on June 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

On the eve of unveiling last year’s prize from the 2009 amateur draft, the Nationals are once again projected to get a very special player with the first pick in this year’s draft, which begins tonight at 7:00PM ET. Although not as highly touted as Stephen Strasburg, Bryce Harper is this year’s wunderkind. Harper, a […]

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Jays’ Pitchers Do More Hitting Than Yankees’ Batters, Helping Bombers Avoid Sweep

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankees on June 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Yankees were two innings away from being swept to the precipice of fourth place when the offense finally started to hit…or, rather, get hit. Trailing 2-0 in the top of the 8th, starter Brandon Morrow started the inning by hitting Francisco Cervelli in the shoulder. Then, reliever Scott Downs followed up by plunking Brett […]

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Game 57: Yankees vs. Blue Jays

Posted in Baseball, Game Recap, MLB, Yankees on June 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Stadium slugfest may have been held in the Bronx last night, but during the afternoon in Toronto, the Yankees and Blue Jays compiled more punch outs than Mike Tyson did in his entire career. After perhaps their most abysmal offensive performance of the year, epitomized by Mark Teixeira’s record tying five strikeout performance, the […]

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

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankees on June 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankees on June 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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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