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Overextended? Is the Yankees Budget Really Constrained by Need To Sign Young Core?

Posted in Baseball on March 2, 2019 | Leave a Comment »

The Yankees’ spending freeze was expected to thaw this winter. With two of baseball’s brightest young stars on the market and reportedly eager to shine in the Bronx, almost everyone assumed at least one would be wearing pinstripes. Conventional wisdom was wrong. In fact, the Yankees didn’t even make a formal offer to Bryce Harper […]

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It Happens Every Spring: A Retrospective Rundown of Yankees Spring Training

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Spring Training, Yankee History, Yankee Stadium, Yankees on February 10, 2019 | 3 Comments »

(This updated post was originally published on February 16, 2011) For over 20 years, Tampa has been the Yankees’ spring training home, but it still seems like just yesterday when the team’s camp was located down the coast in Ft. Lauderdale. I am sure most fans who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s still reflexively […]

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Solving Baseball’s Free Agency Freeze Requires Addressing a Crisis of Competition

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on February 2, 2019 | Leave a Comment »

For the second straight winter, baseball’s hot stove has run cold. With the free agent market in a deep freeze, unthawed by the superstar talent of Bryce Harper and Manny Machado, and the game’s former big spenders conspicuous by their inactivity, whispers about pending labor strife have grown louder. Some have even mentioned the “C” […]

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Breaking Down MLB Payroll and Revenue Data (in Tweet Form)

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 11, 2019 | Leave a Comment »

AP has released MLB’s official salary data for 2018, and in many stories there is some conflicting data, particularly with regard to the percentage of revenue allocated to salaries. Following are some clarification and interpretation. You will often see Scott Boras quoted with a claim that players get a mid-40% share, but it seems like […]

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All Isn’t Grand(al) for MLB Free Agents as Crisis of Competition Weighs on the Market

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , , , on January 10, 2019 | Leave a Comment »

Major League Baseball may be in the midst of a free agency paradigm shift, but Yasmani Grandal’s contract is not the tipping point. After the 30-year old catcher signed a one-year deal, instead of the multi-year deal he expected, many have wondered whether this will be the last straw that breaks the back of baseball’s […]

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Robbie’s Return Makes Cents for the Yankees; Reunion with Cano Could Turn Contract Burden into a Bargain

Posted in Baseball on November 28, 2018 | 1 Comment »

Five years after parting, the Yankees and Robinson Cano could be headed for a reunion. The Mariners, who have begun an aggressive tear down, are reportedly eager to shed the $120 million remaining on Cano’s contract, and the Bronx Bombers are one of the teams that has expressed an interest. But, is Cano still a […]

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2018 MLB Post Season Long Ball Meter with Small Ball and Innings Tracker

Posted in Baseball on October 18, 2018 | 1 Comment »

All data is final as of October 29, 2018. One of baseball’s most often repeated axioms states that, although home runs work just fine in the regular season, once the calendar turns to October, small ball becomes a more effective method for scoring runs. This mantra is proclaimed with such certainty that all who hear […]

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