This is the hardest blog post I have ever done. The retirement of all time great and the best player in Major League Baseball for the past twenty seasons, Derek Jeter has hit me hard. The best player and one of the very first players drafted by Mr.S. (rip) and the YANKEES is gone and the hole he leaves offensively and defensively as the best shortstop in baseball is enormous. However, we must move on.
The YANKEES for 2015 will be fine and are reloading. With a very deep and talented starting rotation, albeit a starting rotation with much to prove, do not be surprised if this team performs far above expectations of the pundits and so called talking head experts. Didi Gregorius has been tabbed to replace Jeter at shortstop, which in reality can never be done. Didi needs to be himself, do what he does best and must not let the comparisons to Jeter get to him. Chase Headley has been given the third base position and that may be one of the best moves the YANKEES have made in the off season. The basic starting team will be McCann c. Teixeira 1b. Drew 2b. Headley 3b. Gregorius ss. Gardner lf. Elsbury cf. and Beltran rf. The YANKEES have a boatload of very promising minor leaguers, some of which who will undoubtedly be heard from over the 2015 season.
During the off season the YANKEES lost closer David Robertson, but have gotten better and deeper in the bullpen with the maturation of Betances and the signing of Miller. The closer spot has not been decided and possibly no one will be named. From start to finish the YANKEE pitching staff will be exemplary and carry the team a long way. The lineup on the other hand will have to come together and several players will have to step up their game over last seasons effort. The loss of Jeter, the leader, the captain, will leave a gaping hole that will have to filled by everyone in the lineup stepping up their performance.
Personally, I had an almost non-stop off season with interviews and evaluations. By my choice I am now on a year to year proprietary deal with the Steinbrenner sons. But they are not Mr.S. Hopefully, they will make the decisions that are best for the team, the fans, and winning.
I've noticed the stat frauds are almost non-existent here anymore. You guys and gals have done a great job beating them off, refuting and disproving their garbage man made formulas that are meaningless and useless. WINS and WINNING will always define the best players and teams. I will try to post more often this season and glad you are still here and growing the best baseball blog in the world, the WIN METHOD.
To conclude............LETS GO YANKEES.
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Come on guys. Wake up. Get your head in the game. WIN METHOD. Play for the team to win, not for yourself. afraud is a cancer, even as he smiles and makes nice.
We really do need a win.
Show us something Masahiro.
Tanaka time. Lets go Yankees.
YES, YRS, YES! The lineup explodes.
afraud with a bases loaded double for 3 runs, followed by Headley 2 run HR, followed by Drew solo HR. 7 run first inning for a 7-0 lead.
afraud delivers when it counts. More more.
it took a week into the season, and is sure nice to see. Seven run first inning.
7-0 Yanks after 1.
Yanks lead 10-3 after 4.
Tanaka completes five leaving ahead 10-4.
Everything is falling in for the Yankees tonight. Seeing eye grounders, pop fly singles.
And the beat goes on in the 6th.
13-4 Yanks after 6.
A laugher tonite. We needed one.
Finally a win for a starter.
After last nights much need win the Yanks head for their first road trip to Baltimore today.
3 night games in Baltimore starting tonight. Pineda, CC, Eovaldi scheduled to start.
Next goal, win a series,
When you watch shortstops play defense, you can see just how great Derek Jeter was defensively. The best there was.
The irrelevance of stats and the opinion of the stat frauds. The stats, the Yankees out scored, out hit, and out pitched the bosux this weekend. But the one and only stat that counts and determines the winners and the losers, shows what actually happened in the real world. The Yanks lost the series 2 games to 1. Go sniff some more glue stat frauds.
I see johnsondc posted at pinstripealley. Great post that should ruffle the feathers of stat frauds.
Hey wolfie, pinstripealley deleted my post already. They can't defend their lies so they make believe an opposing opinion to theirs does not exist. That is exactly why the stat frauds don't come here. Their lies are exposed here and they look like fools. Thank God for the WIN METHOD.
Same old same old with the forums. Classless and gutless.
Would love to keep hitting in Baltimore and win the series.
Yep, the frauds hate when they are told that wins are the most important factor in determining the best.
Yanks down 2-1 after 3.
2-2 after 5.
Drew grand slam in 7th gives Yanks 6-4 lead.
6-5 Yankees after 7.
6-5 final, the Yankeeeeeeeees winnn.
Pineda the win, Betances the hold, miller the save. 6-5 win.
Drew HR when it counts for the win.
Big come from behind win. Nothing like a few runs and clutch hits.
A very nice win, but then again most wins are nice.
A great WHEN it counts hit from Drew last night. That is WIN METHOD baseball. Three guys get on base and then the biggest hit to WIN the game.
Nice win, nice to see the fighting back and as usual the solid work of the bullpen.
Slowly but surely. Ivan Nova to throw live batting practice today.
Slow and easy Ivan, slow and easy. We can wait.
CC tonight. would be a nice game to win and build on.
Hoping CC can go seven full solid innings tonight.
Pineda gave up five runs and won. The win is the goal. And it take a team to win.
Much rain in the Baltimore area. If game is played, it will be on a wet field and with intermittent showers.
CC struggling. Yanks down 3-0 after 4.
CC with a decent effort. Goes 7 full innings allowing 4 runs , but Yanks lose 4-3.
Yanks lose it 4-3.
Jeter if he played tonight would be a bitter shortstop than what the Yankees now have, both offensively and defensively.
Good effort from CC, unfortunately not good enough without enough support. Seven innings is a big help for the bullpen. Eovaldi tonight with a win would be big.
Is afraud headed to the Interstate?
A good game for Eovaldi to shine.
Take this series.
Get your first Yankee win Eovaldi.
Yankees quickly down 1-0 after 1.
Yankees quickly down 1-0 after 1.
3-2 Yanks after 5. I don't ever recall so many pitches by each starter over five innings.
Wheels fall off wagon as Yankee bullpen Carpenter and Wilson blow lead in the 6th allowing 4 runs and Yanks now trail 6-3.
Another series lost and 3-6 to start the season. Not good, but hopefully still early.
On to Detroit for four game series. Hope we don't lose this series.
By golly, we need to at least split with the Tigs.
Carl, Sharon. Yanks go to Tampa for 3 games then to Detroit.
OK people, lets get it right. No game today for Yanks. Three game weekend series in Tampa starting tomorrow night.
Hope the day off helps.
Warren makes his second start of the season tonight in Tampa.
64 years ago today, one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle played in the first game of his career. Mickey was my first hero and I met and talked to him one on one many times. The "Commerce Comet" gave me a game used glove and bat in the late 50's that I still have today.
Nice WIN METHOD. Mantle was surely one of the best of the best.
Beautiful WIN METHOD, Love ya,
Will we take our first series of the season?
2-0 Yanks after 3 on afraud and Drew homers.
Warren, one bad inning, Yanks quickly down 4-2 after 5.
afraud again. 2 run dinger in 6th evens score at 4.
5-4 Yankees with Rays coming to bat in 8th.
Yankee bullpen on spot again. Yanks win 5-4.
afraud the hero tonight with 4 rbi's. Theeee Yankeeees Winnnnn. 5-4.
Final. 5-4 Yanks. Now to win at minimum 1 of the next 2.
We may be only 4-6 but we are playing decent ball.
4 1/3 shutout innings from the pen. Rogers, Wilson, Betances, and Miller.
Now to take this series. Tanaka goes tonight.
Just about time to string a bunch of wins.
Tonights game is on Fox Sports 1. Go Yankees.
0-0 after 1.
Scoreless after 5.
Yanks up 2-0 after 6 on McCann 2 run triple.
Yankees explode in the 7th for 7 runs capped by Chris Young grand slam. Lead 9-0 an will take first series of season.
Final, 9-0 win. Series won. Can get a sweep tomorrow.
Yanks win it 9-0. A very nice Saturday night game to watch.
Didn't know how long it would take to say this, but we could sweep a series this afternoon.
Michael Pineda will give us the chance for the sweep. Lets do it, go Yankees.
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeep!!!!!!!
Go guys. Lets start rolling.
Yanks trail 2-1 after 2.
4-2 Yanks after 4.
Pineda toughs out 5 2/3 innings and leves leading 5-3.
Eight complete 5-3 Yanks. Betances did his job again.
Miller another save. 5-3 win.
It's a sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
.500 ball and a bullet.
It's not the same without Jeter.
On to Detroit for four games.
Todays win could have been a bit easier with a hit when it mattered a lot.
Four with the Tigers starting today. CC, Eovaldi, Warren, Tanaka.
My goal. At least a split with the Tigers. Winning the series would be a big step forward.
After the Tigers we have three with the Mets at home. Should be an exciting week.
Play WIN METHOD baseball, play one game at a time.
The Yankee staff will be tested this week.
A time for CC to shine and get the old magic back.
Yanks 1-0 after 3 on Tex home run.
Yanks up 1-0 after 6.
Yanks with a tough 2-1 loss.
CC complete game but 2-1 loss.
The most dreaded of loses. The one run loss in a very well pitched game and not being able to get the extra run or two WHEN it counted.
Bright spot...CC's effort. Dark spot...the 2-1 loss.
Tough tough loss, some are just heartbreaking.
Eovaldi tonight to try to even the series.
Even the series guys, score some runs.
Repeat of last night? 1-0 Yanks after 4.
Yanks 1-0 after six.
Big Yankee 7th led by Young and Drew home runs. Lead 4-0 with Tigers coming up.
Eovaldi goes seven allowing just one run. Solid outing. Betances for the hold in the 8th. Yanks up 4-1 after 8. Miller likely for save in 9th.
Yanks up 4-1 after 8.
Theeeeee Yankeeeeeeeees Winnnnn.
Nice rebound game after last night.
5-2 final win.
Drew almost comes close to looking as good defensively as Jeter when at shortstop, but looks far better than Gregorius.
Adam Warren goes against David Price in tonight game. Would be a nice game for the Yankees to win.
Warren will need to be at his best. And several runs of support won't hurt.
One game at a time.
Lets go Yankees.
Would love to win this game tonight.
Six run first inning for Yanks. But it ain't over till it's over.
Warren can't do it. Implodes for four runs walking four batters. 6-4 Yanks after one. It may be one of those crazy games.
8-4 Yanks after 2.
Warren gets a 1,2,3 2nd. 8-4 Yanks.
10-4 Yankees after 4.
Warren to start the game walked 4 of the first 5 men he faced and they all scored. That is all he has given up thru four.
Yanks make it a laugher 13-4 after 7.
Final 13-4 win.
A very very nice win tonight.
What a win, pounding Price. Now if Tanaka can cap it off.
Go Masahiro. Get the win and cap off a great road trip.
i like to visit baseball talk forums every once ina while. Yankee forums particularly, and I am amazed the utter ignorance of so many posters on those forums. The moderators are even stupider. Guys, gals, you don't know how great this blog is.
A win today would make this road trip special.
Lets go Yankees, another gem Tanaka.
Yanks down 1-0 after 3.
Five innings done. 1-0 Tigers. Yank bats lacking so far.
Yanks get a WIN METHOD run in 6th.
1-1 after 6.
Yanks with another WIN METHOD run in the 8th and hold a 2-1 lead after 8. Lets finish it bullpen.
Going to the bottom of 9th leading 2-1.
Theeeeeeeee Yankeeeeeeeeeees Winnn
YES!!!! Final 2-1 win.
No let up guys. Head home and beat the Mets.
Lose 2-1 and it is brutal. Win 2-1 and how sweet it is. Love the WIN METHOD. It is real, not fantasy league crapola.
No let up this weekend. Concentrate don't celebrate.
Had to work. DVD'd game and I love to watch a win.
Yankees 2-0 in games played in 30 degrees temperature.
We just played the AL leading team, now we play the NL leading team.
When was the last time the Yankees and Mets played and the Mets had the better W/L record?
Pineda tonight versus the Mets.
Pineda, CC, and Eovaldi scheduled for the three game Mets series.
It's a long season. There are going to be ups and downs. Just play WIN METHOD baseball and all will be fine at the end.
The Yankees will need to bring their game this weekend. Step up and take charge. Everybody contributes.
Take another series.
Give us a stunner Pineda. Blow them away.
Two run HR by Teixeira puts Yanks up 2-0 in first.
2-0 Yanks after 1 on Tex HR.
Yanks with 4 more runs in 3rd. Elsbury solo HR, Tex a 2nd 2 run HR and Drew sac fly. Lead 6-0 after 3.
We are hitting and Pineda is dealing. Save some runs guys.
Mets manufacture a run in 6th. Yanks lead 6-1 coming to bat,
6-1 Yanks after 6.
So far so good. Pineda may be able to give us 8 innings.
6-1 after 7.
Theeeee Yankeeeeeeees Winnnn.
Final 6-1 Yanks.
Very nice win. No real wasted runs. Good hitting early and great pitching.
Good start to this series.
Very nice win. Great pitching start to finish and timely early hitting to relieve pressure.
Would just love to see CC throw a gem tomorrow.
Pineda was throwing strikes. He was dominant.
Todays another day and todays another game. One game at a time. Pitch well and hit better for the WIN.
Lets do it again. Lets take this series.
Keep the wins coming. Go get them.
Score early and shut em down CC.
1-1 after 3.
Yanks down 7-1 after 6. CC not good.
We still have 3 innings, but not optimistic.
Yanks go down 8-2. Series even.
Rubber game tomorrow on the despised 8pm Sunday night.
Eovaldi tonight for the series.
Eovaldi with back to back gems?
Keep the positive momentom going, take the Mets down and win the series.
Lets go Yankees.
Just say no to ESPN.
Beat the Mets, beat the Mets, It's time for the Yankees to beat the Mets.
Yankees take 5-2 lead after 2.
5-4 Yanks after 3. It looks like the pitchers are throwing batting practice.
Still 5-4 after 4. First inning that no one scored.
6-4 Yanks arte 5. Beltran needs to be gone. 2K's and a DP.
6-4 Yanks coming to bat in 8th. Bullpen has been sparkling.
final, Yanks take series. 6-4
Theeee Yankeeeeeeeees Winnnn.
Final 6-4.
Bullpen perfect again.
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