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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«Oldest ‹Older 1001 – 1200 of 2485 Newer› Newest»1-1 after 6. Two major base running errors by Teixeira cost Yankees a run and the lead.
Oh no Tex. Get your head in the game.
Yankees get 4 in the 7th and take 5-1 lead. Tanaka wins pitchers duel.
Scherzer had to pitch his heart out to no avail as Yanks push him to @ 120 pitches and saddle him with the loss.
Betances in for the 8th.
Betances 1,2,3 8th.
Drew 2nd HR of game makes it 6-1 Yankees after 8.
With five run lead, Shreve in for the ninth. Two outs two on and Miller called in for the final out.
Theeeeeeeeeee Yankeeeeeeeeeeeeees Winnnnnnnnn.
Final 6-1 win. Tanaka brilliant again.
Seven straight wins and minimum of a split of this series.
Big win. Second season quality win.
Afternoon game today with Eovaldi starting. Lets keep moving forward.
Will we sweep three consecutive series. Heck, yes!
Mow then down Nathan.
Lets earn another win. Wins and only wins will take you to the playoffs.
No score after 2.
Yanks down 2-0 after 4 1/2.
Down 2-0 after 6. When it counts guys. Lets do it.
Eovaldi goes seven innings allowing just 2 runs, but Yankees haven't scored.
Led by Brendon Ryan in his first game of the season after coming off the DL the Yanks explode for 4 runs and lead 4-2 after 7.
Lindgren in for the 8th and gives up game tying 2 run HR.
4-4 after 8.
Wilson in for the ninth.
Wilson puts up a shutout 9th. Top of lineup for Yanks. Lets win it now.
Yanks go down 1,2,3 in ninth. afraud looks terrible.
Capuano with a 1,2,3 10th.
Yanks don't score in 10th. 4-4.
Nationals score in 11th on two out infield dribbler. 5-4 and Yanks need a run or two.
Yanks go down 5-4 in 11. Tough loss. Did not use Betances or Miller?????????
Final 5-4 loss in 11.
Wonder why Girardi did not use Betances or Miller, with the off day tomorrow????
Miller on the DL with forearm strain. Should miss at least 3 weeks. Betances fine, Giradi just gave him day off. Betances will now be the closer.
Oh no!
We shall overcome, survive and move on.
Off day to regroup and plan. Make roster moves and come together as a team. A WIN METHOD team.
Everybody play their game and everybody help the team win.
Suck it up team. It is a long season with ups and downs for every team.
One game at a time playing WIN METHOD baseball. Good pitching, timely hitting when it counts.
Pineda tonight on extended rest. Could he be stronger and even more dominant.
All Pineda needs to do is throw strikes.
Yanks lead bases with no one out in 1st, then fail miserably when it counts and fail to score. 1-0 O's after 1.
Yanks down 5-1 after 3 as Pineda throws rotten 4 run inning.
Yanks down 6-3 after 5. Pineda goes only 4 1/3. Not good at all.
Yankees getting blasted. Down 10-3 after 6.
If you have to lose, getting whooped and losing 11-3 is the best way to do it.
CC for tonight game to even series.
Can CC throw another gem. We need him right now.
Bounce back tonight to stop the skid at two.
Come on guys score some runs.
The yanks may have lost last nights game in the first inning when they failed to score with the bases loaded and no outs. WHEN, WHEN, WHEN.
Tex and McCann with RBI hits in 1st when it counts for a 2-0 Yankees lead after 1.
2-0 Yanks after 1.
afraud 2 run HR in 6th ties it at 4-4.
Yankee revamped bull pen hammered for 5 runs after game is tied at 4. Yanks down 9-4 after 7.
Third straight loss 9-4. Coming up empty as the O's are hot.
Jeters leadership and play is sorely missed. We must move forward.
Lets see if Warren can tame the O's.
Game time. Get a win.
Yanks down 2-1 after first.
2-2 after 3, but not producing when it counts.
Murphy big two out two RBI double in 5th gives Yanks 5-3 lead after 5.
Betances in for the 9th to try for the save with a 5-3 lead.
One out on infield roller.
Two out grounder to second.
Walk, one on two out tying run at plate.
K. The Yanks win.
Final 5-3 win.
Theeeeeeeeee Yankeeeeeeeeeeees Winnnnnnnnn.
Great job by the pen, really great.
We needed this win.
Warren really had to grind today, but he kept us alive and the bullpen, Shreve, Wilson, and Betances were spotless.
Up next four games with the Marlins. Two in Miami and then two at the Stadium.
Nova may be ready within a week or two. That has to help and deepen an already deep staff.
Teixeira home run 1-1 after 4.
Loss 2-1. Very sad hitting.
We dropped out of first place with the loss last night. Hate losing the close ones. No hitting by almost everyone.
It would be great if Eovaldi can give us 7 innings and a win.
Eovaldi tagged for 8, yes 8 first inning runs, and only gets 2 outs before being lifted.
We are in trouble. Do we have an amazing come back in us? Down 8-0 after 1.
Down 8-0 after 3.
Down 11-1 after 6. That is the way to lose. No cliff hanger.
Loss 12-2. Not good.
Oh well. We are missing leadership, we are missing Jeter.
Hello Miami. A 1 run and a 10 run loss.
Our turn to host the Marlins for two games weather permitting. There are storms headed in this direction. Pineda scheduled tonight.
Pineda tonight and we do need a win.
I wonder how the last nights first inning turns if Didi, who is no Jeter defensively, makes the play on the ball he bobbled. If he dies it is two out and one on. Jeter makes the play blindfolded and easily.
Yanks jump out to a quick 1-0 lead after 1.
Yanks take 2-0 after 5. afraud thrown out at home for third out. afraud is a major liability on the base paths.
Pineda gives up first hit in 7th. A HR, leads 2-1 after 7. Up to the bullpen now.
Lets get insurance runs.
Marlin runner called safe at home by umpire ruled out on TV review challenge. Betances gets Yankees out of jam in 8th. 2-1 Yanks after 8.
Betances in 9th trying for a 5 out save.
2-1 win. Betances gets the save.
Theeeeeeeee Yankeeeeeeeeeeeees Winnnnnnnnnnn.
Final Yanks win 2-1.
Still not scoring runs. Need to wake up.
Tough win last night. Replay reviews....sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
CC tonight. We need to score runs. Can't wait until Elsbury gets back.
Nova scheduled for a third rehab start this weekend and then likely added to the Yankee roster the following week.
Need to win. Only the amount of wins you earn determine your destiny and greatness.
I wonder if the team will make a trade before the deadline or not. A big one? Stop gap? Minor? Go home grown? Stand pat?
1-0 Yanks after 1.
Yanks up 1-0 in first but Beltran and Gregorius fail miserably WHEN it counts with the bases loaded.
1-0 after 3.
Yanks down 2-1 after 5. 2nd and 3rd one out in the 5th, McCann and Beltran pathetic at bats WHEN it counts and Yankees fail to score.
It's a pleasure listening to Paul Oneill, a great WIN METHOD player, doing the commentary for tonights game, talking of hitting WHEN it counts and not how many you get but WHEN you get them.
Gardner big 2 out 2 run HR in 6th ties game 3-3 after 6. WHEN WHEN WHEN
Beltran 2 run HR puts Yanks up 5-3 in 7th.
Lets go Yankees.
Yanks lead 5-3 after 7.
4 in 8th give Yanks 9-3 lead after 8. No need for Betances.
Yanks win 9-4.
Win was tougher than the score.
Split the 4 games with the Marlins.
We have the Tigers for the weekend.
Warren goes against Verlander tonight.
Hopefully the run scoring at the end of last nights game will carry over for the weekend, the entire weekend.
Would be great to take this Tiger series. Warren leads it off tonight.
Lets go guys, pound the Tigs.
afraud with 3000th hit. A home run for a 1-0 lead.
4-2 Yanks after 5 on Gardner 2 run HR.
A shut down inning from Warren would be great right now.
Yanks take 6-2 lead after 7.
Yanks up 6-2 after 7.
One more run for Yanks to lead 7-2 after 8. Warren goes 8 brilliant innings.
Theeeeeeee Yankeeeeeeeeeeeeees Winnnnnnnnn.
Final 7-2 win.
Warren was outstanding. As solid a starter as we have.
3 straight wins now.
Right now when Tanaka, Pineda or Warren start I expect the Yankees to win. And when Eovaldi or Sabathia start I think it is a 50-50 chance they win. That makes for a playoff team in my view.
Will Eovaldi bounce back after his last career worst outing?
Eovaldi tonight. Hope the bats score.
Lets go Yankees.
Eovaldi has to redeem himself or he may be on the outside looking in.
The AL East teams that a month ago were maligned by the no nothing talking head pundits and highly ignorant baseball forum twits are again showing the world the AL East will have to be reckoned with.
Yankees take 3-0 lead after 2.
Yankees pounding Tigers. Lead 8-0 after 3. A laugher.
Come on guys, give it a break and save some runs for WHEN they are needed. Scoring tons of meaningless runs tonight.
Eovaldi redeemed so far with 5 scoreless innings.
All Yankee after five. Scoring in all five innings. Lead 13-0.
14-3 final. 4 straight wins.
We take this series and go for the sweep tomorrow with Tanaka.
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppp. Tanaka with the broom.
Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there. Lets celebrate with another Yankee win today.
Tanaka tagged for 2 2 run home runs in 1st inning. the 2nd 2 runs unearned because of another Gregorius error. Oh my god, how much Jeters great defense is missed.
Tanaka gives up 2 more runs in 2nd and Yanks come back with 2. Down 6-2 after 2. We could use some of those meaningless runs from last night.
Turn around. Yankees down 11-2.
Yankee rookies Burawa and DePaula rudely welcomed to the majors. No where to go now but up.
Final 12-4 loss. Tanaka with a clunker.
Phillies in for three games starting tonight. Pineda goes.
It would be good to take this series before hitting the road, to Texas and then the land of losers left coast.
Bring the lumber guys. Make it an easy one.
Nova to start Wednesday against Phillies.
afraud again fails to get runner in from 3rd with no outs. Waves hopelessly at a ball in the dirt.
McCann sac fly gets run in and Beltran double another run. 2-1 Yanks after 1.
Pineda not sharp and struggling. Down 4-2 mid third.
Gardner 3 run HR/ Yanks down 8-5 after 4. COMEBACK
Yanks down 10-5 after 6.
Final. Loss 11-8.
Score 8 and lose. Another give away. Pineda needs to get his head in every game, every inning, every at bat.
We shouldn't lose when we score 8 runs. Not a good effort from Pineda. Right from the 1st inning he looked not good.
Still just one game out of first place.
Sabathia tonight to try to end two game losing streak.
We may be looking at rain issues tonight.
CC in stopper role again.
Rain delay.
2-0 Yanks after 2. Jones HR.
CC blows lead again in 4th. League leading 10th time.
Sabathia may be toast. 6 runs in 4 innings leaves Yanks down 6-3 after 4.
Yanks even game at 6-6 after 5 innings.
6-6 after 7. Worst is two innings in a row Yanks don't score runner from third with less than 2 outs. It is always WHEN.
Betances fails in 9th.
Final a horrid 11-6 loss.
Where has the pitching gone? Warren the most consistent and best pitcher right now?
Nova goes today in first MLB start after TJ surgery. Nova will try to stop a three game losing skid.
After Tanaka, Pineda, and Sabathia, maybe Nova can give us a well pitched game.
Welcome back Ivan.
Yankees up 2-0 after 2.
Yanks lead 5-0 after 4.
So far so good for Nova thru 4.
Nova goes 6 2/3 innings of 0 run 3 hit ball in a brilliant outing after 14 month layoff.
10-0 after 7.
A very nice win today. More important Novas outstanding effort and result.
What a major lift Nova would make. Very strong and solid.
Seven game road trip starting with 4 at Houston and 3 at Anaheim.
Houston for four games starting tonight. Warren on the mound.
Lets go Yankees.
7 game western trip. 4-3 is good.
Give us another great outing Adam.
Seven game road trip, play one game at a time and win one game at a time.
Lets take game one.
Yanks down 1-0 after 3.
Yanks down 2-0 after 5. Bats are horrid. afraud with 3Ks.
Down 3-0 after 7. No threat tonight in any inning with the bats.
Down 4-0 in the 9th and 2 outs, the Yankees load the bases and the tying room is at bat. All after 8 innings of futility. Ground out ends it.
Final 4-0 loss.
Houston delivered WHEN it counted and won, the Yankees did not and lost. Houston run, double, sac fly, sac fly, for run. Houston run, single, stolen base, single with two out for run.
Eovaldi tonight to try to even series.
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