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  1. jon abbey

    4/2: Cortes Jr. vs. Gallen

    Game 2 in ARI features NY's Opening Day pitcher Nestor Cortes Jr. against ARI's ace Zac Gallen. Both pitched once already, both went five innings, Gallen threw 90 pitches while his team was scoring 16 runs and Cortes Jr. got hit early but settled down to get 12 of the final 13 guys he faced...
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    4/1: Gil vs. Nelson

    NY continues their opening week road trip with three at NL champs ARI. Interestingly, ARI was another team (along with HOU) who NY beat in a series down the stretch last year, the ARI series was the final week of the regular season before ARI went on their impressive postseason run. NY is now...
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    3/31: Schmidt vs. France

    2 28 year old RHP in the finale of this four game set, Clarke Schmidt vs. JP France. 2 PM EST on YES. If I told you that Clarke Schmidt made all 32 starts last year, you probably wouldn't believe me, but he did. He worked on his arsenal this winter and hopes are high for him to keep improving...
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    NY regular season 2024

    A general thread so that we can have a more ongoing discussion than in game threads... Bad news on DJ LeMahieu today, a non-displaced fracture in his foot, reexamined in a few weeks. But even with that, NY looks a lot better set in his absence in the infield than they did a week ago, before...
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    3/30: Stroman vs. Brown

    Game 3 of 4 in Houston, this one is on Fox at 7:15 EST. HOU has only scored one run in the last 16 innings, Marcus Stroman will try to continue that drought today in his Yankee debut. Stroman has only faced Altuve, Abreu and Bregman among HOU hitters, Bregman is 0-11. Most of the Yankees have...
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    3/29: Rodon vs. Javier

    Cristian Javier has absolutely owned the Yankees in his short career, the current set of Yankee hitters are just 10-73 against him in his career, for a whopping .492 OPS. Judge is 0-12 with 2 walks and 7 Ks, yikes. Austin Wells should definitely start this one, Berti probably too even though...
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    3/28: Juan Soto Is A Yankee

    I'm a big fan of how Cashman has positioned the Yankees as of now, a bunch of hitters potentially in their walk year and extra motivated to perform, and a bunch of very exciting kids ready to step in in the near future. The pitching staff is maybe a bit thin in terms of depth, but I think that...
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    NY 26 man roster 2024

    Less than two weeks left, most jobs have been set and safe the whole spring, assuming they stay healthy of course. The fringe spots are part prediction and part what I hope for, heh. C-Wells/Trevino 1B-Rizzo 2B-Torres SS-Volpe 3B-LeMahieu LF-Verdugo/Stanton CF-Judge/Grisham RF-Soto/Judge...
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    Following Former Yankees 2024

    New thread for a new year... I count 13 former Yankee prospects on MLBTR's list of guys who are out of options, so have to make the team, be put on the IL, or released. 3 of those 13 are the guys taken in this winter's rule 5 (Spence, Coleman, Sauer), but a lot of familiar names on this list...
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    Rolling 2024 NY Spring Training Game Thread

    First game tomorrow! View: https://twitter.com/chriskirschner/status/1761104598301802496?s=46&t=0GHHaPVUX26Io0V2HIcS0g
  11. jon abbey

    NY spring training 2024

    Pitchers and catchers isn't for another week, but I think NY's 40 man is pretty set for now after the Ferguson move this week. The first big thing to watch after the 14th is that is the date that you can clear 40 man spots by putting guys onto the 60 day IL game, then they miss the first 60...
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    Who's Ineligible For All-NBA?

    I thought this might be fun to keep an eye on as the season progresses... So there's a new rule this year that players have to play in at least 65 games to be eligible for All-NBA. So for instance Joel Embiid has missed 8 games so far, he can only miss a max of 9 more this season to stay...
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    NY minor league prospect news (2024 edition)

    Gonna kick off a new thread with the new Fangraphs NY prospect list posted today, a fascinating list I need to dig into more. Fangraphs hasn't been updating prospect lists much recently, I believe this is the first new one in a year. Generally anyone rated as a 50 or above is in their top 100...
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    NY bullpen 2024

    I think Cashman will still probably add here but I wanted to get a sense of where they stood, with some comings and goings already this winter. Age, options remaining: MLB as of now: Luis Gil (R, 25, 1) (long guy) Nick Ramirez (L, 34, 1) Scott Effross (R, 30, 3) Victor Gonzalez (L, 28, 0) Ian...
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    NY lineup 2024

    Took an initial run at this this afternoon, very different from others I’ve seen so far. Against RHP: 1. Verdugo LF (L) 2. Judge CF (R) 3. Soto RF (L) 4. Torres 2B (R) 5. Rizzo 1B (L) 6. Stanton DH (R) 7. LeMahieu 3B (R) 8. Wells C (L) 9. Volpe SS (R) Against LHP: 1. LeMahieu 3B (R) 2. Judge...
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    Fitts, Weissert, and Judice. What do the Sox Have Here?

    I'm watching the Knicks but Fitts is good. Weissert has crazy stuff if he can throw strikes and the other kid is young and I don't know him really.
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    Winter Meetings (Sox-specific)

    It's been requested that we start a new thread for the winter meetings, and hopefully this one will be closer to the standards we ideally try to maintain on the main board. Thanks in advance.
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    How Many Of These FA Pitchers Will Earn Their Upcoming Contracts?

    OK, a simple poll here: I'm leaving out Ohtani as he is a unicorn and Yamamoto as he is much younger than the others, and I'm curious to know of these five SPs: Aaron Nola Blake Snell Jordan Montgomery Sonny Gray Eduardo Rodriguez (I don't think officially opted out yet but for the purposes of...
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    2023 MLB Postseason Predictions

    TB over TEX 2-0 TOR over MIN 2-0 (I wanted to go TOR 2-1 but former Twin Jose Berrios is pitching game 2 so it seems appropriate he hands MIN their 20th straight postseason loss) MIL over ARI 2-0 (MIL will miss Woodruff in the next round but ARI isn't hitting at all) PHI over MIA 2-0 BAL over...
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    October MLB News

    View: https://twitter.com/timbhealey/status/1708606305798107338?s=46&t=0GHHaPVUX26Io0V2HIcS0g
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