Teixeira MRI Update, Babe Ruth Pitching In Pinstripes, And Jeter’s Gift Baskets

By On September 10, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Link Dump

No Yankee game tonight, but I do have some links.

 Jeff Zimmerman takes a look at Mark Teixeira’s famous slide from Saturday night. He believes it would have been faster for him to just keep running to firstbase, but that’s hard to ask of a player with calf issues. In other Teixeira news, [...]

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After A Mechanical Change, Joba Looks Unstoppable

By On September 10, 2012 · 3 Comments · In PitchFX, Player Analysis

It’s hard to believe that Joba Chamberlain returned to this team over a month ago. When he came up on August 1st, things didn’t go too well. He surrendered a homerun immediately to JJ Hardy. In fact, the whole month of August didn’t bode well for the reliever, but through a key mechanical [...]

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Don’t look now, but Phil Hughes isn’t half bad

By On September 10, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Player Analysis

If it seems like Phil Hughes has been on the cusp of breaking out for years now, that’s because he has. Hughes has been a hot Yankee commodity since 2006. Over that time we’ve seen flashes of brilliance from Hughes, overshadowed by bad-to-mediocre pitching. 2010 is often cited as the one season Phil [...]

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Is CC Sabathia Injured?

By On September 10, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Musings, PitchFX, Player Analysis

Following the game on Saturday, Joel Sherman wanted to know the answer to this question so badly that he forgot his manners. You can watch the exchange here. The series of questioning, and what I thought was personally an inappropriate tone from Sherman, resulted in a heated confrontation in Girardi’s office later that [...]

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