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Mailbag: Did the Yankees Miss their Championship Window?

Happy Tuesday, everyone. It’s a cold and dreary Tuesday several weeks into the lockout, and there really isn’t that much to talk about. I can’t really remember a time I’ve cared less about baseball than I do right now, and I think the same is true for many of us. Oh well. Not much we […]

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... arly, most fans, myself included, could close their eyes and see an emerging Yankee dynasty. It was hard not to! They core of the team looked to be ascendant su ...

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2022 Yankees Top Prospects List Roundup

by: Derek — Views from 314 Ft. 20 Jan

The 2022 Yankees top prospects lists are out at various major publications. How does the organization's farm system look?

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... t, only one publication (BP) really pushed him up the board. He ranks as the Yankees’ third-best prospect at BP, behind Volpe and Peraza. That makes him the orga ...

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VF314 Live Chat – 1/19/2022

by: Derek — Views from 314 Ft. 19 Jan

Embed from Getty Images It’s Wednesday, so let’s chat. There is no hot stove to speak of, there appears to be little to no progress on a new CBA, and the owners’ offer last week essentially quashed any hope for a timely spring training. Great fodder for a chat, huh? Let’s talk Yankees baseball...

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... hope for a timely spring training. Great fodder for a chat, huh? Let’s talk Yankees baseball anyway. Today’s chat will get underway at noon eastern. The queue i ...

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Thoughts on A-Rod’s Hall of Fame Candidacy

by: Ana Apostoleris — Views from 314 Ft. 18 Jan

Does Alex Rodriguez deserve to be a Hall of Famer? How does David Ortiz's candidacy compare to the longtime Yankee?

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... Rodriguez claimed at the time that he was “clean” during his tenure with the Yankees, the 2009 leak was unfortunately not the end of the story. In 2013, he was ...

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Mailbag: Matt Chapman at shortstop, Padres catchers

by: Derek — Views from 314 Ft. 17 Jan

This week's Yankees mailbag includes questions about Matt Chapman at shortstop and catcher trade targets from the Padres.

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... long-term value, but he would not be my preferred target of these three. The Yankees need to play the short-term game with the likes of Aaron Judge and Gerrit Co ...

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Deep Thinking

by: Matt Imbrogno — Views from 314 Ft. 16 Jan

Pitchers and catchers should be reporting about a month from now. Given where we’re at with the owner-induced lockout, I think we’ve got a snowflake’s chance in Hell–let alone a snowball’s–of that actually happening. But I’ll take an optimistic (perhaps too optimistic) look forward now to a time...

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... at, though. Regardless, there will be someone playing shortstop for the 2022 Yankees and that means that, including Torres and Urshela, the Yankees will have thr ...

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VF314 Chat – 1/12/2022

by: Derek — Views from 314 Ft. 12 Jan

Good morning, everyone. It’s chat day once again, and we’ll get our conversation underway at 12pm eastern. In the meantime, the queue is open to submit your questions ahead of time after the read more button below. There’s been very, very little for us to discuss in recent weeks, but at some point...

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Revisiting the MLBTR Archives: January 2017

by: Derek — Views from 314 Ft. 11 Jan

The offseason was winding down in January 2017, but the Yankees were setting themselves up for war with Dellin Betances.

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Fun with ZiPS

by: Matt Imbrogno — Views from 314 Ft. 9 Jan

On Thursday, Derek took a look at the Yankees’ 2022 ZiPS projections. Today, let’s do something similar and have some fun–since there’s very little fun to be had in the baseball world these days–and run these projections through an old friend: the Baseball Musings Lineup Analysis Tool. For those...