While the New York Yankees have many questions to answer during this winter, there is one internal problem that they have to try to figure out and it involves their pitching. Across the league, teams have put their trust in different young pitchers....
To wrap up the Pinstriped Prospects series on what went wrong during the 2020 season, it’s fitting to do so by looking at some of the bright spots. While the Yankees ultimately fell short of their Championship goal, they still had plenty of...
One of the most exhausted and overused tropes in sports analysis is the idea that some teams and players are built to win in the playoffs and others aren’t. And at this point, it’s almost as common to assert the contrary: that research has proven...
It may feel like the Yankees’ season was slow and painful from the very beginning. In reality that wasn’t the case at all. If you recall, the Yankees started the 2020 season 8-1. Yes, believe it or not, there was a point where it felt like the...
Heading into last offseason, the general sentiment among Yankee fans was that the team’s major area of need was pitching – specifically, starting pitching. In the six-game ALCS against powerhouse Houston, the team’s lack of depth was horribly exposed.
For the fourth straight season, Yankees’ fans have been handed the same old story. “We’re close.” And the reality of it is, that’s true. The Yankees are close, but Yankees fans don’t care about close. I think fans cared about close in 2017 and 2018....
On this week’s episode of the Pinstriped Prospects Podcast, Ricky Keeler, James O’Connell, and Alexis Farinacci look back at the New York Yankees’ Game 5 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays in the ALDS. What went wrong and what could have been prevented?...
