Yankee pitchers had a post-season ERA of 2.27 against two of the best hitting teams in the game. I can only imagine what that ERA would be if Ottovino had pitched as well as he has normally.

General manager Brian Cashman might be making decisions for the New York Yankees at the executive level, but the influence of Hal Steinbrenner cannot be overlooked. The owner of the Bronx Bombers stated that the team doesn’t need to add to their starting pitching rotation with Luis Severino and Jordan Montgomery returning in featured roles next season.

“For the most part, I think our starting pitching was good this year,’’ Steinbrenner said. “Even missing [Luis] Severino and [Jordan] Montgomery [for most or all of the season due to injuries].”

He didn’t say they aren’t going to sign a Free Agent pitcher. Why are people saying this? You’re dealing with Scott Boras on Cole, Strasburg and Rendon.. it’s been suggested Zack Wheeler might be an option. 

Paxton 

Severino

Tanaka 

Happ 

German?

Montgomery

Green 

Garcia 

King 

Seven #Yankees have officially become free agents: Dellin Betances, Brett Gardner, Cory Gearrin, Didi Gregorius, Cameron Maybin, Austin Romine & CC Sabathia. (Yes, CC is retired)

The Yankees did not make a qualifying offer to Didi Gregorius. 

Aroldis Chapman will not opt out of his deal with the Yankees, who added another year at $18M to his current contract, a source confirmed. So the closer is now signed through 2022 for a total of $48M. 

DJLM 2B

Judge RF

Torres SS

Stanton DH

Sanchez C

Gardner CF

Voit 1B

Urshela 3B

Tauchman LF

Steamer Projections has Gary Sanchez leading all catchers in SLG, OPS and wRC+ in 2020.

David Cone interviewed for the Yankee pitching coach job last week

Cone met with Cashman, Boone and other members of the Yankees baseball operations department for several hours. Called it an “interesting” process and was glad he had the chance to do it. Said he’s not sure where things will go from here.

2019 AL MVP

Top 3 (alphabetically)

Alex Bregman, Astros

Marcus Semien, A’s

Mike Trout, Angels

Winner announced Nov. 14. Voting concluded before postseason

No DJ is BS 

Hall of Fame announces candidates to be considered by the Modern Era Committee in December:

Tommy John started 700 games over the course of a 26-year career in the majors. He placed 2nd in Cy Young voting twice and is 53rd all-time in WAR and 26th in Ws

Don Mattingly won the batting title in 1984 and MVP in 1985, runner up in 86. He's 7th in #Yankees history in hits and 10th in RBIs Best player in the game 85-89

Thurman Munson is the only Yankee to win both Rookie of the Year (1970) and MVP (1976) with the club. He also won two World Series titles

Dwight Evans

Steve Garvey

Dale Murphy

Dave Parker

Ted Simmons

Lou Whitaker

Marvin Miller

All but Evans, Munson & Whitaker were on the '17 ballot

2020 Ballot 

Derek Jeter (1st):

.310/.377/.440

72.4 rWAR | 73.0 fWAR

115 OPS+

119 wRC+

.360 wOBA

5 Gold Gloves (-243.3 DRS)