Author Archives: Rob Abruzzese

Robertson not worried about ribcage injury

On Monday night when the Yankees turned to a reliever to close out the game in the 9th inning they turned to Rafael Soriano and not David Robertson. No, the Yankees haven't changed their minds and decided to go with Soriano as the closer. Instead it was a ribcage injury that D-Rob sustained on Friday ...

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Nova and 2 others leave Yankees game with injuries

The Yankees won yesterday, but that didn't necessarily make it a good night as the talk after the game was all about injuries to Ivan Nova, Raul Ibanez, and Clay Rapada. The most significant injury was to Nova, who left the game after he injured his ankle fielding a ground ball in the 6th. They are ...

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The Yankee beat: Montero, the unappreciated, and RISP

Ivan Nova didn't have good stuff tonight against the Orioles, but luckily for him the Yankees 3-4-5 hitters finally did. Robinson Cano, Alex Rodriguez, and Mark Teixeira combined to go 7-for-14 as they won 8-5. Here is the recap and graph. Here is what the Yankees blogosphere has been discussing. The Yankee Analysts says that the Yankees ...

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Weekly game thread: May 14 – May 20

The Yankees won back-to-back series against the Rays and Mariners last week behind a rotational ERA of 1.99 which was the best in baseball. Mark Teixeira has still not come around, but Robinson Cano hit .500 last week and Alex Rodriguez .333. The Yankees have an odd week coming up with two, two-game series on the ...

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Details of Pettitte’s $2.5M contract

Andy Pettitte reportedly signed a one-year $2.5 million minor league deal during the offseason. Those deals are typically pro-rated meaning that since he didn't start the season with the Yankees, Pettitte wouldn't receive the full $2.5 mil. That isn't the case those as the contract is worded in such a way that he'll receive the ...

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Yankee rotation rebounding in May

The Yankees rotation was brutal in April as it posted a 5.80 ERA, the second worst in all of the American League, but it has rebounded nicely in the month of May and now has the second best ERA in the AL at 3.21 - a swing of more than two and a half runs ...

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Jeter continues to climb all-time hit list

Derek Jeter's bat might have cooled off a bit recently, he's only getting one or two hits a game instead of three or four, but that hasn't kept him from passing some impressive names on the all-time hits list over the weekend. Jeter passed Tony Gwynn, who has 3,141 hits, on Saturday and then tied Robin ...

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Yankees demote Cody Eppley to make room for Pettitte

In order to make room for Andy Pettitte on the active roster, the Yankees demoted right handed reliever Cody Eppley to Triple-A and placed Mariano Rivera on the 60-day disabled list. Eppley is a 26-year-old that the Yankees nabbed off waivers from the Texas Rangers to replace George Kontos who went to San Francisco in the ...

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Yankees will not drop Teixeira in lineup

Mark Teixeira is becoming quite the rally killer for the Yankees this season with his .223 average, .275 OBP, and .369 slugging, but the Yankees manager Joe Girardi said after the game that he refused to drop him lower in the lineup than 5th. “I’m going to leave him there,” Girardi told Josh Thomson of the ...

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Andy Pettitte’s first start back is a C+

Andy Pettitte returned to the mound yesterday as he threw 94 pitches over 6.1 innings and allowed four earned runs on seven hits, three walks, and two strikeouts. It wasn't a great outing, but very solid as he was able to maintain his velocity and use all of his pitches to varying degrees of success. ...

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