Author Archives: Matt Imbrogno

My Letter to Lenny Neslin

Our own Lenny Neslin just wrote a letter to Yankees GM Brian Cashman. This is my response to that letter. Lenny’s words are in bold face, mine are in regular type. When you watched Joba pitch from your beautiful box behind home plate, did you notice how Chamberlain through 92 MPH as a starter and hit 98 ...

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Yankees 2010 Lineup Projections

I did this at my site last year, so I thought I’d bust it out again. What I’m going to be doing is punching in some numbers into the lineup analysis tool from baseballmusings.com. The numbers I’m going to be using are the 2010 CHONE Projections. I’m using them because RLYW’s CAIRO projections for ...

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Who Does Make Sense for the Yankees?

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After two different posts about why certain players don’t make sense for and don’t fit on the 2010 Yankees, I thought I’d tackle the people I do think make sense for the Yankees moving forward. First, is Mike Cameron. I’ve already touched on this scenario so I’ll just do some quick hits as to why Cameron ...

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Why They Don’t Fit, Part Two

On Tuesday, Rob wrote an article about some buy low starting pitchers the Yankees could take a look at. Being the absolute grouch that I am, I thought I’d say (again) why so-and-so doesn’t fit for the Yankees. Rich Harden is a solid pitcher. He has a career 3.39 ERA, which comes in as a 131 ...

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Why So-and-So Doesn’t Make Sense for the Yankees

The MLB Hot Stove League is still in its “Spring Training” phase, so to speak, and it has not heated up yet. However, that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been speculation about players coming to the Yankees. Hell, there’s always speculation about players coming to the Yankees. Instead of looking at why certain players make sense ...

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Some Free Agent DH Alternatives

Recently, I ran down a possible scenario for the Yankees’ outfield. Now, I’m gonna run down some DH alternatives, if neither Johnny Damon nor Hideki Matsui return to the team. The first possibility (only because the list of free agents I’m looking at is in position/alphabetical order) is Russell Branyan. “Russell the Muscle” is coming off ...

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Season in Reveiw: Brett Gardner

I haven’t done one of these in a while, so I thought I’d continue with our season in review series, and focus on everyone’s favorite “scrappy” outfielder, Brett Gardner. Coming in to 2009, Gardner won the starting centerfielder’s job over incumbent Melky Cabrera. However, this decision was eventually reversed by manager Joe Girardi after Gardner got ...

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Reflection After a Week

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A week ago tonight, the Yankees beat the Phillies 7-3 to win their 27th World Series Championship and their first since beating the Mets four games to one back in 2000. For fans of most teams, a nine year gap between championships would not be seen as too big a deal. But, as a Yankee ...

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Running Down a Possible Free Agent Scenario

In the coming weeks, the Yankees will have a lot of decisions to make. As Rob discussed last night, the Yankees have seven free agents to be. For this article, I will be focusing on two of them: Hideki Matsui and Johnny Damon. First let me say this: we as fans, and the front office should ...

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Number 27!

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