Tag Archives: Tyler Austin

The Yankee Beat: prospect interviews, Logan, and Granderson

Since the Yankees 10 game winning streak, they have dropped three games in a row and the rotation that carried them for the past month is suddenly struggling. Here is the recap and graph from last night. Here is what the Yankees blogosphere is talking about recently. • Pinstripe Alley got a chance to interview both Mason ...

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Bernie Williams to manage Future Games

The Future Games have become the best part of the All-Star break and they're stepping it up this year with some great coaches, one of whom happens to be a former Yankee - Bernie Williams and George Brett. Brett will manage the United States team while Bernie will manage the Worlds team. There are no Yankees ...

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How to raise a prospect

*Feb 15 - 00:05*

There are many out there who question the Yankees methods in their advancement, instruction, and mentoring of prospects as they advance through the farm system. A few months ago, I examined the art of developing starting pitchers, and how the Yankees matched up with other teams. As it turned out, they are one of the ...

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The Yankee beat: bases loaded, Austin, and bad umpires

The Yankees got Angel'ed last night as Dan Haren got help from the umpires and some great defense to stifle their bats and Andy Pettitte got no help from Albert Pujols, who put an exclamation point on his only bad inning, en route to an easy 5-1 Angels victory. Here is the recap and graph. Here is what ...

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The Yankee beat: Austin, Cano, and optimism

Phelps made his first start of his major league career, but the Yankees offense didn't show up to see it as they lost to Kansas City 4-3 Thursday night. Here is our recap. Here is what the Yankees blogosphere was talking about today. It's About The Money declares Tyler Austin as the April prospect of the month ...

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BBDP April 14th: Nuding is the new Tebowing

BBDP MVP: Zachary Nuding Just kidding, but that would be entertaining wouldn't it? Nuding is a lesser known pitcher in High-A Tampa with great stuff. He was originally brought in as a reliever, but his repertoire was so good the coaches felt they had to give him a shot in the rotation. Last year he had ...

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BBDP April 7, 2012: Trenton Thunders their way to seven homeruns

BBDP MVP: Rob "R-Ly" LyerTriple-A Empire State L 0-4 vs Syracus. L: Manny Banuelos Francisco Cervelli: 0/4, K (.000). It's been a while since Cevelli has had an o-for streak this bad. Brandon Laird: 0/4, K Colin Curtis: 1/4 Manny Baneulos: 3.1 IP, 11 H, 4 ER, BB, 2 K, HR (10.8 ERA). Tough outing. Trenton: W 11-2 vs New ...

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Some Yankees minor league notes

Yesterday was an off-day in the Yankees big league camp so Chad Jennings of the Journal News headed over to the minor league complex yesterday and gave us a solid update. Here are some of the highlights. Tyler Austin will play right field, not 1st or 3rd base like last year, for Staten Island this year. Mason ...

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Yankees Top 20 Prospects from John Sickels

John Sickels of SB Nation actually does one of my favorite prospect rankings only because he grades the prospects on an A/B/C scale and gives a brief for each player as well. Check his website for what the grades mean. These are preliminary rankings that he does before the 2012 Baseball Prospect Book comes out. Take a ...

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Yankees Fans Should Pay Attention to Mason Williams

Baseball America published their list of the Top 20 Prospects in the New York-Penn League this season and the Yankees are featured prominently on the list. Center fielder Mason Williams is on the top of the list that features a total of five Yankee farmhands. Williams is no. 1, Cito Culver, SS, is no. 6, ...

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