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Hal a winner? Time to get Tanaka

And if the Yanks don’t, their fans won’t. Hal has said he will only approve a payroll below the $189 million luxury-tax threshold — and the tens upon tens of millions in savings such a budget would bring — if he was confident it would still allow him to field a championship-level team. But as […]

Yanks can take lickin’, keep on tickin’

They are 5-4 since he returned to the roster after missing nearly three months with a broken right forearm suffered when he was hit by a pitch in the first at-bat of spring training. The point is not that the Yankees are a better team without Granderson than they are with him; that is certainly […]

Strange But True Postseason Feats of 2015

The team that lost the World Series was the team that always seemed to be winning. … Whereas the team that won the World Series was the team that apparently decided holding a lead before the eighth inning was overrated. … Not to mention … The most dominant slugger of the 2015 postseason was a […]

Yasiel Puig among best of what’s left among unsigned MLB free agents

Yasiel Puig, RF 2019: .267/.327/.458, 24 HR, 84 RBI, 19 SB, 1.4 WAR Bottom 5 in RF WAR projection (via FanGraphs): Mariners, Tigers, Cardinals, Padres, Marlins Puig would be at least a minor upgrade for several teams beyond those listed above, including the Indians, the team he finished last year with after a midseason trade […]

All the ways MLB teams could use new 26th man on the roster

The most intriguing MLB rule change, however, is the change from a 25-man roster through Aug. 31 to 26 players. I’ve long advocated for a change in roster size, an acknowledgement that pitcher usage — and the number of pitchers rostered — has changed dramatically in the last two-plus decades. For example, in 1977, six […]

Hyun-Jin Ryu introduced, says Jays’ persistence ‘why I’m here’

That’s the view agent Scott Boras has of the deal that brought the Korean left-hander north of the border. Ryu agreed to join the Jays last weekend, with sources telling ESPN’s Jeff Passan that the deal was for four years and $80 million. Ryu then flew in from Korea for an introductory news conference Friday, […]

The best and worst free-agent signing of the decade for all 30 MLB teams

What we can do is check back on the 2010s on how free agency worked — or didn’t work — for all 30 franchises. For each team we’ll list the total dollars committed in free agency (starting with new contracts for the 2010 season, not including money carried over from previous deals), where they ranked […]