I have noticed that even most baseball folks have become a bit ashamed of the clichés circulating at this time of year. The three big ones: 1. Players claiming they “were in the best shape of their lives” (as if that should be award-worthy in an industry in which being…
Imagine a manned spacecraft is five years from Pluto and it is iffy whether it has enough fuel to complete the mission (really, stick with me). If the ship doesn’t reach the destination, it is possible that the person who will invent the technology that will make completing such a journey…
Aaron Boone is the most unsuccessful successful manager in the majors. He has been the Yankees skipper for five years. He has two first-place finishes — the only AL East titles for the organization in the past decade. Boone’s Yankees have never finished worse than second place and never missed…
Here in this little sliver of the world we are not a hostage to format. This might be 3Up, but I think there are four big-picture ways this offseason can play out for the Yankees: 1. They re-sign Aaron Judge, and then keep spending big to join the Dodgers and…
You know who is about to have a miserable month? Aaron Boone. Unless he acquired ESP from his days working at ESPN, Boone simply cannot be right on every personnel choice he faces for the playoffs. And the Yankees manager faces a remarkable number of questions about who plays where…
I want to revisit the deal that brought Edwin Diaz to the Mets as a vehicle to discuss the club’s first trade deadline with Billy Eppler as general manager. There are three items to drill down upon: 1. I am not sure if we were always this impatient as a…
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