The Yankees have made quite a few moves during June and as the end of the month approaches I’ll try to summarise them here.
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The New York Yankees – The Pitchers in May
The Yankees continued to need to re-jig their starting rotation and still had problems filling the last spot or two in their bullpen. Add this to their on-going struggles with the bat and this was always going to be a difficult month and that’s just how it proved.
The New York Yankees – The Batters in May
The Yankees didn’t have the month they’d dreamed of in May but given their extensive injuries (particular to starting pitchers) and continuing power hitting woes, it was about as good as it could have been. They came out of the month with a .500 record (14 wins, 14 losses) which kept them in contention for the wild card whilst letting Toronto open up a lead at the head of the American League East.
The New York Yankees in May – Update 3
More injury problems for the Yankees. Carlos Beltran, who had been listed as day-to-day, went to the 15-day disabled list.
The New York Yankees in May – Update 2
The Yankees lost Shawn Kelley to the disabled list, to add to their pitching woes. He is suffering with stiffness in his back and will be unavailable until the 28th of May at the earliest.
The New York Yankees In May – Update
They do say that bad luck comes in threes and the Yankees have now lost three of their starting pitchers for the next few weeks.
The New York Yankees – The Pitchers in April
Turning to the second part of our April survey, we find that the success of the pitching might have turned on a necessity of Tommy John surgery and a large glob of pine tar on someone’s neck………
The New York Yankees – The Batters in April
Well, here we are a month into the new baseball season and time to begin our run of monthly surveys of the New York Yankees. We will be taking a slightly different approach this season. Anyway here goes with the batters and their performance in April:
Yankees in April – Update 3
I’m not really planning on daily updates in this column but the Yankees are going through quite a few changes at the moment.
Yankees in April – Update 2
I’m writing this on Wednesday morning, April 8th, as the Yankees have just taken possession of the lead in the American League East, for the first time this season, following their win in their home opener against the Baltimore Orioles.