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The New York Yankees – The Batters in June

Posted on July 8, 2014 by twilightdawning

The Yankees endured a miserable month in June with a win/loss line of 12-15 and so many batters were below or just above the Mendoza line that it was sometimes difficult to know where their next win was coming from. Even then though they sometimes hit a hot streak and managed to keep in contention. In a close American League East, it is difficult to know what might happen, particularly if they can come up with a couple of key trades prior to the deadline.

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The New York Yankees In May – Update

Posted on May 13, 2014 by twilightdawning

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.

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The New York Yankees – The Pitchers in April

Posted on May 11, 2014 by twilightdawning

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………

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The New York Yankees – The Batters in April

Posted on May 9, 2014 by twilightdawning

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:

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Yankees in April – Update 2

Posted on April 9, 2014 by twilightdawning

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.

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Yankees In April – Update 1

Posted on April 8, 2014 by twilightdawning

There are 3 changes to jersey numbers on the major league squad from those that were worn in Spring Training. The other numbers can be seen on the March updates.

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What’s coming up in 2014?

Posted on January 18, 2014 by twilightdawning

Thank you to everyone who visits and supports this site. We now get more visitors per day than ever before. We get twice as many visitors per day just reading old stuff as we used to get on the old site on a day when a new article went up.

So a couple of weeks into the New Year, what seems to be likely to appear here in 2014 and what else will I be involved in?

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Yankees of 2013 – Part Four – The Current Roster – The Pitchers

Posted on December 31, 2013 by twilightdawning

And then to the fourth and final part of this survey with our overview of the men who might take the mound for the Yankees in 2014. Again, some old favourites, some trying to enhance their reputation and some new arrivals………

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Yankees of 2013 – Part Three – The Current Roster – The Batters

Posted on December 30, 2013 by twilightdawning

And so we come to the third part of our survey and the offensive players who are currently on the 40-man roster……. those who have stayed, those who have arrived and those we might meet for the first time:

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The Yankees in September – Part Two – On the Mound

Posted on October 27, 2013 by twilightdawning

The Yankees depended a lot upon their bullpen in 2013. One of the things that was surprising in September was that those who had performed so well until then began to fall apart but, thankfully, a new group of relief pitchers came up from the minors to take up the slack. Let’s see who benefitted from the roster expansion and who needed to be bailed out…..

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