The New York Yankees – The Batters in June

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 – 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.

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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.

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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:

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The Yankees in March – Part One

(up to and including 28th March)

The Yankees have had a good spring training, carrying a 17-12 record into the last few days before the regular season started. In fact, because of the strong performances many of the roster issues sorted themselves and there were few injury concerns to require the roster to be patched.

Here’s a survey of the players who made it through and how they performed in the springtime:

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

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

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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