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A.J. Burnett and the Baseball Media’s Misguided Optimism
March 10, 2011
One of the worst things baseball analysts so consistently do is blur the line between correlation and causation. The Yankees went nine years without a championship? Blame Alex Rodriguez. The Angels ...MLB Trade Ideas: Barry Zito and 10 Pitchers the New York Yankees Could Pursue
March 3, 2011
According to New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman, the Bombers' search for rotation help is being impaired by a lack of decent options."Nobody's available," he said this week. "Nobody of ...2011 MLB Preview: Jose Bautista and the 20 Biggest Questions Facing the AL East
January 18, 2011
The American League East is the highest profile division in baseball. Home to both the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, it contains two of the league's biggest spenders, ...Derek Jeter Fiasco: 10 Reasons Why New York Yankees Can Let Their Captain Walk
December 1, 2010
Over the course of the 2010 MLB season, when the conversation turned to the upcoming free agent market, little attention was paid to Derek Jeter.The fates of Carl Crawford and ...Derek Jeter’s Gold Glove and the Meaning of Good Defense: To Err Is Human
November 11, 2010
When Derek Jeter was announced as the AL Gold Glove winner at shortstop Tuesday afternoon, I hit the roof. Many people had similar reactions to the article I wrote in ...Damn Yankees: The Pure Insanity of Derek Jeter’s Gold Glove
November 10, 2010
The national media’s love affair with the New York Yankees knows no bounds. They get the headlines, they get the national broadcasts, and they get the end-of-season awards. This last ...MLB Awards 2010: B/R’s AL Relief Man of the Year: Tampa Bay Rays’ Rafael Soriano
November 3, 2010
Every year, managers, coaches and writers from around Major League Baseball award honors and trophies to the players—and every year, they screw up.So Bleacher Report's Featured Columnists decided to do ...MLB Playoff Predictions: The 15 Biggest Questions Facing Playoff Teams
October 5, 2010
You can spend all season waiting for the playoffs. You can design a roster around winning a seven-game series. You can run simulations and statistical analysis until you're blue in ...2010 MLB Playoffs: Ranking the Top 25 Postseason Careers in MLB History
September 30, 2010
Say what you want about the problems with MLB's current playoff system. You can bemoan the addition of the Wild Card, or whine about how home field advantage for the ...Empire State of 599: Why A-Rod’s Chase for 600 Didn’t Cause Yankees’ Skid
August 6, 2010
There’s nothing wrong with making unquantifiable excuses when your favorite team isn’t playing well—it’s only human. If the whole roster seems a little off, it must be residual jetlag from that ...Yankee Tickets
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