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Yankees Select Cade Winquest in Rule 5
The Yankees didn’t lose a prospect in the Major League phase of the Rule 5 draft. This is the second consecutive year that they have not lost anyone. You can all stop screaming from the rooftops over how stupid it is to leave Low-A pitchers exposed. They did make a rare choice, their first one […]
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Other off-season pieces: 12/5/25 12/2/25 11/28/25 11/25/25 11/18/25 11/15/25 11/7/25 10/30/25 Japanese Free Agents Rule 5 Primer 1. Don Mattingly falls short of the Hall of Fame My opinion remains unchanged: He is my favorite player. I don’t think he quite reaches the level of a Hall of Famer. Jeff Kent was elected and will be […]
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1. Cam Schlittler is working on an off-speed pitch Pitchers always need to evolve. 82.7% of Schlittler’s 2025 pitches were a type of fastball (4-seamer, cutter, sinker), and the Pitch Value metric on Fangraphs graded his slider and curve as negative pitches. Can you get away with a fastball-heavy arsenal? Certainly. Bryan Woo, for example, used […]
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Other off-season pieces: 11/28/25 11/25/25 11/18/25 11/15/25 11/7/25 10/30/25 Japanese Free Agents Rule 5 Primer 1. Devin Williams to the Mets (3 years/$50M) Hours after securing a casino deal, Steve Cohen placed his first big bet by throwing a ton of money at a reliever coming off an uneven season. I have written many times, […]
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Other off-season pieces: 11/25/25 11/18/25 11/15/25 11/7/25 10/30/25 Japanese Free Agents Rule 5 Primer 1. Yankees re-sign Michael Arias You know things are a little slow when this is my opening note. The Yankees didn’t tender Arias a contract last Friday, but decided to bring him back on a minor league deal. This isn’t uncommon. […]
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1. Michael Kay brings up Fernando Tatis Jr. Suspended in 2021 due to PED usage, Tatis hasn’t been the same offensively since. During that 2021 campaign, he hit .282/.364/.611 (158 wRC+) with 42 home runs and 25 stolen bases. At 22 years old, he already had two Silver Sluggers, two top-five MVP finishes, and an […]
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Other off-season pieces: 11/18/25 11/15/25 11/7/25 10/30/25 Japanese Free Agents Rule 5 Primer 1. The Yankees non-tender Mark Leiter Jr., Ian Hamilton, Scott Effross, Jake Cousins, and Michael Arias This middling reliever bloodbath frees up five slots on the 40-man roster. And the crowd goes mild. “Could they have used these slots for Rule 5 […]
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Other off-season pieces: 11/15/25 11/7/25 10/30/25 Japanese Free Agents Rule 5 Primer 1. The Yankees add three prospects to the 40-man roster. The three they protected (Elmer Rodriguez, Spencer Jones, Chase Hampton) were the top three on my primer list, so I consider that a win. FYI: His Baseball Reference page has been changed to reflect the […]
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Other off-season pieces: 11/7/25 10/30/25 Japanese Free Agents Rule 5 Primer 1. Paul Skenes “wants to be a Yankee” (?) I bet people are already coming up with strange trade proposals to land Skenes, who won the National League Cy Young Award unanimously in his second season. Let’s go to Fantasy Land for a second […]
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The deadline for Rule 5 protection is coming next week, so it is time to look at who the Yankees will be looking to protect. The Yankees already added one player to their roster last week: RHP Kervin Castro. However, this was to prevent him from leaving via minor league free agency. The 40-man roster sits at […]
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