Keefe To The City

There's a report from Yahoo! Sports that DJ LeMahieu is "dismayed" with the Yankees and has asked his agent to connect with other teams on a contract. If true, it's not a surprise as the Yankees have yet to sign the team's best player. They have yet to do anything this offseason.

It's been three days since the last podcast and DJ LeMahieu is still a free agent, and over the last three days, the Yankees haven't improved their roster or rotation. The Yankees did finally make an offseason move, but it was nothing more than a depth move that will hopefully not have any impact on the team this season.

It’s been nearly three months since the Yankees’ season ended and they have done nothing to improve their roster in that time. They haven’t done anything to their roster at all, other than have impending free agents become free agents and release the ineffective Jonathan Holder. Spring training is a little more than a month away (if the season starts on time) and the Yankees are much worse today t...

The Yankees had to bring Zack Britton back for 2021 (and 2020), so they did. The Yankees didn't want to pay Brett Gardner $10 million for 2021, so they didn't. But everyone should expect Gardner to re-sign with the Yankees at a much lower cost.

Aaron Boone can keep talking about how the Yankees were a tie game in the eighth inning of Game 5 of the ALDS from beating the American League-winning Rays, but the difference between the two teams was much greater than that. The Yankees weren't going to score a second run in that game if it went 10 innings or 100 innings. The Yankees might be in a championship window, but when you look at th...

I didn't expect the Yankees to win Game 4. But if they were to win Game 4, I expected them to win Game 5 with Gerrit Cole on the mound. Well, they won Game 4, and now I expect them to win Game 5 and advance to the ALCS.

The Rays have exposed the Yankees over the last two nights with some help from the home plate umpires. Now the Yankees will give the ball to the worst of their starting pitching options to try to save the season and force a Game 5. The Yankees will be expected to win Game 5 with Gerrit Cole on the mound, but can they even get there?

The Yankees are in big trouble. They relinquished their ALDS lead with the worst possible first-guessed pitching decision and now they desperately need to win Game 3 or their season will likely end this week.

Gerrit Cole didn’t pitch like any Yankees fan expected him to pitch in Game 1 of the ALDS, but he pitched the way he has against the Rays all season. Thankfully, the Yankees’ offense showed up for the third straight game to open the postseason and made sure Cole’s off night didn’t cost the Yankees a win in the best-of-5.

The Yankees have a chance to avenge their disappointing 2-8 record against the Rays from the regular season by beating them in the ALDS. In order to do so, the Yankees’ offense will have to put up runs to keep the bullpen from blowing games and to keep Aaron Boone from managing the Yankees to a series loss.

The Yankees are very luck they aren’t playing an elimination Game 3 against the Indians with J.A. Happ on the mound on Thursday night. Aaron Boone did everything he could to manage his team to a loss in Game 2 on Wednesday, but the Yankees’ offense wouldn’t let his ineptitude overpower their ability. The Yankees will now play the Rays in the ALDS with a chance to avenge the regular-season disappoi...

The Yankees' offense took Shane Bieber out of Game 1 and Gerrit Cole took the Indians' offense out of Game 1. Most importantly, the Yankees' offense and Cole took Aaron Boone out of Game 1 in what was an easy 12-3 win in the best-of-3.

The Yankees keep talking about how they are trying to win home-field advantage for the best-of-3 series, but they’re clearly not trying their hardest. If they were, why was Michael King starting or opening on Monday night against the Blue Jays? It was a perfect opportunity to give Clarke Schmidt his first major league start, and instead, the Yankees went with the guy who has pitched a combined 14...

The Yankees are going to the postseason. It's something we have known since Opening Day when it was announced the postseason field would be expanded to eight teams. Now it's official and the Yankees can use the last seven games of the regular season to get ready for October.

The Yankees were rained out on Thursday and now will play a doubleheader on Friday against the Orioles. With Gerrit Cole in Game 1 and Masahiro Tanaka in Game 2, the Yankees need to sweep a doubleheader for the first time this season. The Yankees need to win at least three out of four against the Orioles this weekend. Andrew Rotondi of Bronx Pinstripes joined me to talk about the state of the Yank...

The Yankees finally won a game. Deivi Garcia led the way, and in the 43rd game of the season, Gleyber Torres decided to show up with a home run, double and four RBIs. The Yankees now have a chance to officially get back on track with a four-game series at home against the Orioles. At the 6:06 mark, former Yankees reliever Scott Proctor joins me to talk about his baseball career and time with the Y...

Entering this weekend, the Yankees had a 19-game winning streak against the lowly Orioles. That streak reached 20 games after Friday's win in the first game of the doubleheader, but after that, the Yankees lost three straight to the rebuilding Orioles. The Yankees' season continues to get worse as they are now in eighth in the AL, barely in a postseason spot.

If you thought the Yankees would get back on track this weekend against the Orioles, you must think this Yankees team is any good. They aren't. They were 16-6 and now they're 21-18. But according to their manager, they're doing "really good positive things."

On Thursday against the Mets, the combination of J.A. Happ and Aaron Boone blew a 4-0 lead, and the combination of Zack Britton and Aroldis Chapman blew a 7-4 lead. The loss was the Yankees' third in four games, and as their season continues to head in the wrong direction, the team keeps coming up with excuses when they lose.

The season series is over between the Yankees and Rays. Thankfully. The Rays won the series 8-2, and for as bad as that is, it seemed even worse. The Yankees won't see the Rays again unless they see them in the postseason, and no Yankees fan should want that.

The Yankees did it! They beat the Rays! After six straight losses to their only division competition, the Yankees avoided blowing another game to the Rays. Masahiro Tanaka was allowed to pitch six innings, DJ LeMahieu and Luke Voit kept on hitting and Kevin Kiermaier finally did something bad against the Yankees. Because of the ninth-inning antics, the series and season finale on Wednesday might l...

On Saturday against the Mets, J.A. Happ pitched like Gerrit Cole. And on Monday against the Rays, Gerrit Cole pitched like J.A. Happ. It was the second straight start in which Cole lasted only five innings, as he has now failed to beat the Rays in any of his three starts against them this season. Cole has been good this season, but he needs to be great. If he isn’t his old self a month from now, t...

The five-game Subway Series was full of surprises. The Yankees won games they were supposed to lose and lost games they were supposed to win. They walked off on the Mets twice and got walked off on despite being the home team. They won a game on a wild pitch and came back to win another game despite a 0.02 percent chance of winning. It was a crazy weekend made crazier by Aaron Boone.

The Yankees lost for the sixth straight game, and once again, it was a game they could have and should have won. Chad Green blew a three-run lead by allowing three home runs in an inning and Aaron Boone's lineup and in-game decisions were right in the middle of the loss. The Yankees still have to play the Mets four times this weekend and they will have to do so without any of their three top...

I don't know how the Yankees are going to win a game this weekend. Gerrit Cole and Masahiro Tanaka can't start and their 1 through 4 hitters are out as Aaron Judge becomes Giancarlo Stanton with injuries. After the five games against the Mets, things only get worse with three more games against the Rays and another game against the Mets next weekend.