Keefe To The City

It's a summer Friday. No one should be this upset on a summer Friday, but here I am furious about the Yankees because of their last three games. The Yankees are falling apart .

The Yankees have one team they're competing against for the AL East title and they can't beat them. After losing to the Rays 4-2 on Wednesday night, the Yankees are now 1-5 against their only division competition this season.

The Rays are better than the Yankees. Maybe they won't be at the end of the season, but right now they are. Even if the Yankees hold a 1 1/2-game lead over them in the standings, the Rays are now 4-1 against the Yankees this season.

The Yankees don't lose at home and they certainly don't lose to the Red Sox. After sweeping the Red Sox in a three-game series a couple of weeks ago at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees swept them again, this time in a four-game series. The Yankees have now won 10 straight against the Red Sox for the first time since 1952-53. With the four wins over the Red Sox, the Yankees have now won six st...

Aaron Boone might have outright lied as Yankees manager to the fans and the media when he removed Aaron Judge from Tuesday's game. If he did, it's not a great look for a manager in New York. If he didn't, then Aaron Judge seemingly can't stay healthy once again. Either way, it's bad for the Yankees.

When the Yankees lead a game 3-0 after the first inning, 6-0 after the third innning and 8-0 after the fifth inning, there should be no reason to get upset, frustrated or annoyed with Aaron Boone. But the Yankees manager always finds a way.

On top of five losses in seven games, Aaron Boone has been as bad as ever with days off and bullpen decisions, the Yankees still can't situationally hit, James Paxton is being treated as a hero for blowing a three-run lead and Giancarlo Stanton is once again hurt as a Yankee. It was a bad week.

Giancarlo Stanton played in only 18 games last season and then missed a lot of the postseason with various injuries. After playing in 14 games this season (all as the designated hitter), Stanton now has a hamstring injury. When will it end with him?

The Yankees had two hits and seven baserunners on Friday night and lost 1-0, but they didn't lose because of their lack of baserunners. The Rays only had two hits and four baserunners and managed to get across the game's lone run in an inning without a hit. The difference in the game was the Yankees' situational hitting. In a game in which Blake Snell was removed after three innings...

The Yankees haven't clinched or won anything in 2020. Even at 9-3 they don't have the best record in the American League or in baseball, but they are being managed like they have everything wrapped up.

J.A. Happ can't start another game for the Yankees. After providing 30 mostly awful starts in 2019, Happ has continued his decline by laying two eggs to begin 2020. In two starts, Happ has only been pitched seven innings, while allowing eight earned runs, eight walks and three home runs. The Yankees need to stop thinking Happ is going to get better and figure it out. He's not. It's...

In his third start as a Yankees, Gerrit Cole didn't have his best stuff and hasn't had it yet with New York. Despite this, he's 3-0 with a 2.55 ERA. Brett Gardner proved the super baseballs are still in play as he hit an opposite-field home run, a feat that seemed impossible for him prior to the change in the ball and Gio Urshela hit his third home run of the season. Aaron Boone tri...

Neil Keefe and Mike Hurley of CBS Boston talk about the Red Sox’ abysmal starting pitching, watching this Red Sox team for a full season, revisiting the team’s decision to not sign Mookie Betts, the career progression of Rafael Devers and decline of Andrew Benintendi.

Another game, another win for the Yankees as their winning streak is now at five games after their 5-2 win over the Red Sox. Masahiro Tanaka was OK in his season debut, which was limited due to a pitch count, but Aaron Judge homered for the fourth straight game and Gio Ursheal hit the Yankees’ second grand slam in three nights to power the offense. The Yankees got 6 1/3 innings of two-hit, shutout...

The Yankees' home-opening 5-1 win over the Red Sox was their fourth straight, and given how bad this Red Sox team is, the Yankees should beat up on them all season. The Red Sox' lineup still boasts J.D. Martinez, Rafael Devers and Xander Bogaerts, but after that, there's not much. (Andrew Benintendi is part of the not much.) As for their pitching staff ... well, it's right ther...

Before the season, I said I was going to be patient and understanding and wouldn't get upset with Aaron Boone this season. I said I was going to accept his managerial ways even if they are at times confusing, frustrating and nonsensical. Well, it didn't even take five full games for me to scrap my plan. After Boone's bullpen management in Baltimore, I had no choice.

After two unexpected days off, the Yankees played again on Wednesday night and won again, beating the Orioles 9-3 to improve to 3-1 on the season. Why was Gerrit Cole out for the seventh inning at 90 pitches with a six-run lead and nine outs to go to a win? And why is the team not playing the everyday lineup in a season in which they have already had three days off in a week and could have additio...

For as good as the Yankees were and are expected to be this season, Saturday night proved why I still have my doubts about them in the postseason. Without Luis Severino this season, the Yankees need James Paxton to be a front-end starter and they can't afford for him to have many other starts like his first.

Neil Keefe and Scott Reinen of Bronx Pinstripes talk about the Yankees’ season-opening win over the Nationals, Brett Gardner batting fifth in the lineup, Gerrit Cole’s Yankees debut, the new-look Giancarlo Stanton, Tyler Wade’s best game in the majors and the expanded postseason field.

Neil Keefe talks with former Yankees pitcher Brian Gordon about transitioning from the outfield to the mound after a decade in the minors, how Nolan Ryan helped him change positions, his first call-up the majors as a reliever with the Rangers, his unbelievable 2011 season in Triple-A, the June 15 opt out that allowed him to be a Yankee, making his first career start in Yankee Stadium, playing in t...

Neil Keefe and Andrew Rotondi of Bronx Pinstripes talk about  the return of baseball and to do our annual individual Yankees over/unders to get ready for the start of the 2020 season.

Neil Keefe and Neil Paine of Five Thirty Eight talk about his recent Rangers-related playoff point article, how the Rangers' lack of overtime and shootout play has hurt their playoff chance and ways the NHL can improve their current point system and overtime format.

For the third straight podcast, there’s no guest. It's once again a Yankees injury update and it's once again not good. Judge is undergoing more testing for his shoulder and if he can't start playing in spring training games by the end of next week, he won't be ready for Opening Day, and the Yankees' entire outfield will be on the injured list.

Giancarlo Stanton had an up-and-down first season with the Yankees, which ended with him flailing at a Craig Kimbrel slider several feet off the plate and in the dirt. His second season was a disaster as he played in just 18 regular-season games and then ended up watching the Yankees lose to the Astros in the ALCS on the bench. There's no guest today. It's just me for the second straight...

There's no guest today. It's just me being sad, frustrated, annoyed and mad about the news that Luis Severino needs Tommy John surgery and will miss the entire 2020 season.