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The blog formerly known as River Ave. Blues. We still post twice a week on Patreon: patreon.com/RABthoughts
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19.11.2025 21:06 — 👍 94 🔁 25 💬 22 📌 71Double old friend alert: The Rays traded Everson Pereira to the White Sox for Yoendrys Gómez.
18.11.2025 23:46 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Grisham's back for 2026, so the Yankees have their CF. Brian Cashman said they would still pursue Cody Bellinger even if Grisham took the QO, though I'd rather they not just run back the exact same offense next year. We'll see.
18.11.2025 21:05 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 2Thank you for everyone's patience... I'm happy to announce that Yankees bot is back!
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Our annual Offseason Plan is up at the Patreon. Trades we'd make, free agents we'd sign, etc. Be sure to bookmark for future mocking purposes. www.patreon.com/posts/offici...
14.11.2025 14:38 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The 2026 Hall of Fame ballot: Bobby Abreu, Carlos Beltrán, Ryan Braun, Mark Buehrle, Shin-Soo Choo, Edwin Encarnación, Gio González, Alex Gordon, Cole Hamels, Félix Hernández, Torii Hunter, Andruw Jones, Matt Kemp, Howie Kendrick, Nick Markakis, Daniel Murphy, Dustin Pedroia, Hunter Pence, Andy Pettitte, Rick Porcello, Manny Ramírez, Álex Rodríguez, Francisco Rodríguez, Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley, Omar Vizquel, David Wright
The 2026 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot as announced moments ago by @baseballhall.org (baseballhall.org/news/2026-bb...). Results will be announced Jan. 20th. Game on!
17.11.2025 17:08 — 👍 206 🔁 53 💬 39 📌 208Yarbs returns. The Yankees tweaked his changeup this past season and he had his highest strikeout rate in years, and he didn't sacrifice any of the ability to limit hard contact he's survived on throughout his career. Perfectly cromulent swingman/sixth starter.
17.11.2025 16:22 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Yogi Berra admires his three Most Valuable Player Awards displayed on the wall of his home. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum)
If Aaron Judge needs interior decorating inspiration, look no further than Yogi.
Judge is the fourth Yankees player to win three AL MVP Awards, joining Berra, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle.
Our annual Offseason Plan is up at the Patreon. Trades we'd make, free agents we'd sign, etc. Be sure to bookmark for future mocking purposes. www.patreon.com/posts/offici...
14.11.2025 14:38 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0If you turned 50 Raleigh outs into hits, he'd still have a lower AVG than Judge's .331
Flip 68 Raleigh outs into times on base and his OBP would still be lower than Judge's .457
Josh Naylor was great (.490 SLG), Raleigh outslugged him by 99 points (.589), Judge outslugged Raleigh by 99 (.688)
lol good for Tyler Wade getting the Aaron Judge MVP party invite
14.11.2025 01:00 — 👍 49 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
Aaron Judge won his third MVP. It was really close. He's the 13th player in history with three MVPs. Cody Bellinger got a few down ballot votes.
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14.11.2025 00:50 — 👍 39 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Teams often slash payroll ahead of a sale. If the Yankees trade for Fernando Tatis Jr. and give me even just one season of Tatis and Jazz as teammates, I'm willing to forgive them for every Josh Donaldson at-bat and Marcus Stroman inning I had to watch.
13.11.2025 17:26 — 👍 24 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 2
Max Fried finished fourth in the AL Cy Young voting. Carlos Rodón got a few votes too.
13.11.2025 00:27 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
With lots of moving parts in their rotation, the #Yankees have shown interest in re-signing Ryan Yarbrough, a source said.
The swingman would give NY depth & flexibility. However, a reunion shouldn't stop NY from pursuing a frontline starter.
For the fourth time in his eight years as manager, Aaron Boone did not get any Manager of the Year votes. That equals the number of times NYY's manager failed to get a vote in the previous 32 years.
12.11.2025 00:58 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Nick Kurtz won AL Rookie of the Year unanimously. Will Warren and Jasson Domínguez got some down-ballot votes.
11.11.2025 00:28 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Two notable things happening this week:
- GM Meetings: Not as busy as the Winter Meetings but occasionally things happen. (The Aaron Hicks trade was made at the 2015 Winter Meetings.)
- Awards: Thursday night we'll find out if Aaron Judge is a three-time MVP or two-time MVP runner-up.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Aaron Judge (duh) won Silver Sluggers. The Yankees won the team Silver Slugger too. Thus concludes your Silver Slugger update.
07.11.2025 23:45 — 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Yankees made Trent Grisham the qualifying offer. It's a one-year, $22.025M deal. If he takes it, he's back next year. If he doesn't, the Yankees will get a draft pick if he signs elsewhere.
06.11.2025 21:46 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 510 years ago (!) I wrote about Elway's year in the farm system: web.archive.org/web/20170726...
06.11.2025 21:22 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Whole lot going on here for the Yankees:
06.11.2025 21:18 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 2Some of you old RAB DoTF Heads may be interested in this.
Renzo Martini played in the Serie A baseball league in Italy from 2021-24. He hit .389/.464/.577 in 149 total games.
One of the best names ever.
2026 New York Yankees Spring Training Schedule: February: 2/20: @ BAL 2/21: vs. DET 2/22: vs NYM 2/23: @ PIT 2/24: @ TOR 2/25: vs WSH 2/26: vs ATL 2/27: @ MIN 2/28: vs TOR March: 3/1: @ PHI 3/3: vs PAN* 3/4: @BOS 3/5: vs MIN 3/6: vs TB 3/7: @ WSH 3/8: @ NYM 3/9: vs PIT 3/10: @ PHI 3/11: vs TOR 3/12: @ DET 3/13: @ ATL 3/14: vs PHI 3/15: vs DET / @ BAL 3/17: @ TB 3/18: vs BOS 3/19: vs BAL / @ TOR 3/20: vs BAL 3/21: @ DET / vs ATL (Spring Breakout) 3/22: vs PHI 3/23: @ CHC (Mesa, AZ) 3/24: @ CHC (Mesa, AZ) Navy Blue = Home Game White = Away Game Royal blue = Spring Breakout (Home) *Yankees vs Panama WBC Exhibition game Schedule updated as of 11/05/25 Time, opponent, date and team rosters and lineups, including the Yankees' roster and lineup are subject to change. For information: Yankees.com Mastercard preferred by Yankees
Our 2026 Spring Training Schedule is here! 🌴
See you in Tampa 🗓️👉 https://www.mlb.com/yankees/schedule/2026-02
$3M. So cheap it's basically zero risk. Hill is death on lefties but he's starting to have more problems with righties. Maybe they get that figured out next year. If not, they just had to pick their spots a little better.
05.11.2025 14:53 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
16 years ago today. Sigh.
04.11.2025 17:01 — 👍 37 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 4Judge is an MVP finalist. Winner will be announced next Thursday.
03.11.2025 23:10 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As expected. It was a $25M option with a $5M buyout, so a $20M decision for Bellinger. I think some of the contract estimates out there are way too high, but he'll beat $20M easily.
03.11.2025 18:46 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Contemporary Baseball Era player ballot includes Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Carlos Delgado, Jeff Kent, Don Mattingly, Dale Murphy, Gary Sheffield and Fernando Valenzuela. (Kent photo: Martha Jane Stanton, Valenzuela photo: MLB Photos, all others National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum)
The Contemporary Baseball Era player ballot features eight candidates for consideration in the Hall of Fame Class of 2026.
Results will be announced at 7:30 p.m. ET on Dec. 7: ow.ly/Agwx50XlQRH
