Carsten Charles (CC) Sabathia Jr. is only a few days away from immortality, with his Baseball Hall of Fame induction only a little over a week away. The ceremony will be held on July 27, 2025, in Cooperstown, NY, a quiet hamlet a few hours west of Albany, tucked away in the Catskills. Sabathia had …
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This performance drought is starting to feel like 2023 all over again. In June 2023, they played 23 games and went 11-12 (.478); this past June, they played 27 games and went 13-14 (.481). The Yankees are very nearly playing like they did in 2023, the worst season they’d had since the early 90s. The …
The New York Yankees, a franchise synonymous with winning and unparalleled success, are currently navigating a tumultuous period in their 2025 season. What began with high hopes and championship aspirations has slowly devolved into a palpable sense of mid-season melancholy, leaving fans and pundits alike questioning the team’s trajectory. It’s a redundant story that fans have seen the past few years.
Saturday’s Yankees versus Red Sox game came under scrutiny when DJ LeMahieu hit the chalk on the 1st base foul line, but the play was called “foul”. It’s a judgment call, initially. Yankees manager Aaron Boone later argued that that judgment call set a poor standard for the potential of the call getting overturned. After …
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Built for this. Born for this. Here we are. Or at least, ChatGPT thinks so. Of the two LLMs (Large Language Models), I, and others, preferred ChatGPT. Gemini is great for a lot of things, but no matter how I tweaked the commands, it kept throwing me lists of players that had already been drafted …
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Many outlets have teams on their staff that discuss college prospects and generate mock MLB drafts in the weeks and months leading up to the actual draft in July. We’re just a small team of two at Yankees Savant, so we decided to outsource our mock draft to AI to see what they would generate. …
Many outlets have teams on their staff that discuss college prospects and generate mock MLB drafts in the weeks and months leading up to the actual draft in July. We’re just a small team of two at Yankees Savant, so we decided to outsource our mock draft to AI to see what they would generate. …
Yankees Savant presents our top 10 prospect list for the New York Yankees farm system. There may be a few more surprises here than other lists, along with a bit more honesty than other outlets.
I had the opportunity to catch up on Yankees right-handed pitching prospect Carson Coleman earlier today after a brief appearance in Tampa, FL on rehab. To catch things up, Coleman was signed as a free agent during the pandemic in June 2020, and didn’t debut until May 5, 2021 with Low-A Tampa. He spent the …
It was announced earlier today that LHP Griffin Herring and OF Tyler Wilson were both named (in a sweep!) the Florida State League Pitcher and Player of the Week, respectively. It’s rare to see a prospect perform the same or better in the pros compared to his collegiate career, but that’s exactly what Tarpons LHP …
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