On this day, twenty years ago, Yankee pitcher David Cone pitched a perfect game, a feat he didn’t manage with Royals, the Mets, the Blue Jays and the Red Sox. On Yogi Berra Day, in a legend-filled Yankee Stadium, Don Larsen threw out the first pitch to 1956 battery mate Yogi Berra to commemorate Larsen’s…
This year the Yankees pitching isn’t performing the way it should, which is quite an understatement. The new pitchers that were acquired last year, Luis Severino and Nathan Eovaldi, are performing worse than they did last year. Eovaldi’s numbers are not much worse but still he declined from 4.20 to 4.76. Severino had a solid…
For me, as a Yankee fan, 1996 was a great year. Not only because of the birth of my oldest daughter, but also because the Yankees won their first World Series since 1978. Back then I wasn’t even aware of baseball in America. That notion would only come in 1981. There was only one tiny…
