Articles by paperbacklou

Bryan Woo is a 23-year old, “athletic 6-foot-2 righthander with an easy, explosive delivery. His plus fastball sits 93-94 mph and touches 96 with above-average ride that helps it miss bats in the strike zone.” […]

Marcus Stroman pitched a 2-hit shutout into the 8th inning, and left leading 4-1 after allowing a solo homer. But Clay Holmes and the Yankees coughed up his brilliant performance, as Seattle scored 4 runs […]

Carlos Rodon wasn’t feeling very well, but he did not blink. He held serve in this on-going streak of great starts by Yankee starting pitchers, each one matching or bettering the previous starter’s performance. NY […]

The comparisons between this Yankee team and the 1998 team continue to be uncanny. Just like 1998, game after game the Yank starting pitcher matches or outdoes the performance of the Yankee starter from the […]

Just like the 1998 Yankees, each time a Yankee starter goes out, he seems to try and one-up the performance from the Yankee starter of the prior game. And so it was once again — […]

Clarke Schmidt pitched 8 innings of 3-hit, shutout ball, striking out 8 with 0 walks to lead the Yankees to a 5-0 win over the Twins in Minnesota on a Thursday afternoon, sweeping the 3 […]

This is starting to feel the way it was in 1998, when the Yankees set a record for wins in a season with 114: The Yankee starters were dueling each other, each one trying to […]

Carlos Rodon got off to a rickety start, allowing a homer to the first batter of the game, and struggling through the 1st inning — but then got motoring like a Ford GT, pitching shutout […]

Luke Weaver got the Hold of the Year — saving the Yankee bullpen from blowing a 6-0 lead in the 7th by “this much.” The Yankees seemed to have this game at hand, leading 6-0 […]