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The veteran right-hander emphasized throwing his excellent slider more and turned into quite a weapon from the bullpen. He would make sense for the Yankees

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May 24, 2021 Robbie Ray is having a huge season thus far. He has a 3.42 ERA and 1.10 WHIP in 47.3 innings and his 3.29 SIERA stands as a career best, even better than in 2017 when he posted a 2.89 ERA but a 3.53 SIERA. While being consistently maddening throughout his career – even in 2017 he had a 4.57 ERA through 8 starts and was likely on some waiver wires only to deliver a 2.24 ERA in his final 20 starts – he didn’t lose widespread fantasy appeal until last year’s 6.62 ERA in 51.7 i...

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Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports If someone told you that the Yankees would receive important contributions from a 34-year-old reliever pitching in the big leagues for the first time in six years, would you have believed that person? I wouldn’t have, but that’s the beauty about baseball: it’s full of surprises, Cinderella stories, and underdogs. Lucas Luetge, fueled by the Gas Station and its resources and facilities during spring training, managed to significantly increase the spin ra...

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Breaking News: Gerrit Cole is good. Really good. What if he could be even better, though? It seems as if Cole and the Yankees asked themselves this very question, because Cole has deployed a shiny new toy so far this season, and it’s making him even more difficult for opposing hitters to square up. Throughout his career, Cole has predominantly thrown a fastball, slider and curveball, along with intermittent use of a changeup. The change was never more than ...

April 7, 2021 There’s this phenomenon in writing where you have an idea and you start putting together the piece. In the midst of writing it, you may take a random break and pop onto your Twitter feed. Whilst scanning said feed, you may run across an article posted with not only your exact premise, but damn near the same title, too. This is what Nick Pollack and Alex Fast at PitcherList have termed “Getting Sullivan’d” based on outstanding Fangraphs alumnus Jeff Sullivan. Well, PitcherL...