Extra-Intellect: Yankees Edition

January 16, 2009 BY Alex Eisenberg No Comments Yet

As the Yankees top prospect list comes out, it’s worth it to take a look at what’s being talked about around New York.

NoMaas makes the case for Andy Pettitte to return as the team’s fifth starter

Steve Lombardi thinks the Yankees need to get off to a fast start should they not want to be left out of the playoffs

A very cool story relayed to me by Kevin Rozell of Zell’s Pinstripe Blog in which Kevin, a collector of sports memorabilia and cards, was looking for some cards of Phil Hughes and used the Beckett message boards to help with his search. He received a message from a member of the forum who happened to be none other than Phil Hughes himself. You can read the rest of the story, but Hughes ended up helping Kevin in what was a very classy gesture and something you will almost never see a professional athlete do. Kudos to Phil…

Replacement Level Yankees has a couple of “extremely early projections” for the upcoming season, one using Marcel’s projections and the other using the Hardball Times