According to MLB.com, Stanton's first-inning homer also had the hardest exit velocity for any home run hit to the opposite field since Statcast has tracked such things. The Yankees dropped two of three in Citi Field to a pretty mediocre Mets squad that weekend and fans were Mad Online.

I’m fairly certain we would have kept this thing going through at least 2011 without the level of readership that we attained. Fan confidence very rarely dipped below 7.00 from 2009-12. It was impressive to see that first-hand, and to see his approach," Judge said, smiling. Beyond the ins and outs of the Yanks’ rocky 2010s, we’ve all been through a lot together – job changes, career changes, grad school, weddings, births. RAB came of age at a time when the volume of data about baseball was readily available and increasing dramatically. At the same time, it is what it is. At some point, he looked at the credential card hanging below my neck and said this: “River Avenue Blues!

People were apparently more confident about winning the World Series before winning the World Series than after actually winning the World Series. On February 20, Mike kicked it all off. The best part of RAB has been the friendships, both the new ones I’ve made and the existing ones that grew stronger. The statistical understanding of the game shifted from Bill James’ printed books to Baseball Prospectus’ annuals to daily WAR updates to wRC+ in the span of a barely a decade. That was February 2. I was in high school at the time and had no idea what I was going to do with my life, so I never really saw myself ever writing for the site. It’s also about people like Derek, Steven, Matt, Bobby, Katie, Domenic and Ashley who contributed their time and effort to also make this blog much moreso than just a blog. We felt we could provide comprehensive Yankee coverage from a fan perspective and do a better job than anyone else out there. We started out as business partners and became fast friends, adding Jay a few years in to keep everything humming smoothly. In our shutdown post I said I was considering a mailing list/newsletter type thing with a weekly “thoughts” style post.
That homer was a virtual carbon copy of the first, landing closer to straightaway center amid a set of rows all adorned in blue and white bunting. (2) Eyeballing it, I would’ve guessed that dip in mid-2010 was the Cliff Lee non-trade.

30 PA) in that span. Here’s an interactive Fan Confidence Graph and here’s an annotated version: (1) The absolute peak of the Fan Confidence Poll is, of course, the 2009 World Series. The Yankees-Mets Subway Series in 2000 put a spotlight on baseball and New York, but it also marked an unexpected turning point for the game.

We’re all younger than that now. For me, however, it was all joy. We all thought we could do a better job than our favorite team’s GM. Asked about Stanton's day, Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez offered one word while speaking next to a translator: "Impresionante" (or, "impressive" in Spanish). Our Twitter account @RiverAveBlues will remain active though. Will Dodgers be OK if Dustin May, Tony Gonsolin don't contribute more? The challenge is to find a way to get through this storm, batten down the hatches, and come out on the other end with clear skies and sunny days ahead. What I want to emphasize here more is how a website created by fan bloggers – out of labor of love, nonetheless – became so developed and established enough to get first-hand praise from the general manager of the New York Yankees, earn a commercial spot at the YES Network, get funding to pay the writers, etc. Big trade? We've got a lot of power hitters. We still love the Yanks, warts, frustrations, injuries and all; it’s just time to love the Yankees as fans again.

Mike, our Energizer bunny, kept going and going and going, but when a passion project isn’t a passion any longer, it’s time to hang up. Spread the news: Stanton hits 2 HRs for Yanks, World Series 'travel day' roundtable: Everything we learned in Games 1 and 2, Cruz, Freeman winners at Players Choice Awards, Lowe busts out with 2 HRs as Rays even Series, Dodgers keep Urias' arm fresh for Game 4 start, Padres lefty Strahm to undergo knee surgery, Nationals re-signing Harrison to one-year deal, Cash defends career-high pitch count by Glasnow, How Brandon Lowe got his swing straightened out at exactly the right time. I can’t exactly pinpoint when I started to read RAB, but it was around 2007 or 2008. This site was a community: where anyone could come in and get their daily dose of the New York Yankees. Easy peasy.

Yankees' Cashman: 'Our fans deserve better baseball than this', Get the latest trending sports news daily in your inbox. Fan confidence jumped from 7.06 to 8.41. Ben, Mike, and Jay for friendships that extend far beyond River Ave. Blues. Jonah Keri and Jay Jaffe for using their relatively prominent positions to help spread the good work that independent bloggers were doing back in the day. The climb from the 2016 trade deadline through 2017 is pretty neat. I enjoy the snark and the short, snappy posts. I was contacting basically every blog’s emails to give them my hand. It’s obviously a weighty praise especially given the context. The following week it was at 9.25. As someone who was trying to find a footing somewhere writing about something I love, it was an offer I couldn’t pass. Give it time and you’ll learn your way around. Series of injuries? A few hours later in the same email thread, a name was born. What a time to be alive. (Update: Just to be clear, the Patreon will be year-round, not just during the baseball season.). You’ll get an email each time a post goes live. In his first at-bat for the Yankees, Giancarlo Stanton crushed a pitch from Blue Jays starter J.A.
I was informed of the opportunity to cover it for River Avenue Blues and simply took it. Real Yankees fans know that they can find the best commentary, analysis, and community at River Ave. Blues. As Mike said, River Avenue Blues lived about a billion years old for blog standards, and it would not have been possible without the love of everyone – especially you, the readers – involved. All of you who found us over the years. Welcome back, El Gary!

As soon as Stanton made contact with the baseball, he looked at where he hit the opposite-field shot. Both of Stanton's shots were sights that Yankees fans had eagerly been hoping to see since the team traded for him in December.

The individual player pages at Baseball Savant (here is CC Sabathia’s, for example) are incredibly useful. JP, Steve H, James K, Stephen, Brock, Hannah, Larry, Moshe, Jamie, Eric, Matt W, Katie, Betsy, Sung-Min, Steven, Dom, Matt I, Bob, Ashley, Derek, and countless infrequent contributors for helping us maintain our high standards for content both in quantity and quality. In January 2017, the Yankees were doing the “Winter Warm-Up” series to introduce newer players to the fanbase through sandwich workshops, surprising ticketholders, going to museums, etc. Gleyber Torres and Gary Sanchez put an exclamation point on the win with a pair of homers in the third and sixth innings. Even doing all that, there was always a thing in back of my mind that I yelled at me about baseball writing. "We have 19 (games) to go," Cashman continued, per Curry.