Fangraphs | Jeff Sullivan:Michael Pineda hasn't just returned to form following surgery, he's arguably been better with a more aggressive approach.

The Record | Steve Popper: Derek Jeter has picked things up just in time for his big send off.

NJ.com | Brendan Kuty: Catch Bud Selig's reaction to the impending return of Alex Rodriguez.

It's About the Money | Brad Vietrogoski: When the Yankees claimed Eury Perez from the Nationals, they may have been thinking beyond the next week of the season.

Fangraphs | Dave Cameron: The success that Chase Headley, Martin Prado, Brandon McCarthy, have seen proves the Yankees have cornered the market on reclamation projects

LoHud | Chad Jennings: Joe Girardi is still working on a plan for how he will handle Derek Jeter's last home game.

Newsday | Cody Derespina: As Derek Jeter's career winds down, Jose Pirela is just getting his first shot.

Can the team return to the offense of the championship years?

As the season wraps up, the Yankees offense could be best described as dreadful.  For the second season in a row the team will miss the playoffs.  The once feared "Bronx Bombers," have been reduced to hitting mediocrity.  During the championship seasons, the Yankees were known for patience, on-base percentage, power and batting average.  The past couple of seasons, they have accomplished none of those things.  Looking at the chart below, it becomes even more obvious that the team has veered off the course.

It's apparent that the mix of players on the 2013 and 2014 teams are substantially different from those on the championship winners in the past. The sad part is that the front office failed to completely address this in the offseason.  Now that we have this info at our disposal, let’s break it down to players with at least 200 at-bats from the 2014 season.

The Good

Brett Gardner has had a nice season that would’ve been even better if he could cut down on his ugly strikeout percentage.  The four year contract that he just signed is already looking like a steal. Ellsbury had a nice first season in pinstripes putting up solid all-around numbers.

The Bad

Going into the season, everybody thought Brian McCann was going to take-off in Yankee Stadium.  Unfortunately, the first year hasn’t gone as planned.  His numbers have been disappointing, other than his home runs. He ended the season on a good note that will hopefully carry into next year.

The Ugly

Unfortunately other than Jacoby Ellsbury, Brett Gardner and Brian McCann the rest of the position players were a waste land.   Mark Teixeiracontinues to have injury issues, providing nothing more than his glove and home runs.  The last two seasons of that deal are going to be brutal.  Derek Jeter, as great as he once was, provided very little offensively.  Thanks to a nagging elbow injury, Carlos Beltran struggled all season.  Ichiro Suzuki, Brian Roberts, Kelly Johnson and Alfonso Soriano all received way too long of a leash, giving little in return.

Conclusion

Age and underperformance, absolutely destroyed any semblance of offense that this team has had.  The good news is that the team will turnover some of the roster this offseason.  Martin Prado will return for a full year and will most likely play second base. If he puts up similar numbers to the past couple of seasons it will be quite the upgrade in comparison to what they put out there this year.   For the first time in 20 years the Yankees will be looking for a new shortstop, which should also be an upgrade in offense.  Hopefully, Carlos Beltran can return to form after offseason elbow surgery to remove a bone spur, as his numbers have easily trumped Ichiro Suzuki’s.  With third base and shortstop openings this offseason, the Yankees need to look for players that fit the team’s offensive legacy.  It’s time to get back to what made the team dominant the past 20 years.  Acquire players that hit for power, average, are patient and get on-base.  Going forward it’s also important that the team be pro-active and cut underperforming players.

Stats courtesy of Fangraphs.com

Shane Greene, one of the best stories of 2014, takes the mound this afternoon. This will most likely be his last start of 2014. We look forward to seeing him in 2015.

Comment of the Game

I like Jeter and I love Legos, so LTL wins the COTG award for this post. He knows me a little too well.

Best GIF of the Recap

Andrew takes home the BGOTR award for this GIF of Mo chewing gum. As if he's waiting for the season to be over with. We're all there, Mo.

Honorable Mod Mention

Matt P wins the HMM award for this pic of Selig.

Best Comments of the Day

Our first COTD award goes to don fernando, detailing how and why he roots for the Yankees

Our second COTD award goes to Rorschach, for also describing some details of his Yankee fandom.

• It is supposed to rain tomorrow. What do you think MLB will do with the game if it does?
• Favorite thing to eat at a baseball game?

As always link us you song of the day!

go yankees go greene go jeter

The lefty reliever has been incredible since he came to the Beltway.

When I think of the big trade deadline deals this season, whether or not they occurred on July 31st, I think of the Oakland trades. I think of the David Price trade. To a lesser extent, I think of the Yankees' trades for Prado and Headley as well as the Cardinals' trade for Lackey. I barely even considered the Andrew Miller to Baltimore trade. It's time to consider it.

Miller had two decent seasons as a reliever before this year. His K rate was at least 30% in both 2012 and 2013, but he also walked a lot of guys. His K-BB% last year was good but not elite. However, in 2014, he took a leap forward. He's still almost exclusively a fastball/slider guy, so his pitch usage isn't responsible for the jump. He's still using the fastball earlier in counts and the slider as the putout pitch. The main difference appears to be that the slider is generating more whiffs.

The increased effectiveness of the slider can be tied to greater command of the pitch. Below, you'll see two more images. The first shows the zone profile of Miller's slider in 2012-2013. The second shows the 2014 zone profile of Miller's slider.

Against right handed hitters, Miller is back-footing that slider like a champ. Against lefties, it just dives away from them. Miller has greatly increased the concentration of pitches in that low-and-away (against LHH)/low-and-in (against RHH) area while keeping the pitch away from the strike zone.

Miller's been effective this year. That's fairly known. However, since being traded to Baltimore, Miller has been nothing short of a steamroller in his 18.1 innings. It's a very small sample size, of course, but Miller has a 0.4 FIP in those innings. He's allowed only two earned runs. TWO. He's allowed zero home runs. In that short number of innings, Miller has actually gathered more than one win of value (fWAR). Miller has provided Baltimore with almost as much value as he gave the Red Sox in less than half the innings this year.

Comparing against an arbitrary selection of other deadline deals, Miller ranks fairly well. That David Price guy has only about half a win more than Miller in more than triple the innings. Miller's been more valuable than Lackey or Justin Masterson for the Cardinals; in fact, Miller has been more valuable than those two combined since Masterson has been terrible. Jon Lester has provided almost the same value as Miller but in about quadruple the number of innings. Martin Prado and Chase Headley have provided more value to the Yankees, but they are hitters and also play defense. Both players have been good at both things.

Comparing against other relievers, traded or not, Miller ranks fairly well again. Miller ranks 12th in RE24 since the beginning of August, but he's clumped around a bunch of other guys. He's not far from the top 10, as shown in the table below.

If fWAR is a bit easier to capture his value without context, here's a table showing the top 10 relievers by fWAR in August and September. You'll find Miller tied at the top with two of the very best relievers this season.

While the Orioles' main drivers of great performance this year have been the power and the defense, let's not forget that the Orioles have a filthy bullpen made all the filthier by the acquisition of Andrew Miller.

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EDIT: All these data were current as of the morning of 9/23. Of course, during the evening of 9/23 and after this article was written, Miller went out and gave up a home run, which increased his FIP from 0.4 to 1.04 as an Oriole. Baseball. The point still stands. Miller is really good.

All statistics courtesy of FanGraphs and Brooks Baseball.

Kevin Ruprecht is an Editor of Beyond the Box Score. He also writes at Royals Review. You can follow him on Twitter at @KevinRuprecht.

Let's break down actual reasons to love the Yankees' shortstop, who *apparently* won't be manning the area between second and third base soon.

The Derek Jeter Retirement Tour has been a bore, but it beats the alternative.

There's a lot of negative things waiting to be said about the Derek Jeter Retirement Tour.

Mo set a bad precedent last year with his farewell tour; I have no interest in the David Ortiz Tour or the Mark Buehrle Tour or (help us) the A-Rod Tour. Jeter has received too much playing time, too many marquee ABs at the top of the lineup, too many pasta dives that have cost games. The goodbye commercials are maudlin on their own, and paired with the tour, it's all just uninterestingly boorish.

But I'm making myself feel glad we're having it.

Joe DiMaggio quit rather than fight for another contract from the Yankees, who had found a center fielder from Oklahoma to replace him with. DiMaggio's pride was stung when the Dodgers leaked a scouting report after the '51 series, saying he was washed up.

"He can't stop quickly and throw hard. You can take the extra base on him. . . ."He can't run and won't bunt. . . . "His reflexes are very slow, and he can't pull a good fastball at all."

For DiMaggio, who hated how he (and other players of the Reserve Clause era) had to beg and posture to get what he considered a fair contract, it was the last straw.

Phil Rizzuto was cruelly cut in August as the Yankees cruised to their 7th pennant in 8 seasons. Management called Rizzuto into the office on Old Timers' Day, to let him know they'd claimed Enos Slaughter off waivers, and they asked him who should be cut to make room. One by one, Rizzuto went through the players on the roster, until finally he realized that he was expendable piece. It seems to me a move meant simply to be castigating and tyrannical. I find it hard to believe that Rizzuto ever spoke well of the Yankees again.

Babe Ruth was a Boston Brave and Elston Howard was a Boston Red Sox. Ruth campaigned too publically for the manager's job as his career wound down with the Yankees and he was cut. He was lured to the Braves by a promise to transition into a front office role, but the responsibilities to match the title never materialized.

Howard wasted much of his prime on the bench and in the minor leagues because of military service and then George Weiss' racism. As the Yankees crumbled in the late '60s, Howard still found a chance to shine in the World Series matchup between the Sox and Roger Maris' Cardinals.

Yogi Berra and Willie Randolph were New York Mets. Berra was fired despite taking the Yankees to the World Series, before Casey Stengel talked him into a brief return as a player-manager. Randolph was allowed to leave as a free agent despite always being near the top of the league in OBP.

For the sake of my childhood and my sense of loyalty, I'm enjoying these last few days watching Derek Jeter turn back the clock. Because there are very few players who mean enough to franchise to be allowed this luxury.

The postseason will again be without a representative from New York.

For the first time in 21 years, there will be two consecutive MLB postseasons without the New York Yankees. The Bronx Bombers were officially eliminated from postseason play on Wednesday with a 9-5 loss to the Orioles.

Following the 1994 players strike, the Yankees made the playoffs an incredible 17 times in 18 seasons, the first 18 years of Derek Jeter's career. But after missing out in 2013, the Yankees are again home in October in 2014, the first time they have missed the playoff in consecutive seasons since going a dozen years without a postseason from 1982-93.

Brian McCann hit 20 home runs for a seventh straight season in his first year in New York, but surely the Yankees expected more than a .289 on-base percentage and .410 slugging average from their catcher in the first year of a five-year, $85 million contract.

Nobody truly stood out on offense for the Yankees, and having Brett Gardner and Jacoby Ellsbury battle in the low .400s for the highest slugging percentage on the team among regulars is no way to contend.

The Yankees in 2015 could benefit in a couple of ways. For one, it's hard to imagine next year's shortstop having a worse season than Jeter in his final year. Jeter hit .253, at or near the bottom among qualified regulars in the majors in on-base percentage, slugging percentage and OPS, and was at or below replacement level depending on your defensive metric of choice.

Full, healthy seasons out of CC Sabathia and Masahiro Tanaka will also go along way in determining New York's 2015 fate. Sabathia was 3-4 with a 5.28 ERA in just eight starts in 2014, and allowed 10 home runs in 46 innings. He had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee in July, and is expected to be ready for spring training.

Tanaka was brilliant in his first year in the majors, 13-4 with a 2.47 ERA in 19 starts, with 139 strikeouts in 134⅔ innings, but missed two and a half months with a partial tear of a ligament in his right elbow. New York is hopeful the righthander, signed to a seven-year, $155 million contact last winter, can avoid surgery and be ready for spring training.

The Orioles sent the Yankees slim postseason hopes into oblivion with a 9-5 win on Wednesday afternoon. The O's had 15 hits, including four by Nelson Cruz.

There are days where you can't help but remember that beauty is fleeting. All good things must come to an end. Even as you watch something great, in the back of your mind is the omnipresent knowledge that this is finite. The shooting star burns bright before it disappears. The flower wilts in the end. When you see these things, you know that you will never see their like again. Something else great, perhaps, if you're lucky, but never the thing in front of you right at that moment.

Baseball is no different. There are only so many games to be played. For a long time, the idea of something ending in baseball is so far away you don't even think about it, but every game is closer to an end. It sneaks up on you, then suddenly it's almost all over. Should we be sad about it? It is a sad thing. It's also an occasion to remember all of the good things that we've seen over many games.

That end approaches for the 2014 Orioles, the greatest team of my adult life. Even if they go on to win the World Series, in six weeks at most there will never be another 2014 O's game. Many players will remain on the Orioles for longer. This specific team will soon exist only in memory, referred to only in the past tense. Their time dwindles, which is sad. They've been awesome, though, and that's not sad at all.

As they coast along towards the uncertainty of the postseason, there are but a few regular season games remaining. Win or lose, A-list players or not, they've all played a part in this amazing season. Wednesday afternoon, with the game meaning nothing to the Orioles and everything to the Yankees, the O's went ahead and won another game, beating the Yankees, 9-5. The stake is in the heart. The nail is in the coffin. The Yankees are officially eliminated from the postseason.

For the O's, it was another one of those games where they seemed not to show up for the first three innings of the game. They went down in order in the first two innings, then managed to load the bases with two outs in the third inning before Adam Jones grounded into a fielder's choice to end the inning.

They trailed after three by a score of 3-0, with the Yankees touching up Bud Norris for a run in each of the first three innings. A first inning RBI double by Mark Teixeira that found the weak spot in the shift got the Yankees on the board. Stephen Drew added a solo home run in the second inning - yes, really. That was the seventh of the season for Drew. Chase Headley drove one out in the third inning.

That sounds like a struggle for Norris, although he struck out the side in both the second and third innings despite allowing the homers. He didn't look like he would be long for the game, but he ended up going six innings, allowing three runs on five hits and a walk. Norris also struck out nine Yankees batters. A bare minimum quality start, but a quality start nonetheless.

For Norris, that gives him a 5.57 ERA in eight starts in day games this year, compared to a 2.99 ERA in night games. Eight starts isn't a huge sample size, but it's enough to make you wonder if the rotation should be juggled to keep him from starting in the day in the early rounds of the playoffs.

One big inning made the difference for the O's. After getting no traction against Yankees starter Shane Greene over the first three innings, they sent 11 men to the plate in the fourth, scoring six runs on seven hits. Nelson Cruz had two singles in the inning, with Ryan Flaherty, Nick Markakis, David Lough, and Jones all driving in runs.

Jones was hitless in the series (0-12) before he dropped a beautiful bunt down the third base line to score Lough, who had just tripled. The Yankees infield was playing back because there were two outs and of course you play back for Jones. He took what the defense gave him. That's the kind of thing you like to see from Jones. It doesn't have to be all homers to be valuable, Adam.

Speaking of home runs, the Orioles didn't hit any on Wednesday, only the 17th of their 95 wins where they did not homer in the contest. They mostly win with homers, but they can surprise you sometimes.

The O's added another three runs in the eighth inning, still without homering. They loaded the bases with one out, a pair of singles followed by a sacrifice bunt from the ice cold Caleb Joseph, which prompted the Yankees to intentionally walk Markakis to load the bases. Set up the force at any base, I guess. It was a nice theory, but it didn't work out for New York. Lough drove in a run with a sacrifice fly. Jones and Cruz added RBI singles to put the Orioles up 9-3.

Insurance runs proved important as the O's engaged in bullpen tomfoolery in the eighth inning. It took four pitchers to get three outs. Brad Brach surrendered a foul pole homer to Teixeira after Headley reached with a single, bringing the Yankees deficit down to 9-5. Two more men reached, putting the tying run on deck, before Darren O'Day closed the door on the inning by getting Chris Young to ground out. He ran the count full before getting it done. Nothing comes easy.

Well, except for the ninth inning, when O'Day sent the Yankees down in order to bury them for the season. Because the tying run was on deck when O'Day came into the game, he got a save, his fourth of the season. Norris improved to 15-8, while Greene fell to 5-4.

In all, the O's had 15 hits. Cruz had a four-hit game, with Flaherty, Jones, and Kelly Johnson also having multi-hit games for the team. They went 5-10 with runners in scoring position as a team. Good way to win a game.

With the win, the O's are 16-7 in September and 13-5 against the Yankees on the season. They'll be back for one more game in the Bronx on Thursday night, with a scheduled 7:05 start time, although rain is in the forecast and it could be delayed late into the night if necessary. Kevin Gausman and Hiroki Kuroda are the probable starters.

Only four games left in the regular season, plus whatever they play in the playoffs. Enjoy them while they last. Soon, this year will be only a memory. Hopefully it's a championship memory.

That's all, folks

At long last, it's over. It has felt like the Yankees were hanging onto the ledge for a while, threatening to drag themselves up over the side and put themselves in playoff contention. They simply never found a way to get over that last hump. Considering the injuries to the pitching staff that left Hiroki Kuroda as the only starter left standing at one point and the ineffectiveness of nearly everyone offensively, maybe it's a miracle that they were able to hold on this long. Coming into today, the Yankees needed to win all of their last five games with Kansas City losing all of their last five to have a chance. Losing today means that what happens from here won't matter.

Today started off promising enough with the Yankees putting up a run in each of the first three innings. Mark Teixeira got the scoring started with an RBI double that scored Chase Headley to put the team on the board. A Stephen Drew solo shot reminded us that miracles do happen in the second inning and Headley clubbed a homer of his own to make the score 3-0 after three innings. Then things fell apart.

Shane Greene, who has been so good for the Yankees this season, struggled mightily in the fourth inning. Six Orioles crossed the plate before the inning was over, putting the Yankees down by three runs so soon after they'd been up by the same amount. Neither team would score again until another rough inning for the Yankees in the eighth in which Chase Whitley and David Phelps combined to give up three more runs to Baltimore. The Yankees would threaten with runners on base, but only managed to push runs across on a two-run Teixeira home run in the bottom of the eighth inning. One base runner needed to reach to ensure that Derek Jeter would get another at-bat, but the Yankees went down 1-2-3 in the ninth to leave Jeter in the on deck circle.

By now you have no doubt heard that tomorrow's forecast for the last home game of the season looks bad. The rain is supposed to start tonight and go basically all day tomorrow. It seems like the chances of getting a game in are pretty bleak, which only matters because tomorrow is the last time to see Jeter play at home before retirement. Michael Kay said during today's game that the game would only be made up on Monday if it is needed for playoff implications. Should the Orioles and Angels be fighting for home field advantage at that point, they'd likely force the game to be played as the deciding factor. If the game does not matter it will not be made up. Today's win puts the Orioles at 95 wins to the Angels' 97, so make of that what you will.

That being the case, today might have been the last game Jeter plays at home in his career. Unfortunately, the Captain went 0-4 with a strikeout at the plate. That's not how anyone wants to see Jeter end his career in Yankee Stadium. Hope against hope that they can find a dry window to play in tomorrow, because you know that they will wait as long as they absolutely can to call the game. The Steinbrenners are probably already bringing in some people to perform anti-rain voodoo on the field immediately after the stadium is cleared.

If tomorrow happens, Hiroki Kuroda will make what is possibly his final start as a Yankee up against Kevin Gausman for the Orioles at 7:05 pm.

This year has been a good year for Yankees prospects, something that has been a long time coming for both the organization and the fans. It's no surprise then that they appear (twice) on Baseball America's list of the top 20 prospects in the Gulf Coast League.

Ben Badler ranked Yankees shortstop and 2014 eye-catcher Jorge Mateo as the fourth-best prospect in the league. Mateo got a lot of attention this year after hitting .276/.354/.397 with 11 stolen bases in only 58 at-bats. He was downed by a wrist injury for a good portion of the season, but it's obvious that he has a lot going for him. Badler describes him as top-flight runner, with good range and a plus-arm, "has plus bat speed with average power potential and solid understanding of the strike zone." With the Yankees forming a new affiliate in 2015, it will be interesting to see if the 19-year-old will be pushed up to an advanced rookie league before getting a shot in A-ball.

The other Yankees prospect to make the list is fellow shortstop Angel Aguilar, at No. 15. Frequenters of the Baby Bomber Recap should be familiar with Aguilar's production in 2014, as he hit .311/.373/.536 with seven home runs in 167 plate appearances. Badler says that the 19-year-old is a good fielder, despite his lack of range, and "with strong hands and wrists, he's able to generate power through his bat speed," making him a potential power-hitting shortstop, if he can stick there.

Obviously, it's very hard to get excited about rookie ball prospects because they're so young and so far away from the majors, but Mateo has really caught a lot of eyes and Aguilar had a really good year, so it should be interesting to at least see what they can do in 2015.

The Yankees first baseman continues to open up his big mouth and say something stupid and it needs to stop

He's done it again. Mark Teixeira has opened his mouth and said something stupid:

Teixeira says he's probably not a 150-game-a-year player anymore #Yankees

— Brendan Kuty (@BrendanKutyNJ) September 22, 2014

After suffering through the amount of injuries that Mark Teixeira has this year, it might be true, but it's still not something fans want to hear, especially from someone also hitting only .177/.278/.287 in the second half. Teixeira hasn't reached 150 games since 2011 and he won't even reach 130 with only a week to go and an injury list this long:

It's mostly been the wrist, but it hasn't only been the wrist. He's getting older and his body isn't holding up like it used to. That's all true, but when you don't really have much going for you anymore, it's best to take a page out of the Derek Jeter Media Guide Handbook and just give some generic answers and say nothing. Instead, he's being stupidly honest and it's coming off like he's accepted his career trajectory and threw up a big ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ on the year and the remainder of his career. It's annoying, honestly. This isn't even the first time he's come out and said something like this.

Back in the offseason, he said some eyebrow-raising stuff, like how it's all down hill from here and that he's not worth the money he makes:

I have no problem with anybody in New York, any fan, saying you're overpaid. Because I am. We all are.

When the season started, he claimed that he'd never physically be the same again after undergoing surgery:

It's never going to be normal. (There will be) a new normal and hopefully it will get stronger. We'll see what that new normal is. Is it hitting the ball in the second row instead of the fifth? Hopefully that's what it is.

Which also led to this gem and the popular PSA Baby Wrist meme:

I'm never going to be the way I was out of the womb. People are like, 'You had surgery, so now you're normal.' It's like, no, that's exactly why you're not normal.

That's extremely, extremely literal and slightly insane to hear from a grown man. It also sounds like an excuse. Here's another he made just last week:

Look, this year was not a year, health-wise, that I was happy about. So (a full offseason training program) will keep me healthier and that's going to improve performance, no doubt.

He claims that a full offseason of training will make it less likely that he will pull a hamstring in August. He's officially lost me now that he's changed his story. Shaun already touched upon this, but it bears repeating: You're just getting old.

It seems that Mark Teixeira has become increasingly more outspoken about being terrible the worse his contract looks. Sometimes it's ok to say nothing. It's ok to emulate Derek Jeter during a media scrum. Teixeira isn't lying, he isn't making stuff up, but he needs to stop talking. Someone needs to advise him that nobody wants to hear the crushing reality that he sucks, he's going to get older and worse, and his contract is going to be stupid. Especially when he's using that reality as some kind of bizarre excuse. We all already know these things, don't rub it in our faces. It's no wonder his Foul Territory videos have become increasingly less endearing the less games he plays and the lower his batting line falls.

Derek Jeter has only one more game left to play in Yankee Stadium. It has been quite a ride on route to this moment. Seeing it has made me miss the old Yankee Stadium that much more.

On Thursday, September 25th 2014, Derek Jeter will play his final game at Yankee Stadium as shortstop for the New York Yankees. As of the time this article is being written the cheapest seats available are going for three hundred dollars. Those seats are in Section 239. For those that don't know the layout of the new Yankee Stadium, that section is in the left field bleachers right next to the monstrosity that is Mohegan Sun Sports Zone. Seats in this section of the stadium normally go for anywhere between five to twenty dollars, due to the Sports Zone's wall which blocks visibility of right field. This debacle of a design is one of many reasons why I don't like calling Yankee Stadium III "The House that Jeter Built." Between the Mohegan Sun Sports Zone and the dungeon that is Monument Park, it wasn't built all that well. Sometime next year, Derek Jeter's number and plaque will reside in said dungeon, with the giant Steinbrenner Face out there looking over it awkwardly. After the past three days of attending this final homestand between the Yankees and the Orioles, it really made me nostalgic for Yankee Stadium II. That was the House that Jeter built. Or rather, that was the house that Jeter filled.

What I remember most about the old stadium was the sound of the crowd during the dynasty era. It was unmistakable and it was loud. It was powerful and it was a pleasure to be apart of. You could hear it so clearly during the 1996 World Series that NBC had to try and mute out some 57,000 Yankee fans chanting their mock tomahawk chop "F$%K THE BRAVES" chant in perfect unison. It is such a stark contrast to what we see at the new Yankee Stadium nowadays, except for this final homestand. When Derek Jeter comes to the plate, the entire crowd rises from their seats and chants his name loudly. It is an emotional reminder of what once was, as well as a harsh reminder of what comes next. After Thursday, we will not see Derek Jeter take the field anymore in Yankee Stadium. The next time you see him will be for the Monument Park ceremony and after that... Old Timers Day.

Let that thought sink in for a moment. Derek Jeter playing in an Old Timers Day game.

What comes next is a Yankees team that has someone other than Derek Jeter playing shortstop. If you read the comments in this article by Andrew, a lot have fans have never seen a Yankees with someone other than Jeter playing shortstop. I've been a fan since the mid 80's and it's hard for me to remember who played shortstop for the Yankees before Derek Jeter. That's the kind of impact he had. It wasn't just the offense, nor the magical Jeter moments that always pop up on any "Top 10 Jeter moments" list. It was the entire package. The man, the myth, the legend, and the rings. This has been an overall brutal season for the Yankees, but as a fan it is hard not to get swept up by all of this.

During this retirement tour, we've heard all about what Derek Jeter has meant to the game of baseball during his heralded career. The gifts have been presented. The commercials have been watched. The tour has been analyzed from just about every single angle and narrative. We've heard about it from those that love the tour to those that are sick of it. There will be more discussions about it afterwards, when the Yankees 2014 season comes to an end very shortly. Derek Jeter's performance this year will be judged accordingly, as will the notion of having a 40 year old shortstop a year removed from baseball bat 2nd in the lineup and play as much as he did. The talks will continue, but let's focus on the here and now. Let's focus on this final homestand.

As was mentioned earlier in this article, attending this final homestand these past three days has really made me nostalgic for Yankee Stadium II. That was my baseball home for the majority of my life. That is where I grew up watching my favorite players, players like Don Mattingly and Bernie Williams, play for my favorite team. I always took the 4 Train to the game so I could press my face against the window to see Yankee Stadium, my stadium, as the train came out of the tunnel. Now whenever the 4 Train comes out of that tunnel, all that's there is a field of grass where my old home use to be. Walking past that blank field of grass to get to Yankee Stadium III, you can see the big bat in the distance. It was always the best place to meet up with people before heading inside. Now it just serves as a memory of what once was.

That's what Derek Jeter represents to me personally. He was never my favorite Yankee growing up. Bernie Williams was. Bernie Williams was the Yankee who heralded the rise of the dynasty for me, much more than the "core four" ever did. Derek Jeter, to me, represents the big bat in the distance. He serves as a memory of what once was in Yankee Stadium II. The incredible run that saw the Yankees win four World Series Championships in five years. The roar of the crowd and the thunder of the cheers. It was the first time I saw my stadium, my baseball home, filled to the absolute brim with fans who seemed as passionate as I was about the Yankees, frontrunners or not. Derek Jeter represents a much better time in the Yankees' history. He represents a time I will never forget and will always appreciate until the day I die. A lot of people have commented on how this retirement tour made them feel over the year. Uncomfortable, nostalgic, grateful, and so on. My final thought on Derek Jeter's retirement tour is this:

Every fan base deserves to see a Derek Jeter retirement tour because every fan base deserves a Derek Jeter.

That may sound like some supreme arrogant Yankee fan talk, but it comes from someone who is a baseball fan. Derek Jeter is a very unique player in that he came up his rookie season and the team he played for went on to have one of its most successful tenures ever. That's what seeing Derek Jeter in pinstripes represents to a lot of people, and now Yankee fans are saying goodbye to that tenure. Jeter is the last bastion of that incredible era, an era that might not be repeated for a long time. Yesterday, the Pittsburgh Pirates clinched their 2nd playoff birth in a row. Hearing the crowd at PNC Park reminds me of Yankee Stadium II during our incredible run. Andrew McCutchen can hopefully be Pittsburgh's Derek Jeter. Not in terms of Jeter the player, but primarily what that player represents in the future to Pirate fans growing up in PNC Park. I hope that McCutchen continues to have an incredible career and stays in Pittsburgh until he retires.

I hope Pirate fans experience with Andrew McCutchen what Yankee fans experienced with Derek Jeter. I hope every fan base can have someone of that magnitude on their team. A superstar they can see play their entire career wearing one uniform. A superstar they grow up with and see championships with, because you never forget those moments. You never forget the first World Series you see your team win. You never forget the cheers, the roar of the crowd, and the atmosphere of your stadium during that time. You never forget the players and superstars that helped bring that championship home. Every fan base deserves to see that. Every fan base deserves a Derek Jeter.

Tomorrow, Yankee fans say their final farewell to the last player of that era. We say goodbye to the last player who played during one of the best times to be a Yankee fan. For me, I say goodbye to the last player who represents growing up in Yankee Stadium II. I do not know if I'll see or hear anything like I did in the first stadium I called home ever again. The atmosphere has changed. The roar is now rare. My old home has been torn down and replaced with what you see now. However, during this final homestand of 2014, when Derek Jeter came up to bat, I was reminded of what once was. I was reminded of my first baseball home. Everyone standing. Everyone cheering. Yankee Stadium II was where the best memories of Derek Jeter come from. That was the house that Jeter filled.

Next year, someone else will have to fill this new home of ours. It will hopefully be a team effort, just like it was back during the dynasty era. However, that someone will most likely be Derek Jeter when they announce the date of his number retirement ceremony.

The 27-year-old was recently designated for assignment.

The Pittsburgh Pirates have claimed right-hander Chaz Roe off waivers, per MLB.com's transaction page. Roe had been designated for assignment by theNew York Yankees on Sunday as a result of Masahiro Tanaka's return from the disabled list.

Joining the Pirates, Roe has now been a part of three organizations this year, beginning the season with the Miami Marlins before being acquired by the Yankees on August 31st. The 27-year-old Roe has made just three appearances in the majors this season, but had a 3.66 ERA, 10.1 K/9, and 3.0 BB/9 in 64 innings at Triple-A New Orleans. Roe spent a significant amount of time in the majors in 2013, making 21 appearances with the Arizona Diamondbacks, notching a 4.03 ERA, 9.7 K/9, and 5.2 BB/9

Roe will take the roster spot of right-hander Charlie Morton, who was placed on the 60-day DL with a sports hernia. Morton had a solid campaign with the Pirates this year, posting a 3.72 ERA, 3.72 FIP, and 1.3 WAR in 157.1 innings pitched.

It's About the Money | Brad Vietrogoski: An early look at what the Yankees could look like in 2015.

New York Daily | Mark Feinsand: The only way the fans can properly say goodbye to Derek Jeter is if his final home game is meaningless.

NJ.com | Brendan Kuty:Brandon McCarthy talks about his time with the Yankees and how he is open to a return.

New York Post | Ken Davidoff: After the sendoff Mariano Rivera got, it's going to be difficult for Joe Girardi to come up with the right way to say goodbye to Derek Jeter.

LoHud | Chad Jennings: Joe Girardi defends batting Derek Jeter second over the entire season.

The Wall Street Journal | Daniel Barbarisi:Chris Young on adjusting to life as a Yankee.

CBS New York | Sweeny Murti: David Ortiz, Dustin Pedroia, David Price, and other opponents talk about Derek Jeter.

Pinstripe Pundits | Chris Mitchell:Derek Jeter's top five games in 2014, according to Win Probability Added.

His farewell tour has been tiresome, but in calling it quits, Derek Jeter made just the right decision at just the right time - as usual.

In February, when Derek Jeter announced that 2014 would be his last MLB season, I must admit I was kind of bummed. It wasn't that I thought the Captain was leaving too soon, or that I wasn't ready to find out what a post-Jetertian Yankee era would look like. It was more that the thought of another retirement lap a year after Mariano Rivera spent a season saying goodbye too many times and in too many ways to count and getting gifts and ceremonies in places like Colorado and Houston, with which he had no meaningful connection, felt more like impending tedium than anything else. It seemed out of character for Jeter, a much bigger name than Mo among pseudo-fans, to artificially seek out more attention than what he already gets. Jeter's sayonara sojourn would be a repeat of the Mariano world tour, but on a much larger scale, complete with narratives and hyper-analysis galore. Was he doing the right thing? Would he become a distraction? Would there be too much done to honor him? Not enough? Face of baseball. Overrated. Leader. Selfish. Clutch. Intangibles. We knew heading in that 2014 was going to be about a lot more than just baseball.

Jeter's goodbye hasn't been received as well as Rivera's was. Maybe it's that Mo was still near the top of his game till the very end, while Jeter's been well...far from that. Maybe it's that he's always had his share of detractors, but something's different. Jeter's gotten incredible support from opposing fans and players, but there's also a ‘been there, done that' feel that's lingered...the gifts from other clubs haven't been as creative, the scrutiny over what's appropriate and what's not has been more present and the Captain himself seems less comfortable with the whole to-do. The Yankees have been criticized for catering too much to the spectacle in their refusal to play him at shortstop less or drop him from the second spot in the lineup and Jeter's somehow taken a hit from some for not stepping up and demanding that those measures be taken. With Rivera the "greatest closer of all time" epitaph was never in dispute, while Jeter's rightful place in history is a riper subject for debate. Even in his final days, we've seen bits like this scathing seven-minute tirade from ESPN's Keith Olbermann.

It's been said several times this year that Jeter's career essentially ended the moment his ankle broke in the tenth inning of game one of the 2012 ALCS. Symbolically, the Yankees' latest run of success, the one that began with a World Series title in 2009 and flowed through three straight playoff appearances after that, also ended that night. In a larger sense, the last two decades of Yankee dominance - seventeen playoff berths, seven pennants, five championships - came to a crashing halt that very second, too. Since that fateful October evening, the Yankees are a middling 166-157, including their three losses to Detroit in games two through four. The guy we're watching now is a kind of zombie Jeter - his ankle buried him in 2013, and he's clawed his way out of the grave this year, but only to plod around in a confused semi-alive state.

No matter what you think of Jeterpalooza, though - whether it's helped you put his magnificent career in perspective or whether you've found it all to be an over-the-top drag - rest assured that it beats the alternative. Imagine what we'd be talking about right now if Jeter's future was still up in the air. The chatter about his position in the order and in the field would be multiplied exponentially. Would the Yankees have done things differently if there was no light at the end of the Jeter tunnel? Would he have been dropped or benched when he had only seven extra base hits on June 1st? When his OPS at the All-Star break was .647? When he hit .207/.226/.261 in August?

Things would be getting worse as the offseason approaches. How would the Yankees react if Jeter decided this winter that he still wanted to play? Would they bow down to sentiment and treat us to another year of zombie Jeets at short? Would they offer him a bench role where he'd have little or no value? Would they ingloriously send him on his way as they did with Bernie Williams and Jorge Posada when their careers reached an end, even knowing that he could possibly sign elsewhere? What if Jeter wasn't sure about coming back? Would his decision hold up the Yankees' offseason? Don Mattingly, the team's previous captain hit only seven homers and posted a 97 OPS+ in 1995. With the singles-hitting Wade Boggs entrenched at third, it was clear the Yankees needed a power upgrade at the infield's opposite corner. Mattingly graciously urged the Yankees to go about their business as he pondered his future - they did, acquiring a budding star in Tino Martinez - but would Jeter do the same?

Jeter has a long history of making decisions that work out pretty well for him. From passing up the University of Michigan to sign with the Yankees a day after his eighteenth birthday, to eschewing free agency in favor of a ten-year extension in 2001, to positioning himself on the first base line as a third cutoff man - you know, just in case - in Oakland that same year, this is a guy who seems to know what's what. Jeter made the correct choice in calling it a career this year and he made the right call in announcing it when and how he did.

We have come to it, at last. Depending on the weather, tonight is the final day that Derek Jeter will play in Yankee Stadium. I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.

Comment of the Game

The topic of discussion today will definitely be if the Yankees and Orioles manage to get in tonight's game, due to the rain. Tanya brings this up in yesterday's game thread, and LTL replies in kind. Or in cruelty. Either way, it's the COTG.

Best GIF of the Recap

NoMahbles wins the BGOTR award for this PSA Classic. As he said in the recap thread,if there was ever a time for this GIF, it's now.

Honorable Mod Mention

Both Waffles & I win the HMM award yesterday, for our one-two punch of honorable comments regarding Tex's honesty.

Best Comments of the Day

Our first couple of COTD awards goes to both NoMahbles and waw. They explain the best way to post on PSA to don fernando, especially if you have nothing substantial to say at any given point.

Two more COTD awards goes to both Helobious and tdannay for their opinions about Tex's honesty regarding his future and everything in between.

Finally, our last COTD award goes to Blanky for finding the humor in Tex's truthful words. Also, she misspelled paid and it will haunt her in this thread just as it did that one.

• With the Yankees now officially eliminated, who are you hoping to see in the World Series?
• Assuming that Boston's gift to Jeter sucks, what was the best gift that Jeter got this year?

As always link us you song of the day!

go yankees go kuroda go jeter

Yep. That just happened.

Anyone with a modicum of a sense of history appreciated the circumstances of the game tonight. Whether you're an Orioles fan, a Yankees fan, or a fan of neither, there's no way you could watch it without knowing what every pitch, every at-bat, every run, every throw meant to the vast vast majority of people who care about baseball. So it was only fitting that in the end, despite the Orioles' best effort to send The Captain away with an L, it was he who got the last laugh.

On offense at least, it was a classic 2014 Orioles game: Nick Markakis and Alejandro de Aza opened the game with back-to-back jacks off of Hiroki Kuroda, putting the Orioles in the driver's seat early. Then the bats went ice cold: after de Aza singled in the third, no one reached base until Nick Markakis walked in the top of the 9th. Then Adam Jones smacked a two-run shot over the wall in left, Nelson Cruz struck out, and Steve Pearce followed with a dinger of his own. These are your 2014 Orioles.

That would've been enough to win the game, on paper at least. But the Orioles' defense, and to some extent the pitching, just wasn't up to the task. Kevin Gausman needed 35 pitches to get out of the first inning. The only solid hit he gave up was a double to, you guessed it, Derek Jeter. But since Brett Gardner had just singled, that double was enough to make the score 2-1. Then Jeter moved to third on a wild pitch in the dirt. He scored when Brian McCann reached first on an error by Kelly Johnson, who bobbled an easy grounder.

That tied it at 2, and there the score remained until the wild seventh inning. T.J. McFarland struck out Stephen Drew but the ball bounced away from Caleb Joseph and Drew reached first easily. Ichiro Suzuki tried hard several times to bunt the runner over, but failed ... and ended up walking. Jose Pirela, called up just a few days ago, did bunt -- and got a perfect one down, making Joseph dive for it so his throw nearly escaped the reach of Steve Pearce.

Bases loaded, nobody out, tie game. Brett Gardner chopped a grounder to Pearce at first base. Pearce was running in and was able to scoop the ball up and fire home for the force-out. One down. Up next was ... yeah you guessed it, Jeter. The Yankee Stadium crowd was on its feet, chanting, hoping for a hit, a walk, something, anything. Buck Showalter brought in Ryan Webb to relieve.

What the fans got was an odd duck of a play. On an 0-1 pitch, Jeter swung hard at a sinker well inside, breaking the bat. I like to think that he was aiming at Jimmy Paredes, who'd shown a slight case of the yips in his throws to first bast earlier in the game. But the ball squibbed out towards J.J. Hardy at shortstop. He gathered it and tossed it to Johnson at second base to start the double play. Only it was a bad throw and Gardner had been off on contact and was sliding in hard. Johnson missed the ball and it rolled into right field, where Markakis was alertly backing up the play.

Two runs scored, and Gardner ended up on third. He'd score one batter later on a sacrifice fly. Suddenly it was 5-2. The Captain had done it again with a ... broken-bat RBI and error by the Orioles normally sure-handed shortstop? Sure, why not. Let's give Jeter this one -- he out-clutched Hardy and, with his calm eyes and steady gaze, willed that ball into right field. Yes.

If that had been the game, fine. But it got even zanier than that. The score stayed at 5-2 until the top of the 9th. Joe Girardi brought in ace closer David Robertson, who may also have been in his final Yankee stadium game, given a) he's a free agent next year and b) what transpired while he was on the mound. Oh wait, I already told you. Walk, dinger, strikeout, dinger. Tie game at 5. It was such an Orioles comeback, to blast two home runs after being dominated by Kuroda all game.

But you know why the Orioles tied the game, right? It was so that The Captain could have his final moment underneath the bright Bronx lights. And have it he did. In the bottom of the ninth, Buck brought in Evan Meek to keep the game where it was -- or to give his old protege a chance at superstardom, I can't be sure which. He also brought in Ryan Flaherty to play third base. Both moves would haunt him, or make him happy he could provide Jeter a scripted walk-off moment: whichever it is, I don't know.

Anyway, Jose Pirela singled to start off the inning. The ball scooted underneath the glove of a diving (or rather, falling) Flaherty. Somebody named Antoan Richardson came in to pinch run. Gardner was up next, and he sacrificed RIchardson to second base. So now here we are (again): tie game, runner in scoring position, and Captain Clutch at the plate.

As I recollect, it was a hanging curveball. Floated right over the plate. You or I probably could have made solid contact with it. Jeter put all of his signature inside-out, opposite-field stroke into it. The ball shot into right-center field, Richardson raced around the bases to score, and that was it. Career (at Yankee Stadium, anyway) complete, legacy secure: Jeter had gone the opposite way for a walkoff RBI.

And the scriptwriter got up from his chair, stretched his tense back muscles, yawned and rubbed his eyes sleepily, and let an easy grin tug at the corners of his mouth. He'd done a good night's work on this, his final masterpiece.

I would like to do one last thing, and that is give Steve Pearce credit for some solid D tonight. At times he seemed like the only one paying attention out there. The 5'11, stocky first baseman had to jump and snare more than a few poor throws from other infielders. Those catches made sure the score wasn't absurd, as there were runners on base when he was doing his glovework.

Tomorrow, the Orioles end the regular season with a three-game set at Toronto. Chris Tillman faces Drew Hutchison.

Man, how about that Derek Jeter? Crazy, right? Definitely the greatest of all time, right? Seriously, what a way to cap off a fantastic career. Walking off his last game in Yankees stadium, absolutely fantastic. Almost like it was scripted and this was just a big movie. Just perfect.

Oh, wait, you wanted to talk about the A’s game? Why? Why would you ever want to do that? There’s tons of good baseball going on right now. Some teams are even in pennant races. Crazy, right? It must be nice to be involved in something so exciting. Man, I’d kill to be part of that.

But you wanted to hear about the A’s game. Man, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

This was one of those games that gives baseball a bad name. I think it’s the greatest sport in the world, bar none. I absolutely am crazy about baseball. But I have friends who absolutely loathe the concept. This is one of those games where you finally get a friend to give the sport a chance. You put it on the TV, get all excited for them to fall in love with the magic of it all, and sit down and watch.

Suddenly it’s the fifth inning, it’s 0-0, neither pitcher is pitching well but somehow is getting out of trouble every time. An hour and a half has passed. Your friend is asleep. You fully understand what goes through trapped animals’ minds before they gnaw their own legs off in order to escape.

After the game you talk to your friend, tell them that it's usually much more exciting than this. They tell you, "Man, I'm just not sure it's for me. If you insist, I might give it another chance." The glazed look in his eyes says otherwise.

This game is specifically why baseball gets a bad rep. This game was unwatchable. This game wasn’t fun, no matter who you were rooting for.

This game was the absolute worst, is what I’m saying.

The reason I haven’t even attempted to recap the game to this point is that there was absolutely nothing to recap. The A’s got runners on. The A’s stranded said runners. Hammel pitched well for 6+ innings. Adrian Beltre hit a walk-off homer in the bottom of the 9th. Woooo. Recapped.

The A’s did manage to score a run, against all odds. In a 1st and 3rd one out situation in the 6th inning, Giovanny Soto came up. Weirdly enough, the catcher put down a perfect squeeze bunt. Weirdly enough, it worked. Brandon Moss came in to score, and the A’s pulled out to a dominating 1-0 lead.

Hammel immediately gave it up, though. A Leonys Martin bunt single, stolen base, and an Elvis Andrus RBI was all it took, and the game was back at square one.

Literally nothing else happened for the rest of the game. Luke Gregerson pitched 1.1 innings, after which he gave up a Beltre dinger for the win. I don’t really fault BoMel for sticking with Greg Lukerson, as his pitch count was low and he was pitching well. But yeah. That was it.

This game was so incredibly uneventful. There’s nothing I can say. Coco Crisp had a fantastic night, going 2-2 with 3 walks. He never scored, because the A’s hate him apparently. Hammel pitched well. Soto got an RBI, I guess.

God, this game was the worst.

In a few weeks, after baseball’s over, you’d kill to watch just one game like this.

Derek Jeter, though, right?

Derek Jeter will play this weekend against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, the final three games of his 20-year Hall-of-Fame career. But he won't play shortstop, the only position in the field the New York Yankees legend has ever known in the big leagues.

"I've only played shortstop my entire career and the last game I wanted to play there is tonight," Jeter told reporters after Thursday night's game.

Jeter went out in style on Thursday night, delivering the walk-off single to win his final career game at Yankee Stadium. It was almost too perfect a moment to end a career, but the Yankees still have three games remaining on their schedule. On the road, in Boston.

"I'll play in some capacity [in Boston]," Jeter told Tom Verducci on MLB Network after the game.

In a rare show of emotion after Thursday night's win, the normally stoic Jeter opened up in a series of postgame interviews.

"This year has been difficult. You almost feel as if you're watching you're own funeral. ... People are giving you well wishes as if you're about to die," Jeter said. "I've appreciated it all, but internally it feels as if part of you is dying, and I guess that's true on the baseball side because it's over with.

"This is all I ever wanted to do and not too many people get an opportunity to do it. It was above and beyond anything I ever dreamt of. I've lived a dream, since I was four-five years old, and part of that dream is over now."

Jeter will likely be designated hitter in any games he starts this weekend in Boston. In his career, he has played 2,673 games at shortstop, 71 at designated hitter, eight as a pinch hitter and one more as a pinch runner.

He said he didn't make the decision to make Thursday his final game at shortstop until after the Yankees were officially eliminated from the postseason on Wednesday. On Thursday, after the walk-off celebration, with players and reporters mulling around on the field in foul territory, Jeter walked back out to shortstop one more time.

"I wanted to take one last view from short," Jeter explained.

In which Paul Johnson turns WR's into CB's.

It's your favorite backup Technical Tidbit writer with you again.

The Yellow Jackets have been working to clean up their special teams play during the week off. Kickoff returns were a bright spot on the team last season, but they have been very underwhelming so far. Of the 15 returns this year, only three have reached the 30-yard line. One of those was the panic-attack-causing return by Broderick Snoddy against Virginia Tech in which he touched the ball in front of the goal line, ran back into the end zone to retrieve it, avoided a Hokie tackle for a safety, and then somehow managed to make it out to the 35-yard line. Jamal Golden hasn't looked as explosive as he was last season, but most of that can be credited to poor blocking by the return unit. Starting position can be a key in close games this team will likely face for the rest of the year, so hopefully it will be figured out.

True freshman Qua Searcy has been getting a look at cornerback this week in practice by the Georgia Tech coaching staff. Searcy was brought in to play receiver, but is buried in the depth chart for now. There's obviously some talent there at corner for him to be getting a look at midseason. He has nice size and was highly recruited out of high school by Clemson, Michigan State, and many others. He's been training at the position that Chris Milton is starting at right now - a guy that was exposed a few times against Virginia Tech. It'll be interesting to see if Searcy does enough to potentially burn his redshirt to provide some depth at secondary.

The Georgia Tech basketball team gained another player on the roster for the 2014-2015 season after Charles Mitchell received immediate eligibility by the NCAA. Mitchell is a bruising forward transferring from Maryland who should provide some nice size and rebounding for the Jackets. Mitchell will cap off a nice string of transfers being brought in by CBG that should give the team some veteran pieces. The key is fitting them together and building chemistry between a lot of guys who have never played together.

The Captain finished off his career at Yankee Stadium on Thursday night in incredible fashion. Derek Jeter has always had a flair for the moment, but he made sure he proved that true in his last moment ever as a player in New York. DJ had an RBI double in the first inning and then capped it off with a game-winning single in the bottom of the ninth for the Yankees after the Orioles scored two runs in the top of the inning to tie it. The finish had a lot of people questioning the credibility of it on social media after the game. In my opinion, it's pretty hard to stage a baseball game. First, telling two guys to hit a home run in the top of the ninth is a hard feat. The Home Run Derby still features more outs than home runs each year. If they did stage that part, Derek Jeter still has to hit a fastball in a spot not defended by nine players and drive in the game-winning run. I'm not cynical enough to believe that, and I have to tip my cap one last time to a guy who has always played the game the right way.

Do you think Qua Sercy could get some playing time at cornerback this season? Did the MLB stage Derek Jeter's last game at Yankee Stadium?

Have a great Friday!