Archive for March, 2010
Now Playing At Comerica Park: Johnny Damon: The Final »
So the Johnny Damon-Scott Boras good cop-bad cop feature film is over at last. "The Goodbye Boy Part 5" that played in newspapers, blogs and radio talk shows everywhere has finally come to the end of its run in Detroit. Was it an epic saga? A melodrama? A romance? A buddy flick? A little of each probably, but mostly it was a broad farce, and with [...]
Is Nick Johnson Fantasy Baseball Usable? It’s »
Injury after injury after injury. That’s what instantly jumps into my mind when someone asks me what I think of Nick Johnson. How many players have hung around for so long, yet since making his Major League debut in 2001, has only reached 500 AB in a year once? To be fair, that statement is a little misleading. Thanks to an [...]
Why Mauer the Twin Must Die and His Evil Twin Yankee »
I'm no expert. But I know this time next year, Joe Mauer will be a Yankee. For all the warm and fuzzy commentary about Joe Mauer needing to remain a Minnesota Twin for the sake of preserving the hopes of small-market teams everywhere, there is an underlying ominous implication that if he doesn't he will be branded baseball's all-time biggest [...]
HGH Doctor Did Treat Alex Rodriguez »
According to Rob Gillies of the AP, the doctor under investigation in connection to Alex Rodriguez said he treated, but only prescribed him anti-imflammatories and not HGH. Dr. Anthony Galea also told The Associated Press an assistant who was stopped at the U.S.-Canadian border in Buffalo, N.Y., last year was carrying only a minuscule amount of [...]
Goose Gossage Wasn’t Half the Pitcher Mariano »
Baseball Hall of Famer Goose Gossage claimed this past weekend that New York Yankees icon Mariano Rivera is not the best relief pitcher in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB). “I think he (Rivera) is a tremendous relief pitcher,” said Gossage, a nine-time All-Star who played his last game for the Seattle Mariners in 1994. [...]
MLB: Analyzing the Yankees Lineup »
Let’s take a look at the potential for run scoring in this year’s version of the Yankees lineup. We’ve done this in the past, even a couple of times this offseason, but now that spring has started and we have a better idea of what their lineup will look like let’s do it again. For this lineup projection I’ve used [...]
Jermaine Dye Might Interest Yankees if Nick Johnson Is »
Nick Johnson returned to the Yankees lineup today as the DH and went 0-for-2 with a walk and told reporters after the game that “Things feel fine. No grabbing. No nothing. I loosened up before. Felt nothing.” That’s good news for the Yankees, who no doubt cringed when they heard that he tweaked his back last week. It might not [...]
More Tests Coming for New York Yankee Catcher »
According to George King of the New York Post , after seeing the team doctor yesterday, Yankees backup catcher Francisco Cervelli plans to meet with a neurologist this afternoon. Cervelli is recovering from a concussion he sustained after being hit by a pitch in the head the other day. “I talked to him and he said he felt good,” [...]
With Ian Kennedy, Did the New York Yankees Give Up Too »
The Yankees drafted Ian Kennedy in the first round of the 2006 draft, and by the end of the 2007 season he was not only pitching in the majors, but over three starts he was pitching brilliantly. He pitched so well, in fact, that it earned him a spot in the 2008 rotation coming out of spring training. Kennedy struggled in the big leagues that year [...]
The New York Yankees Had to Trade Roger Maris »
Geoff Britches remembers when his St. Louis Cardinals acquired the services of Roger Maris prior to the 1967 season. He responds to a recent article whose position is that the New York Yankees should not traded Roger. Roger Maris Would Not Play for the Yankees Roger Maris would not have returned to the New York Yankees after the [...]