Archive for December, 2011
MLB Trade Rumors: Yanks Target Mets’ Niese, Add »
Whenever a starting pitcher becomes available, we can expect the New York Yankees to be interested.When it is a 25-year-old starter who is under team control through the 2015 season, you can guarantee the Yankees will be inquiring.That is exactly what happened yesterday when the New York Mets let it be known that Jonathan Niese was available, as [...]
MLB Free Agents: Yu Darvish Posting, New York Yankees »
It feels like it's been a lifetime since the New York Yankees were knocked out of the MLB postseason in October. Since then, it's been a quiet trip to December and nothing since entering the Winter Meetings in Dallas. With the big names on the free-agent market beginning to find their places to sign, the Yankees still find themselves with the [...]
MLB Winter Meetings 2011: Yankees Not the »
UPDATE (10:13 a.m.): According to Tim Brown of Yahoo, the Los Angeles Angels will sign first baseman Albert Pujols to a 10-year deal worth around $250 million to $260 million.Looks like the Angels were the team after all and landed their guy. -------------------------Ah, the "mystery team."A phrase in free agent negotiations that can either [...]
MLB Winter Meetings: Could the Yankees Be the Mystery »
Consider this for a minute.Multiple sources have indicated that a third mystery team is involved in the Albert Pujols sweepstakes, in addition to the St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. ESPN's Jayson Stark wrote the following:"The identity of the reported third team remained unknown. But people within the sport suggested it [...]
New York Yankees: Winter Meetings Overview According »
The Yankees have been conspicuously quiet this week. They won the rights to negotiate with Hiroyuki Nakajima, but since he plays in the middle infield, he likely won't be a factor for awhile. Otherwise, the Yankees have done nothing and have been in very few significant rumors.Of course, this is usually when they come out of nowhere to do [...]
MLB Free Agents: New York Yankees’ Latest Moves »
In their most active days since the offseason began, the New York Yankees are busy positioning themselves to get a deal done, and ultimately to prepare themselves for a 2012 World Series run. They successfully posted the highest bid for Japanese shortstop Noriyuki Nakajima, and have recently placed A.J. Burnett on the trading block with a promise [...]
New York Yankees: 6 Moves the Yankees Should Consider »
Brian Cashman and the New York Yankees have been dead silent at the Winter Meetings in Dallas, Texas but Cashman has said that they have remained active looking for a possible deal. Cashman has said that he will not be stupid or make a move just for the sake of making moves, which makes sense because the Yankees have very promising prospects they [...]
MLB Winter Meetings 2011: Yankees Win Bidding Rights »
Going into Wednesday, the New York Yankees winter had been very quiet.At the baseball winter meetings in Dallas, Yankees GM Brian Cashman had not been very active.However, it looks like he's been very stealth in his move-making.According to Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated and WFAN, the Yankees won the bidding rights for Japanese shortstop [...]
Is Miami’s Hanley Ramirez Emulating the »
Alex Rodriguez would have been the greatest shortstop of all time. He would have left Hanley Ramirez in the dust. The Miami Marlins shortstop, never a team player, continued that tradition when he announced that he would not move to third base. “Hanley doesn’t want to play third base and the Marlins were informed of that,” a [...]
MLB Trade Rumors: A.J. Burnett on Trading Block Means »
If you're a New York Yankees fan, then of course trading A.J. Burnett is a good sign because he won't have to keep hurting the team starting in 2012. It's two years earlier than most of us Yankees fans could hope for. I'm not surprised the Bombers are looking to deal their troubled, overpaid starting pitcher considering other than a strong [...]