Archive for March, 2013
New York Yankees: Could David Phelps Win No. 5 Starter »
Competition always brings out the best in athletes.One of the battles the Yankees will have this spring is for the No. 5 spot in the rotation.The contestants: Ivan Nova versus David Phelps.The last memory fans have of both pitchers was Nova getting removed from the rotation due to an extremely poor second half and Phelps pitching well in just [...]
Breakout Stars from the Yankees’ First Week of »
Seven games into the 2013 Grapefruit League season, three Yankee players have emerged as the stars of spring training as the calendar turns to March. It's important not to weight spring training statistics too heavily, since players are often facing different levels of competition than they normally do in regular season play and are focusing on [...]
Yankees GM Brian Cashman to Fans: Cool Your Jets on »
There are few young players in the New York Yankees organization who are as polarizing among fans as infielder Eduardo Nunez.Some fans love him. Some fans loathe him. There are very few, at least from appearances, which are in the middle on the 25-year-old.The New York Post’s Mike Raimondi wrote Friday morning on his [...]