‘NY Yankees’ Archives
Should the Yankees Consider Benching Mark Teixeira? »
Lets face it, this season, Mark Teixeira has clearly not been the same hitter he was last season. With his staggering batting average now down to .215, and his on base percentage at a lowly .328, he might be best suited for a couple of days on the bench. His struggles were brought back into the spotlight today after an atrocious game against the [...]
Jorge Getting Close To Resuming Catchng Activities »
From Tim Britton : Manager Joe Girardi is hopeful that Jorge Posada can begin working behind the plate in the next week. Girardi has yet to talk extensively about a timetable with Posada and trainer Gene Monahan, but the plan remains to work Posada back into catching shape soon. "It's not like starting over, but it's getting back there," [...]
Phil Hughes Has a Better Cutter Than Mariano Rivera »
After failing in his first attempt in the rotation in 2008, Phil Hughes spent most of last season in the bullpen before he got another chance. Well, Hughes certainly learned a thing or two while he was there. We always knew that Hughes had a good fastball, but before last year he never threw a cutter. He must have had Mariano Rivera help him with [...]
Yankees Notes: Blue Jays, Burnett, Eiland, Laird, »
The Yankees got their first taste of the Toronto Blue Jays yesterday and lost 6-1. Here are some notes: The Blue Jays have been better than expected this season and Brett Cecil and Jose Bautista showed them why. Cecil went 8 strong innings and Bautista homered twice. We’ve seen bad AJ Burnett a lot lately. In his last 6 starts, he is 2-3 [...]
Taking a Look at OPS+ »
Even though I almost always have more pressing things I should be attending to, I can’t help myself from looking through baseball-reference.com’s Yankees page. For today, I thought it would be interesting to see who the Yankees’ best hitters have been. Not defense, not baserunning—just swinging the bat. One of [...]
With Nick Johnson’s Return in Doubt, Keep an Eye »
According to Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated , the Yankees are not confident that 1B/DH Nick Johnson will return at all this season and that they may look to trade for a replacement. Johnson went on the DL almost a month ago with an inflamed wrist. The initial diagnosis was that Johnson would miss at least a month and then possibly need surgery [...]
2010 New York Yankees: Top Five Pinstriped Players »
Since opening day, the number 28 on Joe Girardi's uniform has been looking more and more like a target. Having three starters on the DL last week and being in the thick of a four-horse race in the AL East, the Yankees have their share of teams gunning for them. With Rodriguez and Teixeira still not playing up to their caliber, the Yankees [...]
New York Yankees Report Card: Grading the Offense »
"School's out for the summer." Not so fast, Alice Cooper—the Yankees are just getting their first report card of the year. This list will be how I have graded the Yankee hitters to this point in the season, strictly based on their performance at the plate. While some Yankees have hit some bombs, others have bombed their first test, and [...]
2010 Staten Island Yankees Roster Preview »
The Staten Island Yankees have not yet released a 2010 roster mostly because many of the players that will end up on that team have not been drafted yet. That doesn’t mean that we can’t take an educated guess as to whom is going to be on the team and Robert Pimpsner of Baseball Digest, entering his 8th season on the beat, has done just [...]
Is the 2010 New York Yankees Infield Better Than the »
While the Big Red Machine of the 1970s might have been extremely good, it has nothing on the 2010 Yankees. The Bronx Bombers have put together the best hitting infield of all time, and have done so in an un-Yankees manner. Although the Yankees have earned a reputation for buying their talent, the majority of this currently assembled infield is [...]