New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman economically replaced his injured stars prior to Opening Day and kept the 2013 team in contention with—to put it gently—declining veterans.
Cashman signed Travis Hafner and Kevin Youkilis to fill the voids at third base and designated hitter, while Alex Rodriguez rehabbed from hip surgery. He obtained Vernon Wells from the Los Angeles Angels when Curtis Granderson went down with an injury in spring training. New York also signed Lyle Overbay as a body to put at first base while Mark ...
The 2013 Yankees have totaled six more runs in one fewer game than the Houston Astros. In case you're wondering, the Houston Astros are the worst team in the American League–-by a long shot. New York's brilliant pitching has propped them up all season long but they can only do so much.In fact, they can allow two earned runs over 17 innings to one of the top teams in baseball yet find no relief from a team full of sluggers and former all stars who inexplicably cannot buy a hit ...
The New York Yankees have proven many doubters wrong this season by being above .500 through the middle of June.In reality, however, there is only one player on the Yankees' roster who is proving his worth and keeping a reeling Yankees' offense afloat.Brett Gardner has had to deal with injuries and underestimations throughout his entire career.Early on he had to battle for playing time and the chance to earn his keep.Once he was thrust into a everyday, starting role in 2010, the whispers were that Gardner was nothing more than a ...
The New York Yankees lost again in Oakland on Thursday afternoon.Well, technically, they lost in the evening. The game started in the afternoon, but ended up being an 18-inning marathon that the eternally pesky A's won 3-2 when Nate Freiman got just enough of a Mariano Rivera cutter for a walk-off single.Whatever it was, you can tell just by looking at that score that it was another rough day for the Yankees' offense. They had their chances, but they left 14 runners on base and the only hit they got ...
The Bronx Bombers have been anything but lately.The New York Yankees are in the midst of what is, for them, a rather lengthy power outage:That tweet, from WFAN 660's Yankees beat reporter Sweeny Murti, came Wednesday night...before New York again went sans homer against the Oakland Athletics.Entering play Thursday, the Yankees have gone homerless in five straight games for the first time since 2006."That's too much. We're the Bronx Bombers," Mark Teixeira said, per Bryan Hoch of MLB.com.Incidentally, Teixeira is the last Yankee to hit one out, which he did last Thursday—exactly a ...
The New York Yankees currently have a full rotation, Ivan Nova in the minor leagues and Michael Pineda on a rehab assignment. On the surface, it wouldn't appear as if they need any more starting pitching.That being said, the unreliability of Phil Hughes and the question marks surrounding Nova's inconsistencies and Pineda's shoulder have led them to Miami Marlins starter Ricky Nolasco.Nolasco, a free agent after the season, could be just what the Yankees need to solve some of their potential issues at the back-end of the rotation.Jayson Stark of ...
During a season unlike any other in the Bronx, the New York Yankees can surprisingly still claim a handful of players deserving of all-star appearances. A plethora of unforeseen injuries has hindered the team's progress thus far in 2013, but the Yankees remain in contention for the AL East division title more than a third of the way through the season. No longer will names like Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter help New York compose three-quarters of the American League infield at the All-Star festivities. The days of Yankee dominance at the Midsummer ...
The New York Yankees front office wasted no time in signing the No. 26 overall pick (their first selection of the first round), third baseman Eric Jagielo.Jim Callis of Baseball America reports, via Twitter, that Jagielo's signing bonus will be $1,839,400—the exact amount of the assigned pick value for that selection in the draft. A list of slot recommendations can be found here.Jagielo becomes the fifth first-rounder to sign with their major league clubs, while also becoming the first college player to be taken (and signed) by the Yankees since ...
The New York Yankees have won five of Phil Hughes' last six starts versus the Oakland Athletics, which is important to consider when making your MLB picks on Wednesday as the two teams continue a three-game series at the O.co Coliseum.Sports bettors will find that the Yankees are plus-115 road underdogs in the pro baseball odds, courtesy of SBR Forum, while the total sits at 7.5 in the market.Let's take a closer look at this American League matchup from a betting perspective, while offering up a prediction along the way.Begin ...
New York Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano is once again captaining the American League team for the Home Run Derby at Citi Field next month. While he has a wealth of power hitters to choose from, one player who won't be on his team is Kansas City Royals DH Billy Butler. In case you forgot last year's infamous derby, Cano was also captain of the AL team in Kansas City and didn't pick Butler to be on the team. The biased crowd let the Yankees star hear it when he stepped ...