Travis Hafner enters tonight’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays hitting .319 with 11 runs, five home runs, 10 RBI and one stolen base through 16 games and 47 at-bats.Can he keep it up? The first thing to be concerned with Hafner is his health. He has played in fewer than 95 games in four of the past five seasons. His high water mark during that span was 118 games. Obviously his inability to stay in the lineup has taken its toll on his numbers. Hafner’s batting average has been ...
The 2013 MLB season is well into its first month, and even though the New York Yankees are exceeding early expectations, some of the team's flaws are already bubbling to the surface.With injuries to key players like Derek Jeter, Mark Teixeira and Curtis Granderson before Opening Day, many had written off the first two months for the club. Prognosticators looked at this as an end to the latest Yankees "era."Yet today, Bronx Bombers fans woke up to the team sitting third in the division with an 11-8 record, just one and ...
Imagine a Major League Baseball trade deadline where the New York Yankees are in Miami Marlins mode: Everything must go.If there ever was a year for it to happen, it's this year....Not that I'm counting on it, mind you.Like, oh, pretty much everyone else, I had my doubts about the Bombers heading into the season. With guys like Derek Jeter, Mark Teixeira, Curtis Granderson and Alex Rodriguez out of commission, the Yanks went into Opening Day looking like a collection of pinstriped impostors.But it turns out that the 2013 Yankees ...
The New York Yankees have so far started to silence some of the doubts and concerns raised after a disastrous offseason and a monsoon of injuries. They're currently 10-8 and only 2.5 games behind Boston in the AL East. But after starting 1-4, they've improved to 9-4, taking series in Cleveland and Toronto and at home vs. Baltimore and Arizona. How have they gotten off to this decent start? Even though it doesn't show up in the stats, the pitching has been able to carry them. Throwers CC Sabathia, Hiroki Kuroda ...
The New York Yankees, as a team, could be considered a big surprise in the early part of the season. Predicted by many to finish at the bottom of the division for the first time in over two decades, the Yankees find themselves in second place, trailing only the rival Boston Red Sox. At 10-7 on the season, the Yankees are doing a fantastic job of fighting through the early part of their schedule without many star hitters. The strength of the pitching staff has come as no surprise ...
Even with their ever-expanding list of injuries, the New York Yankees have seemed to carry out without dipping into their farm system yet this season. Many of the franchise’s best players were in action this week, looking to make enough of an impression to play in the Bronx. But as it has become the usual, GM Brian Cashman and the Yankee front office has strung together a group of veterans to keep the team afloat. How long will the Yankees be able to tread water without bringing up young talent? ...
Nobody plays the game like Derek Jeter does, and regardless of whether you're a Yankees fan, if you're a lover of baseball, you appreciate his approach to the game and the contributions he's made to the Yankee organization and to Major League Baseball.However, when Jeter went down last October during the American League Championship Series with a terrifying ankle fracture, many in baseball wondered how quickly he would recover and if he could come back to full form for his 19th major league season. As difficult as it is to ...
Derek Jeter's reaction to an ankle fracture suffered during the 2012 American League Championship Series was typical of the team captain and 17-year veteran: He was determined to be ready for Opening Day 2013.Of course, as we chronicled during Spring Training, a setback occurred in Jeter's comeback from ankle surgery. There would be no Opening Day for Jeter in 2013. In fact, the inability to do much more than hit and field grounders made it unlikely for the 38-year-old shortstop to rejoin the Yankees before May.On Thursday, that timetable was ...
Over the course of their extensive history, the New York Yankees have often been among the most hated franchises in sports.Boasting 27 World Series victories, the Bombers have inspired many players to step up their games against the Yankees in order to take down the "Evil Empire." Those players include many members of the mid-2000s Boston Red Sox. To be included in the list of most-hated Yankee opponents of all time, however, a player must have either a strong body of regular-season and postseason work that shows dominance over the Bronx ...
The New York Yankees didn't need bad news, but they got it on Thursday. MLB announced a major setback for Derek Jeter:
Derek Jeter had CT scan that revealed small crack in area of previous injury, will not return until sometime after All-Star break. — MLB (@MLB) April 18, 2013
With this setback, the Yankees feel that Jeter will need another two months of healing and rehabilitation, putting his new expected return date at around nine months post-injury. That's not out of the normal range, though Jeter's fracture was not ...