On Opening Day for the 2014 MLB season, there will not be a single player in professional baseball to wear the No. 42 on a regular basis. That's incredible. For the past 16 years, the number has been retired by all teams in the major leagues in honor of Jackie Robinson, who made his major league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on this date 66 years ago.Little did anyone know the impact and legacy of Robinson's debut. He broke baseball's color barrier and set a benchmark for all of sports and ...
In the ninth game of a season that many Yankee fans have already had time to give up on due to the team's age, infirmity and downright unlikeability, the Yanks did something no one saw coming, and no team had ever done before.In the top of the eighth, with New York leading the Baltimore Orioles 5-2, Baltimore's Manny Machado hit a sharp one-hopper to NY second baseman Robinson Cano. Baltimore's Nick Markakis and Alexi Casilla, on first and second respectively, had to hold up to see if Cano would be able to spear the ball on ...
We live in a world with a 24-hour news cycle that renders stories of great importance, as good as yesterday's news after mere hours. The American sports media sure seems focused on the latest and greatest, while the New York sports media seems to pounce on faults and fears with no compunction. So it's no surprise that after the Yankees' slow start to the season last week triggered the usual columns and "Chicken Little" cries that the sky was falling in New York City. This is, after all, the Yankees! They're ...
So I guess the Bombers going 4-1 last week may have calmed the nerves of some New York Yankee fans. But it’s still not a far reach to think the Yankees need to start utilizing their farm system instead of signing veterans in the twilight of their careers. In the second week of the season many of New York’s top prospects were in the action. Here’s a look at how the Yankees’ top ten prospects fared this past week.Begin Slideshow
If you think the New York Yankees look different this year, just wait a while. There's going to be a ton of turnover in The Bronx over the next couple years.We know that the 2013 season is going to Mariano Rivera's last in pinstripes, and he's likely to be followed out the door by Andy Pettitte. The list of Yankees players set to hit free agency after 2013 includes: Robinson Cano, Curtis Granderson, Hiroki Kuroda, Phil Hughes and Joba Chamberlain.After 2014, Derek Jeter will be a free agent and so ...
New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte will have to put his third start of the 2013 season on hold while he battles back spasms, according to ESPNNewYork.com's Matt Ehalt.Pettitte was scheduled to start on Sunday against the Baltimore Orioles, but is now aiming to start sometime early next week, possibly Tuesday or Wednesday against the Arizona Diamondbacks, per Ehalt's report.New York will conclude its current series with Baltimore on Sunday and have an off day on Monday before beginning a three-game home series against Arizona on Tuesday night.Pettitte, who noticed ...
Alex Rodriguez apparently isn't going to take his latest performance-enhancing drug allegations lying down. According to Michael S. Schmidt of The New York Times, A-Rod reportedly arranged the purchase of documents linking him to PED use in a Miami clinic before Major League Baseball could get its hands on the evidence. Here's a series of Schmidt's tweets breaking the news:Never one to shy away from denial, Rodriguez has already released a statement (through representation) denying the report that he sought to cover up this potential scandal by purchasing the Biogenesis of America ...
Buster Posey is going to be a Giant for just about the next decade. He's an icon in the Bay area already, but the good-looking All-American at the important position up the middle on a perennial championship contender has a chance to cement his status.A little bit like Derek Jeter once did.The similarities between the two run fairly deep, actually. Both were drafted in the first round and were supposed to be good. Neither was ever a top-five prospect across baseball, but they both ...
After an embarrassingly cold opening series against the Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees have started to heat up playing the AL Central's Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians. However, some of their players' cold starts have continued throughout their recent offensive outburst, which includes three straight victories of five or more runs. Without one third of their projected lineup in the offseason (they are still missing Mark Teixeira, Derek Jeter and Curtis Granderson), the offensive load has fallen on the likes of players such as Vernon Wells and Travis Hafner, ...
The team is too old, too hurt and too overmatched, yet in spite of those opinions of so-called experts the Yankees have been able to ride blazing starts of some key players to a 4-4 record (one game out of first place in the East).Some of those "hot" players will cool off, but others have the potential to maintain the high level they began the season with.This article takes a look at those Yankees whose stellar play could be the key to a successful run at defending their AL East ...