If you've followed the Yankees on even a semi-consistent basis over the past two years or so, you know by now that ownership is mandating that the team payroll gets below $189 million by 2014. This is the magic number that could save the organization $40 million or so in luxury tax penalties, and that's $40 million that Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner wants badly.Between Robinson Cano, Curtis Granderson, Alex Rodriguez, C.C. Sabathia, Derek Jeter and Mark Teixeira, however, the organization is committed to roughly $120 million in salary for 2013. ...
On Sunday night, the 2012 Major League Baseball season officially ended with the Giants winning the World Series.With the baseball year now over, the New York Yankees can concentrate on 2013.As fans, we will all make our wish lists and slide shows of players the Bombers need to get or we would like to see in pinstripes.Ultimately, in the end, it is up to one person who the Yankees bring in, Brian Cashman.The Yankees GM is the architect of the squad and over recent time, he's made a lot of ...
Joel Sherman of the New York Post provided some interesting food for thought in his blog on Tuesday when he offered up the notion of St. Louis Cardinals’ outfielder Carlos Beltran joining the New York Yankees in 2013. Beltran has a year left on the two-year, $26 million deal he signed with the Cardinals last December and is coming off a very solid 2012. Beltran was an All-Star for the Cardinals, hitting .269/.346/.495 with 32 homers and 97 RBI. He helped St. Louis return to the National League Championship Series ...
Since winning the World Series in 2009, the Yankees have yet to get past the ALCS; they have a combined two American League Championship Series wins in the past three years. With the most recent sweep by the Detriot Tigers fresh in the minds of many New York fans, it might be tough to look past their playoff struggles and see what the 2012 Yankees really did. The Bombers won the American League East Pennant with an American League leading 95 wins. They scored the second most runs in baseball ...
After an embarrassing end to the 2012 postseason, the New York Yankees will be looking to upgrade their roster and make another run at a twenty-eighth World Series title. Age was a huge factor in the Yankees laying an egg in this year’s ALCS. This team will have to get younger to stay competitive in a league full of rising young stars. The quieting of the Yankee bats come playoff time is beginning to feel like a perennial postseason phenomenon in New York. This Yankee clubhouse is in need of ...
Fans of the New York Yankees want Alex Rodriguez gone. They don't care where he goes so long as he goes somewhere other than The Bronx.They will not get their wish.I don't doubt that many—maybe even most—Yankees fans already realize this, but it's only becoming more and more obvious as time goes by that A-Rod is going to remain a Yankee in 2013 and beyond. Whether people like it or not, it looks like the Yankees are stuck with their once-great and now horribly overpriced third baseman.How do we know ...
New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi had a “great” phone conversation with slugger Alex Rodriguez last week, according to an anonymous source who spoke with ESPNNewYork.com. According to the source, the call happened Friday. That was the same day CBSSports.com reported that Girardi placed a call to the public address announcer during a postseason game at Yankee Stadium. The call, according to the report, was to request Rodriguez not be named when Raul Ibanez was going to pinch-hit for A-Rod. Instead, Ibanez went to the plate and was announced, but ...
Several bigger names have presented themselves as options to Brian Cashman and the New York Yankees for this offseason, but I've focused on bringing the people a few out-of-the-box options over the past few days.First, I highlighted Joakim Soria as an option at closer if Mariano Rivera and Rafael Soriano decide to leave the organization.Then, I took a look at Brian McCann as a potential upgrade over Russell Martin.I'm here now to do more of the same. This time, I'd like to take a closer look at a potential outfield ...
The New York Yankees head into the offseason with a lot of questions unanswered. Will Alex Rodriguez eventually be traded? What free agents will be signed? Will Joe Girardi lose his job? All of these questions can only be answered by one man—general manager Brian Cashman. But what happens when Cashman’s job is in question as well? He’s been at the forefront of some successful deals like bringing in CC Sabathia and Curtis Granderson. However, he’s also been the head of failed signings as well—the experiments with A.J. Burnett and ...
The World Series is over and that means the MLB offseason is officially underway. The New York Yankees have a ton of decisions to make this offseason, but there are already some clues out there regarding how they will act. Some players on the Bombers roster are as good as gone, while others have earned a spot with the team next season. Let's take a look at some of the latest rumors surrounding the Yankees' offseason plans.Begin Slideshow