Are heads going to roll in the Bronx after the New York Yankees not only didn't make it to the World Series, but were demolished in a four-game ALCS sweep by the Detroit Tigers?That certainly seems to be the expectation. Losing in the playoffs is one thing, but virtually every prominent offensive player—and the Yankees have many of them—put up a feeble effort at the plate, making an already formidable Tigers pitching staff look unstoppable. (Maybe they are unstoppable.)So, how are the Yankees going to respond?Will principal owner Hal Steinbrenner ...
After one of the most disappointing showings the New York Yankees have ever had in the postseason, the speculation of what the offseason will bring in the Bronx is in full force, with the situation regarding Alex Rodriguez getting much of the attention.Rumors of a potential trade to Miami first reported by Keith Olbermann have been making their rounds, and while there doesn't appear to be anything to them, that doesn't mean that a move couldn't happen.Rodriguez has a full no-trade clause and it sounds like he'd exercise it if ...
The New York Yankees wasted no time preparing for 2013.Just 24 hours after the Bombers were eliminated by the Tigers in the 2012 ALCS, they've already made their first move for 2013.According to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports, the Yankees will exercise their $13 million team option for the 2013 season on center fielder Curtis Granderson:
#yankees will pick up the $13M option on granderson's deal for 2013. easy call there, despite postseason struggles.—Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) October 19, 2012
Granderson hit .232 with 43 home runs and 106 RBI in the regular season for ...
It's no secret as to why the New York Yankees were swept by the Detroit Tigers in this year's American League Championship Series.The Yankees offense was historically atrocious. In the 268 completed postseason series prior to this one, only 19 teams averaged fewer than the 1.5 runs per game scored by the Yankees.Also, their .188 team batting average in the entire postseason was the worst ever for a team that played in at least seven postseason games.Yes, that's right—the worst.It's really unfair to blame individual stars, as the whole offense underperformed.Even ...
Give Alex Rodriguez some credit, he has steel cojones. Despite another season of intense scrutiny, A-Rod has confirmed that he'll still be a New York Yankee when the 2013 MLB season opens.Brave? Yes. Smart? That's an entirely different matter.Rodriguez is set to make $28 million next year at the getting-up-there age of 37. That's a lot of money for a man who rode the pine when the Yankees season was on the line.He could have agreed to waive his no-trade clause and allowed the team to ship him off to ...
Alex Rodriguez has been maligned unlike any other MLB player. But rather than generalizing the superstar's inability to perform in the postseason, I'll review each of his October contributions since joining the New York Yankees in 2004.The following power rankings order his eight pinstriped playoff appearances, which vary in quality from excellent to brutal. You'll see that it's pretty skewed toward the latter, as A-Rod has frequently underachieved under the brightest lights.Begin Slideshow
The New York Yankees season is over following their disastrous performance in the 2012 ALCS against the Detroit Tigers. They never led for a single inning, were shut out in 36 out of 39 innings and saw the entire offense, with the exception of Ichiro Suzuki and Eduardo Núñez, collapse. They only scored a single run by a method other than a home run in the entire series.It was a complete and utter domination by the Tigers' pitching staff.The Yankees have recently faced bad postseason defeats. The agony of the ...
There's no way trading Alex Rodriguez works out well for the Yankees. It's not possible. Not in today's league. The typical Yankee fan assessment of a Rodriguez sounds like this: "Ahkay, lissen. Get ridda A-Rod. He's a bum. Give him to Miami or Chicago or, I don't care, freakin' Pawtucket, but get dis bum outta my pinstripes. He's a choker. He's terrible. I don't care what we gotta do."Except, New York, you do care what you gotta do, because what you gotta do to get rid of him is worse than keeping ...
The best thing to happen to the Yankees this postseason was getting swept in four games by the Tigers. The Yankees today won’t be able to fool themselves, talk about one missed play or one bad pitch that changed the series for them. Based on how poorly they hit this postseason, they were fortunate enough to advance this far. Yankees GM Brian Cashman won’t be deluded into thinking the Yankees are just one player away from winning it all. In fact, he might decide it's time to blow up the ...
Despite the New York Yankees' third trip to the ALCS in four years, this 2012 offseason will be bitter for the players and fans as they ponder what went wrong with the team's bats after their sweep at the hands of the Detroit Tigers when they scored just six runs in four games. One of the disappointments was Robinson Cano, who had a career year (his 33 home runs and .929 OPS were career highs) and finished the season with a .527 average in the final 12 games but went ...