The Oakland A's and the Detroit Tigers know they're playing one another in the American League Division Series starting on Saturday. The Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers know they're playing each other in the American League Wild Card game, which will go down Friday night in Arlington.The New York Yankees have no clue who they'll be playing when they begin their postseason run on Sunday. For that matter, they don't even know where they'll begin their postseason run. These things depend entirely on Friday's matchup between the Orioles and Rangers.If the Rangers ...
The New York Yankees are once again AL East Division Champions and the top team in the American League.It has been a long 162 games that saw a double-digit lead in the division slip away and it came down to the final game of the season.Now the Yankees head into the playoffs, playing either the Texas Rangers or the Baltimore Orioles in the ALDS.As they get ready to take on the winner of the AL Wild Card playoff game, we will discuss 10 things that we should look out for ...
He doesn't deserve the AL MVP like I predicted he would back in March, but there is good reason to believe that Robinson Cano just might carry the New York Yankees to a World Series title. Looking back, four of my five "bold predictions" for the 2012 Yankees turned out terribly inaccurate at the conclusion of the regular season. Derek Jeter didn't get dropped in the batting order, he flirted with a batting title. Alex Rodriguez didn't drive in 100 runs—try 57. Michael Pineda certainly didn't come close to 17 wins because he didn't ...
We know right now that the New York Yankees accomplished what every team in the American League sets out to do at the onset of each major league season: Win the division and try and win as many games as possible to secure home field advantage throughout the playoffs.The 2012 Yankees have several flaws and questions in both their lineup and pitching staff, yet for all of the chatter about how this team was going to blow the division and possibly even miss the playoffs, the Bronx Bombers are a ...
It took all 162 regular season games, but MLB postseason baseball is finally upon us, folks.The 2012 MLB playoffs begin with this year's new addition—a Wild Card playoff game between both leagues to determine who advances to the Division Series—on Friday, Oct. 5.The Atlanta Braves will host the St. Louis Cardinals at 5 p.m. ET while the Baltimore Orioles will travel to the Texas Rangers at 8:30 p.m. ET, both of which can be seen on TBS.We have you covered, breaking down every potential Division Series matchup for the 2012 ...
The New York Yankees will be in the postseason again as they won the AL East and will wait for the Wild Card winner to see where they will open the Division Series on Sunday. That means it’s time for what has become an annual question: Will Nick Swisher and Mark Teixeira finally give the Yankees any offensive production in October? First, let’s look at Swisher. The regular season has been a solid one for Swisher. He ended the regular season hitting .272/.364/.473 with 24 home runs and 93 RBI. ...
The New York Yankees have won the American League East title for the 13th time in the last 17 years. That became official on Wednesday, the final night of the season, when the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Baltimore Orioles 4-1 in St. Petersburg, FL. The Yankees will be the No. 1 seed in the American League playoffs after beating the Boston Red Sox Wednesday night 14-2, which means they will be interested observers when the Orioles visit the Texas Rangers on Friday in the inaugural American League Wild Card ...
Having control of your own destiny is an important thing when you're trying to win a division title.Heading into Wednesday, all the New York Yankees had to do was beat the Boston Red Sox and they would be crowned the American League East champions.The Yankees took care of business by destroying Boston in a 14-2 beat-down to wrap up the division, along with securing home field throughout the American League playoffs.The Yankees got their offense going off of Daisuke Matsuzaka when Curtis Granderson jacked his 42nd home run of the ...
It's that time again—October baseball is quickly approaching, and it couldn't come at a worse time for the New York Yankees. Joe Girardi has mismanaged this ball club on numerous occasions, most recently against the Minnesota Twins. Phil Hughes was pitching a somewhat decent game—he had given up one earned run, but the Twins were threatening with runners on the corners and two outs—and Girardi decided to go to the bullpen. He called upon Boone Logan, and although the two runs were charged to Hughes, Girardi's mismanaging is what caused the ...
Give me one good reason Derek Jeter shouldn't be unanimously elected to the Hall of Fame.It has to be a GOOD one, too; none of this, "If (Famous Player X) wasn't unanimously voted in, no one should be" nonsense.That's the refuge of the kind of voter who grew up an ignored middle child or got picked on in high school; call it the Skip Bayless position. We're not aiming very high if we're voting out of spite.Further, let's hear nothing about how playing for the Yankees gives him a publicity advantage. This ...