Home run feats have become a norm in Alex Rodriguez's career and on Friday night he reached yet another. In the top of the fifth, with Derek Jeter on base, A-Rod connected on a 1-2 pitch sending the ball well over the wall in left center at Camden Yards. The homer was the Yankee third basemen's 16th of the season and was his 300th in pinstripes. By reaching that milestone he became only the sixth Yankee in team history to join that 300-homer club. You may have heard of the other members. ...
The New York Yankees are falling hard, and they don't have much time left to get back up. With 25 games left on their schedule, the team needs to make some changes quickly if they want to save their season.In a league that has seen many collapses in recent years, the Yankees are struggling to keep their name off of that fateful list. The team has lost 11 of their last 16 games and have seen the Orioles catch them in the AL East division.Worse yet for the Bronx Bombers, ...
Mark Reynolds can play multiple positions and hit for power, but the $11 million the Baltimore Orioles would owe him could make him trade bait or, more likely, a free agent. Mark Reynolds finished the final guaranteed year of his three-year contract and would make $11 million next season, but the year is a club option and his $500,000 buyout means there is a good chance he will become a free agent. Reynolds has not had an impressive season by any standards. He currently has 20 home runs and 58 RBI with a ...
The New York Yankees current lineup consists of many great players, but chances are most of them won't be enshrined in the Hall of Fame.It takes a special class of player to qualify as such, and while there are some players on this team who certainly fit the bill, most do not.Let's take a look at the 10 best hitters in the Yanks current order and which of them will find their way to Cooperstown when it's all said and done.Begin Slideshow
We all know about the plan.I call it the "$189 million plan" that the Yankees are attempting to get their payroll down to by 2014.And for the last couple of seasons, the Yankees have gotten away from throwing big money at free-agent players and have worked with a budget going after veteran players.For the most part, it has worked because the Yankees were winning and getting to the playoffs.However in 2012, getting to the postseason isn't a guarantee as it once used to be. Not when the Yankees have been ...
The Yankees are on the verge of an epic collapse, the worst regular-season meltdown in the storied 110-year history of the franchise. At the end of play on July 18, the Yankees found themselves 10 games in front of the Orioles and 10.5 in front of the Rays in the AL East. They were cranking up the presses to print playoff tickets. Instead, they seem to be cracking under the pressure. Since that high-water mark, the Bronx Bombers have played more like the Bronx Bumblers, ...
Since the start of the 2011 MLB season, no player has hit more home runs than New York Yankee Curtis Granderson. Granderson continues to slug at an impressive clip, though he's fallen off somewhat from the tremendous power display he put on in the Bronx last season.With a lightning-quick, crisp, compact swing tailor-made for Yankee Stadium's short right porch, Granderson has electrified the crowds in the Bronx with his booming shots. He even evoked memories of a Yankees legend, Reggie Jackson, earlier this season on April 19th when he socked three homers into the right-field ...
For 84 days, the New York Yankees sat atop the AL East division standings alone. For nearly three months, the Bronx Bombers enjoyed a comfortable cushion which grew as large as 10 games. And then it vanished. The team's longest streak atop the standings since 2004 was snapped on Tuesday evening, when the Baltimore Orioles moved into a tie for first place following a 12-0 thumping of the Blue Jays. A combination of untimely injuries, subpar starting pitching and the complete absence of clutch hitting left Yankee fans in utter disarray. ...
The Tampa Bay Rays need some help this week from the Baltimore Orioles, preferably a sweep of the New York Yankees. The Rays currently sit 2.5 games behind the Yankees in the AL East. They are also 1.5 games behind the Baltimore Orioles as well as the Oakland A’s for the wild card. Obviously, the first order of business for the Rays is to win their series against the Rangers. Provided they are able to win their series, the next best possible outcome would be the Orioles defeating the Yankees. ...
"Rebuilding" is not a word that is typically used to describe the New York Yankees. In most years, or more like most decades, they have a bevy of stars that have come up through the system. They also have baseball's largest payroll, which is to say that they can hire the additional stars that they need.The result is that the Yankees win a lot. More so in the regular season than in the offseason. Which is why they draft late in every round most years and seldom get "first dibs" ...