Rejoice, New York Yankees fans. The Bronx Bombers are back.
They'll take the field Monday afternoon for the first game of the 2015 campaign, and the Toronto Blue Jays are the first test for a team looking to make it to the playoffs after missing out the past two seasons.
The Yankees (like most teams) are ripe with fresh storylines entering Day 1 of the regular season. Just in case you haven't heard, Alex Rodriguez is back. He should be in the starting lineup as the designated hitter. Among a sea of ...
Not all spring training performances are created equal. Yes, exhibition stats don't count, and they don't matter once the games get started for real. But let's be honest: Whatever Alex Rodriguez did (or didn't do) in the Grapefruit League was going to be scrutinized.
At the plate, Rodriguez posted a .267/.377/.489 slash line with three home runs in 45 at-bats. More importantly, he kept his head down and said the right things, avoiding further controversy.
"I've said all along, I thought Alex was going to help us," manager Joe Girardi said on ...
The boys club of professional sports is a smelly, mahogany-lined institution.
Since women started participating in competitive leisure activities, the lodge house of male-dominated athletics has continued collecting cigar smoke under the old roof of a "you can play but over there" non-agreement.
It's a separate, but unequal, arrangement based mostly on fear—fear of product dilution, fear of losing personal space and fear someone could get hurt.
It's these fears that have all but guaranteed we'll never see another moment like Jackie Mitchell's performance in 1931, when the teenage girl struck out Babe ...
A number of hot topics have since taken over Major League Baseball's headlines more recently, including Kris Bryant's demotion, Josh Hamilton's relapse, season-ending injuries to Yu Darvish, Zack Wheeler and Marcus Stroman and Pete Rose's appeal for reinstatement.
But for a moment, think back to the very start of spring training. What was the story everyone couldn't get enough of?
That's right: The return to baseball of the ever-polarizing Alex Rodriguez in the aftermath of his season-long suspension.
Well, it's time to catch up with Rodriguez, his performance this February and March and his role ...
With Opening Day rapidly approaching, the New York Yankees find themselves looking to win their 28th World Series—by far the most of any MLB franchise.
How realistic a goal is that? Well, that's what I'm here to help you figure out.
Over the course of this article I'll give you everything you need to know about the Bronx Bombers in 2015, including previews of the lineup, rotation and bullpen, as well as prospects to watch, predictions for the season's opening series and more.
The Yankees are projected to win 80 games this season, ...
Not long ago, second base for the New York Yankees was as stable, consistent and productive as any position on any team in Major League Baseball. These days, it's anything but.
The keystone has become a key question mark for the Yankees ever since Robinson Cano—the last true star position player the club has drafted or developed—surprisingly up and left for the Seattle Mariners as a free agent in December of 2013.
From 2005, his rookie campaign, through 2013, Cano registered a .309/.355/.504 triple-slash line and averaged just shy of 23 homers and just ...
The New York Yankees' starting rotation troubles me. Not to the point where I lie awake thinking about it at night, but close enough I guess.
There's plenty of reason to be concerned with the group, and each pitcher brings his own unique set of circumstances to fret over.
Because of that, we find ourselves at an impasse. Either the group is what it is, or the front office adds to the rotation in the hopes that it can help carry the team to the playoffs.
To alleviate the issues plaguing the rotation, ...
There's been plenty of hand-wringing about the New York Yankees' starting five, including by yours truly, and it's (mostly) justified.
Masahiro Tanaka is pitching with a partially torn elbow ligament, and CC Sabathia packed on weight after limping through last season with a knee injury.
The Yankees, though, could get a boost from Nathan Eovaldi and Michael Pineda, two young arms who have excelled this spring.
Yes, it's early. And yes, spring stats are close to meaningless. But Eovaldi and Pineda have turned enough heads to give the Yankee faithful cause for cautious ...
And now for something we all ought to be used to by now:
A discussion about whether veteran New York Yankees left-hander CC Sabathia is good at pitching baseballs anymore, which will inevitably skew toward an "I'm not so sure, man" conclusion.
But first, the basics. Sabathia made his 2015 spring training debut Tuesday evening against the Toronto Blue Jays at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida, and he was hit-and-miss. He struck out two without a walk in two innings but also surrendered two earned runs on four hits.
On the surface, ...
The New York Yankees offense is an interesting bunch. The group features immense levels of talent, but question marks pop up throughout the lineup in the form of injury and production concerns.
That said, where there's bust potential, there also tends to be boom potential. This holds true for the Yankees offense as well.
The Yankees will bank on players remaining healthy this year, and if they do, the team could easily surpass what are seemingly modest win-total projections by Baseball Prospectus for the 2015 season.
So the Yankees offense presents us with ...