When Ichiro Suzuki was traded to the Yankees on July 23, it seemed like he had New York in the palm of his hands. The deal made perfect sense because of Brett Gardner's injury. In addition, Suzuki was made aware of some conditions he would have to accept that included sitting against lefties, and batting lower in the lineup. Since joining the Yanks, here is where Ichiro has been hitting in the Yankee lineup: Ninth: three timesEighth: 16 timesSeventh: two timesLeadoff: one timeSince joining the Yankees, the greatest leadoff hitter in Seattle ...
The Yankees enter a new week with a five-game lead over the surging Tampa Bay Rays. At times, it seems like the Yankees season couldn't go any better, but at the same time it feels like it couldn't be unluckier.The Yankees have been plagued with the injury bug this season. Key players such as CC Sabathia, Andy Pettitte, Nick Swisher, Mariano Rivera and Alex Rodriguez have spent time on the disabled list. Also, outfielder Brett Gardner and starting pitcher Michael Pineda were shut down early in the season.But for every injury the Yankees have suffered, someone has ...
As the 2012 regular season is getting closer toward its end, the New York Yankees have recently been without two of their most important bats.Alex Rodriguez, who has been out since July with a broken hand, and Mark Teixeira, who has been dealing with a nagging wrist injury that has kept him out of the games against the Boston Red Sox.Despite not having A-Rod and Teixeira in the lineup, the Yankees have continued to maintain their spot in first place in the American League East.A lot of that can be ...
Wow! What an exciting time for baseball, as these last 6 weeks will be about as competitive as ever.The New York Yankees are back on the top again this week because despite all their injuries, most recently to ace CC Sabathia, this team is still winning. The Bronx Bombers went 3-1 vs. the Texas Rangers this past week, and were the first AL team to hit the 70-win mark.The Reds are playing awesome baseball sans Joey Votto; the Dodgers are looking to break away in the NL West on the heels of the SF Giants losing Melky Cabrera.More teams are contending in 2012 ...
The first-place Texas Rangers, who have reached the World Series in each of the past two seasons, haven't played quite as well as in the previous two seasons.Still, they added some rotation depth at the trading deadline with Ryan Dempster, and they seemed to have weathered a major slump from Josh Hamilton. On August 13th they were 67-46, had won seven of their last ten games, and were 6.5 games in front of Oakland for the AL West division lead. Then, they came to New York. Four games against the Yankees proved ...
For a guy who was supposed to be washed up as recently as last season, Derek Jeter is having a solid year in 2012. The New York Yankees' ageless shortstop is hitting .320 with an MLB-high 159 hits.It's not all roses, though. Jeter is essentially just a singles hitter at this point in his career, and he rates as the worst defensive shortstop in baseball as far as the advanced stats are concerned (see FanGraphs).There's also the reality that the clock is ticking on Jeter's career. Jeter will likely be ...
I'm always disgusted when I hear someone say that "they're a New York fan," or that they root for both New York baseball teams. It tells me they're not a hardcore fan of either team, Ask any Mets fan if he roots for the Yankees, and he'd probably tell you he'd rather have a root canal.Ask any Yankees fan if he roots for the Mets and it's like asking my toddler if he'd share his toys with the neighborhood bully. Neither one is realistic and it's not happening! That being said, ...
The question in 2011 for the New York Yankees pitching rotation was: Where would they be without Freddy Garcia? The answer, as we found out, was likely on the outside of the playoffs looking in.Instead, that Yankees team won the American League East division crown. Fast forward to the second half of the 2012 baseball season, and the Yankees are asking themselves the same question once again. The easy, steady veteran's splitter danced and dived for six-and-two-third innings on Wednesday night, to help the Yankees earn a 3-2 win and ...
The New York Yankees currently sit atop the American League East with a comfortable lead and only one month and a half left in the MLB season.But as the past few years in baseball have taught us, no lead is safe no matter how big and how late into the season it might be.The Yankees still need to play out the remainder of their schedule to finish the job and will need to do some specific things along the way to get it done.Here are some things the Bombers must ...
After signing C Luis Torrens ($1.3 million), OF Alexander Palma ($800k) and SS Yancarlos Baez ($650k), the Yankees had approximately $150k of their bonus pool left to spend, which they used to land LHP Corby McCoy. The Yankees also utilized a unique exemption under the new international regulations, as they’re allowed to sign up to six players for $50K or less. As a result, the organization was able to sign LHP Luis Garcia as a low risk, high reward option. But now that the Yankees’ have reached their spending limit, ...