At least where CC Sabathia is concerned, the good news for the New York Yankees is that the big left-hander is feeling healthy and ready to go for the 2015 season.
Trouble is, if Sabathia will actually pitch in 2015 is only one of the question marks next to his name. With two years of bad pitching behind him and his power stuff long gone, the other is how he'll pitch in 2015.
Sabathia didn't have much to say about that in a recent chat with ESPN. The main focus was his recovery ...
If it's not already on your mind, consider this your first warning:
The Alex Rodriguez circus is already making a comeback, and it's only going to get worse.
If this hasn't been on your mind, don't worry. That's hardly a character flaw, and it's understandable.
The A-Rod circus did just take a year off, after all. The New York Yankees veteran was originally hit with a 211-game suspension resulting from Major League Baseball's investigation into Biogenesis in 2013, and the decision was largely upheld last January, resulting in Rodriguez being suspended for the entire ...
About a year ago, the New York Yankees drew up a master plan to get their farm system in shape. Now, you'll know they've completed it when they have a certain player in their clutches:
Yoan Moncada.
You should know that name by now. If not, the need-to-know information at this juncture is that he's a 19-year-old super-prospect from Cuba who projects as a franchise cornerstone, and the bidding on him is finally open.
It's taken a while for Moncada's free agency to become official, but Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports reported Tuesday ...
Spring training is almost here, and that means two things.
The first is that, thankfully, baseball is almost back.
The second is that there will be plenty of positional battles throughout major league camps as players try to cement their roles on big league rosters. Like every other team, that will be true with the New York Yankees as they prepare for Opening Day in Tampa, Florida.
The Yankees have a few questions surrounding their team, namely when it comes to backing up the backstop, plugging the middle part of the infield and ...
More than any other, the word "maybe" comes to mind when thinking about Masahiro Tanaka and the New York Yankees. In fact, it comes to mind twice.
Here's Maybe No. 1: Despite having a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow, maybe the ace right-hander can avoid Tommy John surgery and stay healthy in 2015.
And here's Maybe No. 2: If he does, maybe the Yankees will have a shot at returning to October.
Time will tell, of course. But with spring training approaching, it's high time for us to ponder these ...
Don't look now, but the New York Yankees have behaved a little differently this winter. Actually, they've behaved exactly how they said they would.
At the outset of the offseason, general manager Brian Cashman indicated the Yankees likely would not be in on any of the big-money free agents, like Max Scherzer, James Shields, Hanley Ramirez and Pablo Sandoval, according to Mark Feinsand of the New York Daily News.
Sure, they've still spent quite a bit—right around $100 million in free agency—but nothing quite like last year's half-a-billion-dollar binge. And each of ...
The ongoing cold war between the New York Yankees and third baseman Alex Rodriguez appears to be headed for another battle. Bill Madden and Teri Thompson of the New York Daily News reported the Yankees are preparing to contest the $6 million bonuses due to Rodriguez as he moves his way up the all-time home runs list.
Rodriguez, who is currently fifth on the all-time list with 654 home runs, is six away from tying Willie Mays. The Yankees, citing their beleaguered star's continued use of performance-enhancing drugs, plan to allege his cheating ...
Spring training is almost here, which means Opening Day and the 2015 season are getting closer and closer with each passing day.
A lot has changed with the New York Yankees since the last time fans saw the team. This year's bunch is younger and better defensively, but it also comes with plenty of question marks. As he pays attention to various positional battles throughout spring training, manager Joe Girardi will have a few tough choices to make when it comes time to decide the final Opening Day roster.
Here is an ...
The six-man rotation is sort of like the Bigfoot or Loch Ness Monster of Major League Baseball. It's talked about but doesn't really exist.
But unlike Sasquatch or Nessy, a baseball team putting together a batch of six starting pitchers actually could come to fruition. While it flies in the face of convention—five-man rotations have become an ingrained part of the sport's accepted modus operandi—a six-man rotation would require a club to have the arms necessary and the daring to make such a decision.
Like, maybe, the New York Yankees.
It might seem ...
In an attempt to make a comeback after suspensions and injuries have essentially kept him out of baseball for the past two years, New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez has reportedly enlisted the services of another controversial superstar in his day, Barry Bonds.
According to John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle, Rodriguez is training with Bonds at the Future Prospects facility in San Rafael, California:
A couple of sources—actually buddies whose kids train at the facility—tipped me off to the Bonds-Rodriguez sessions, which obviously made quite a few up-and-comers do a double take. The kids looked, ...