Major League Baseball's offseason is undeniably the most exciting in sports.
Once the winter meetings get going in early December, players begin signing contracts and switching uniforms at a rapid pace. Teams are making trades, bringing in free agents and bidding against one another in the name of improving their own ballclub.
That holds true for the New York Yankees, as it does for any organization. After missing the playoffs for the second straight year with one of MLB's oldest rosters in 2014, the Yanks decided they wanted get younger. With this ...
Free agency has not been kind to Stephen Drew recently, but the veteran shortstop has found a new home heading into the 2015 season.
According to Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal, Drew has decided to rejoin the New York Yankees:
CBSSports.com's Jon Heyman first reported that a deal was close.
The last two times Drew was a free agent, after 2012 and 2013, he had to settle for one-year deals. He battled injuries during the 2012 season that limited him to 79 games with Arizona and Oakland, so Boston was able to get him at ...
The New York Yankees have had an eventful offseason despite not making any major splashes, yet there is still some work to do.
They have already found Derek Jeter's successor in Didi Gregorius, traded for young starter Nathan Eovaldi, re-signed third baseman Chase Headley, brought in reliever Andrew Miller and made a handful of other smaller moves, so it has not exactly been quiet on the Yankees' front.
Still, the Bronx Bombers 2015 roster as it is presently constructed has some question marks. The rotation's health should be a major concern. Rob ...
The 2014 season didn’t go as planned for the New York Yankees, who failed to reach the playoffs for a second straight year despite signing high-profile free agents such as Jacoby Ellsbury, Masahiro Tanaka, Brian McCann and Carlos Beltran.
Things went much better down on the farm, though, as the organization’s top prospects took a huge step forward individually and collectively.
Outfielder Aaron Judge flashed his offensive upside with an impressive professional debut across both Class-A levels, while 20-year-old right-handed pitcher Luis Severino and his electric arm turned in a breakout performance ...
The new year is almost upon us, which means so are New Year's resolutions.
It is a tradition for people to come up with changes they want to make in their lives, whether it be eating healthier, going to the gym more or quitting a bad habit like smoking. We all have areas in which we would love to improve.
So do the New York Yankees.
After not making the playoffs for two straight seasons, the Bronx Bombers need to make some resolutions of their own in 2015. If they do, perhaps this ...
There's fewer than 60 days until pitchers and catchers report, which means there's less than two months until the Alex Rodriguez circus begins again for the New York Yankees.
It's been a while since the embattled Rodriguez last was a regular topic of discussion and debate in baseball circles, let alone a daily one, as he surely will be come Feb. 20, 2015.
Now that Rodriguez is 39 years old and coming off a few injury-riddled seasons and the longest performance-enhancing drug-related suspension in Major League Baseball history—that is, the entire 2014 ...
Over the last 20 years, the New York Yankees have claimed five World Series championships, seven American League Pennants and five AL East titles. The success of the Yankees has come in large part from the homegrown talents of the "Core Four."
Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte were certainly the faces of the Yankees dynasty—and arguably the most eccentric part of the success the Yankees had. However, the shrewd moves in free agency are what helped build this team into the force it has become.
Over the past ...
The New York Yankees need Yoan Moncada, the next Cuban sensation readying to make his way to Major League Baseball. And they need him for oh-so-many reasons.
Moncada, in case you haven't been paying attention, defected from his native Cuba and established residency in Guatemala, where he held a showcase workout for teams in mid-November. He already has been declared a free agent by MLB, but before open season on signing Moncada starts, teams still are awaiting word that he has been cleared by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ...
With some time having gone by and the New Year almost upon us, it has been a strange offseason thus far for the New York Yankees.
They have not been quiet, signing free-agent reliever Andrew Miller and re-signing third baseman Chase Headley. They also traded for shortstop Didi Gregorius and starter Nathan Eovaldi in an attempt to get younger. They let both David Robertson and Brandon McCarthy walk, choosing to not even offer them contracts.
In surprising Yankees fashion, the team has yet to make a big splash, passing on all of ...
New York City and the rest of the country are still reeling from the murder of police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu on Saturday. The New York Yankees are doing their part to provide some relief to the families of the fallen officers, offering to pay for the education of Ramos' children.
Bill Madden and Teri Thompson of the New York Daily News have more:
For 32 years, Steinbrenner's Yankee Silver Shield Foundation has provided for the education of the children of New York City police officers, firemen and Port Authority employees who ...