The New York Yankees need to trade Eduardo Nunez as soon as possible.
Nunez has already shown himself to be a legitimate major league hitter with good speed. He was 15-for-51 with six steals this year before being sent down to Triple-A, but he wasn't helping the team.
He was a defensive nightmare at every position he played. In just 20 games in 2012, he has made errors at second base, shortstop, third base and left field (although he was fortunate enough to have Major League Baseball change his error in left ...
The New York Yankees of 2012 have begun the season performing their finest Jekyll-and-Hyde act. There have been strings of victories characterized by impressive power displays and fine pitching, and there have been inexplicable runs of losses featuring horrible hitting with runners in scoring position and short disappointing starts by their rotation.Through it all, the Yankees remain in striking distance of the American League playoffs.If they are to make the playoffs, however, they will need several players to improve upon their horrible starts to the season.This article takes a look ...
2014. That’s the year Hal Steinbrenner said the New York Yankees payroll will drop to $189 million, and unless Nick Swisher takes a pay cut, he’s not going to figure into their plans for the future. Some fans might not want him to return, but others do. I’m of the opinion that we might as well bring him back if there are no other options. And really, are there many better options out there that fit into the Yankees’ plans? Since coming to New York and playing for the Yankees, ...
Despite the obvious bonanza of talent up and down the Yankee lineup, one would be hard pressed to not recognize the aging parts. Four of the current everyday players for the Yankees (Jeter, Rodriguez, Jones, and Ibanez) are over the age of 35, meaning that, on any given day, almost half the lineup could fit into that geriatric equation. With this aging offense in 2012, the team has managed to win ballgames with the ultimate chick-digging long ball. While manager Joe Girardi isn’t about to channel his inner Lou Brown and ...
The New York Yankees have gotten off to a pretty rough start over the first 38 games of the 2012 season.After dropping Thursday night's game to the Toronto Blue Jays, the Yankees are now 20-18 and fourth in the competitive AL East.The standings are very off from what many "experts" predicted, as the Baltimore Orioles currently lead. The Tampa Bay Rays are in second, the Jays are third, the Yankees are fourth and the Boston Red Sox bring up the rear.Despite the fourth-place standing, the Yankees have no reason to ...
When the Yankees come home from their four-game road trip, they are looking for a little help.They just dropped three in a row, two of which came at the hands of the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre, and currently sit in fourth place in the A.L. East.The Yankees need a little pick-me-up when they arrive in the Bronx on Friday night.Hopefully, an old veteran will be able to put a stop to the losing streak when they begin their three-game series against the Cincinnati Reds.Andy Pettitte will make ...
I have seen Mark Teixeira play since his rookie season with the Texas Rangers in 2003.I lived in the Dallas-Fort Worth area back then and Tex, as he was nicknamed, had a promising first season, batting .259 with 26 home runs and 84 RBI.He started slowly, batting just .237 with five homers and 25 RBI through May. That's when he got the reputation for slow starts.A little research, however, reveals that the perception of Teixeira as a notoriously slow starter is wrong.That won't comfort Yankees fans who have been waiting ...
Craig Calcaterra of HardballTalk reported that Rolling Stone asked some rock stars to reveal their favorite ballpark. Dodger Stadium and Wrigley Field were the winners. Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie, who sang the National Anthem before the third game of the 2010 NLCS in San Francisco, said that PNC Park in Pittsburgh is his favorite. Then he excoriated the New York Yankees new ballpark. “It might look like the old one from the outside, but inside it's more like a gaudy, Long Island shopping mall than a ballpark.” ...
No Mariano Rivera, David Robertson or Joba Chamberlain for the New York Yankees would normally doom the back-end of their bullpen. But thanks to Hal Steinbrenner, the Yanks aren't as bad off as they could've been.That's because Steinbrenner was the one who pushed to sign Rafael Soriano going into last season, a move that was against the will of his general manager, Brian Cashman (via NYDailyNews.com).Cash believed the deal was far too rich for a setup man, and while he was correct, Hal might've had a vision of one day ...
If you have been a veteran of this website like I have, you will remember this song and dance of almost two years ago.There were two really big pitching targets that were on the market—one via free agency and one via trade.The New York Yankees were linked to both of them, but didn't get either of them.The first was Cliff Lee, who the Yankees offered big-time money for, but decided to reject the Yankees offer to return to the Philadelphia Phillies.The other was Zack Greinke, who some thought the Yankees ...