New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter will receive any honorary degree from Siena College during its commencement on May 13th (via Wall Street Journal Online).Jeter, who is hitting the cover off the ball so far this season (.378, 3, 7), never had an opportunity to attend college. He was drafted right out of his high school in Kalamazoo, Mich.He nearly attended the University of Michigan, but instead decided to pass up college to play baseball. Needless to say, Yankees fans are grateful that he made that decision.Siena will be honoring ...
For the better part of the past 20 years, the American League East has been dominated by two teams—the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. One or the other of these bitter rivals has won the division crown 14 of those 20 years. Only recently has another team—the Tampa Bay Rays—managed to capture the title twice in the past four seasons.In 2012 things may be changing.The Toronto Blue Jays have subtly rebuilt their team over the past few seasons and have emerged as a legitimate threat within the ...
The New York Yankees (5-5) and Minnesota Twins (3-7) will meet up for the second game of a four-game series on Tuesday night inside Yankee Stadium, with the first pitch scheduled for 7:05 ET.Las Vegas oddsmakers have established the Yankees as convincing -235 home favorites, while the total stands at 8.5 across the board.CC Sabathia (0-0, 6.75 ERA) is definitely the main reason for the high tariff being placed on the Yankees, as he's managed to post a dominating 8-0 record and 1.72 ERA in his last nine regular season ...
Freddy Garcia needed a big start on Monday night for the New York Yankees.He needed one because Andy Pettitte continues to shine down in the minor leagues, and when it's time for Pettitte to return to the majors, someone will lose his spot.If Garcia were pitching well, maybe it would be Phil Hughes who gets bumped.But Garcia did not have that start he needed. In fact, he was pretty awful for the Yankees.Garcia was knocked around for nine hits and five runs by the Minnesota Twins and boosted his 2012 ...
Mike Jaggers-Radolf asks if Derek Jeter can sustain his .366/.395/.610 start: Digging just a little bit into the numbers, Derek’s hot start doesn’t look sustainable. The Yankees have faced an improbably high number of left handed starters so far in 2012. One thing Jeter has always done is clobber left handed pitching. For his career he’s a .400 wOBA hitter against lefties. In his first eight games of the year Jeter has seen a southpaw on the mound for five of them. He’s responded accordingly. Derek has an other-worldly .617 wOBA against ...
We are about to start the second full week of the season, and most predictions have been spot on, but some have been way off. The New York Yankees bounced back from getting swept by the Tampa Bay Rays to start the season. They won five out of the six games last week and are looking more like the Yankees we expected. The Yankees will take on the Minnesota Twins at home and then end the week in Boston against the Red Sox.Here is a review of the predictions from April 9-15 and ...
On Sunday night, Connor Orr of New Jersey’s Star-Ledger wrote of how important the Jackie Robinson Day celebration is to Yankees players. Said Curtis Granderson: This day is the reason I get to play this great game of baseball, with Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier 65 years ago, and doing a lot of things not only for baseball but for the civil rights movement… For African-Americans like myself and other minorities as you look around this clubhouse, to get a chance to play this game, it’s all because of one ...
Andy Pettitte shocked the baseball world by coming out of retirement for one more go-around with the New York Yankees. Here's currently building his way back up to major-league status, but the Yankees kind of need him now.The starters aren't really doing their job all that well. The relief are getting overworked. Sure, the Yankees are deep in pitching, but that doesn't mean they need to stash Pettitte away to never be used.While Pettitte shouldn't be rushed to the majors, they do need his services. He needs to build up ...
New York Yankees right-handed starting pitcher Phil Hughes certainly got roughed up the other day in a 7-1 loss to the Los Angeles Angels.As expected, the fans have now begun to rough him up, as well.We all know that he had a solid 2010 season, and then lost it in 2011, much of which was due to injuries.Hughes then performed well in spring training in 2012, which led to high expectations for the regular season. Everyone feels let down by his two starts so far.He acknowledged (via MLB.com) that he ...
It cracked off the bat and cut through the warm air on a Sunday night in the Bronx, sailing over the right field fence in Yankee Stadium before settling five rows deep in the stands.Derek Jeter's three-run home run in the fourth inning of the New York Yankees' 11-5 win over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Sunday night was classic "Jeterian." An opposite-field shot that fans have seen time and again over the course of his now 18-year career.Any Yankee fan (or baseball fan for that matter) who has watched the ...