We are less than a month away from Opening Day. That means everyone is getting their regular season predictions ready. To most, that means predictions for regular season stats for the players that make up their favorite teams and their fantasy baseball teams too.Robinson Cano, Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira are three players New York Yankees fans will be paying a lot of attention to. A-Rod has to bounce back from a lackluster, injury-filled season. Teixeira needs to raise his batting average up to his norm. Cano is poised to ...
Most fans of small market teams believe Major League Baseball had a golden opportunity with the most recent labor deal to improve competitive balance by implementing a salary cap. Does the new agreement benefit high-spending teams like the Yankees, or their small market counterparts that get by on a budget?Most years, the Yankees usually do every other team a favor by paying a premium to players who typically under perform the huge contracts they sign. Take Alex Rodriguez, for example. After his monster 2007 season, he opted out of the record deal he originally signed with the ...
Job openings don't occur often with the Yankees.
Consider, for example, that Derek Jeter has been a fixture at shortstop and Mariano Rivera has been a bastion of the bullpen since the end of Bill Clinton's first term as president.
Similarly, Alex Rodriguez has been the third baseman since 2004 and Robinson Cano has held down second since 2005.
By those standards, Mark Teixeira is a relative newcomer taking over first base in 2009. And Teixeira isn't expected to relinquish the position anytime soon.
When people talk about change with the Yankees, it usually ...
When Alex Rodriguez's and Graig Nettles' New York Yankees careers are compared, my first reaction is that A-Rod is the greatest third baseman in Yankees' history. Rodriguez owes the Yankees six more seasons. The Yankees owe him $180 million. The Yankees traded John Ellis, Jerry Kenney, Charlie Spikes and Rusty Torres to the Cleveland Indians for Nettles and Jerry Moses on Nov. 27, 1972. It was one of the best trades the Yankees ever made. From 1973-83, the years Nettles was a Yankee, they won four pennants and two world ...
Catchers may play the most physically demanding position in the game, but infielders are crazy.Often they leave their feet trying to catch—or at least knock down—a ball traveling in excess of 100 miles per hour that three seconds earlier was en route to home plate.Some infielders are great with the glove.Others are better with the bat.Every once in awhile, you find someone who is equally adept with both.In the history of the New York Yankees, hundreds of players have stepped foot onto the dirt infield wearing a pinstriped uniform with ...
If there's one thing the New York Yankees have been known for the last decade, besides winning, it's having veteran players.Over the last decade, the Yankees have had veteran pitchers, both good and bad, like Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte, Mike Mussina, David Wells, David Cone, Randy Johnson, Javier Vazquez, Carl Pavano and Kevin Brown, just to name some.Though the Yankees are trying to get younger, with the likes of Ivan Nova, Michael Pineda and Phil Hughes, there are still some veterans there who are key to this organization.Here are five veteran pitchers ...
Oh, what a difference a season makes.The Yankees entered last spring training with a starting pitching deficiency. Sure, they had many options, but it was uncertain how valuable several of those options were.Fast forward to spring training in 2012, and the team now has six capable starters with just five spots in the rotation.The first two spots will be occupied by CC Sabathia and Hiroki Kuroda, with the final three spots being up for grabs between the likes of Ivan Nova, Michael Pineda, Phil Hughes and Freddy Garcia.Nova and Pineda ...
When the New York Yankees traded prized prospect Jesus Montero for upstart rookie All-Star Michael Pineda of the Seattle Mariners, they believed they were getting major league-ready talent in exchange for major league-ready talent. But according to George King III of the New York Post, manager Joe Girardi believes there is a possibility that Pineda could start his Yankee campaign in the minor leagues. "That's a possibility,'' Girardi said of Pineda being sent to the minors to start the season. "Some of the guys have options if that's what we need to ...
The greatest rivalry in sports is between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. The rivalry has lasted over 100 years and has brought some of the most exciting moments in sports.However, lately the rivalry has felt watered down and almost gone. Between the friendliness of certain players and lack of intensity from the managers, the rivalry has struggled. Players like David Ortiz, Robinson Cano, Derek Jeter and Dustin Pedroia have friendships that hinder the rivalry from being what it could be.It wasn't too long ago that Pedro ...
From 1982-87, John Sterling worked for Ted Turner's Atlanta Braves, broadcasting the team's games on TBS. Sports editor Buddy McCarter didn't mince words when it came to his opinion of Sterling in a column written in May, 1985. "John Sterling ... has to rank as one of the all-time worst announcers in the game." One of Sterling's favorite phrases in those days was "mind-boggling." He worked with Pete Van Weiren, Skip Caray (Chip's daddy and Harry's son) and Ernie Johnson (Ernie Johnson Jr.'s daddy). None liked working with Sterling. St. ...