Second basemen Robinson Cano and right fielder Nick Swisher both have club options for the 2012 season. Both players are very valuable to club, and the Yankees would be extremely stupid not to pick up their options.Cano has a $14 million option with a $2 million buyout. The Yankees likely want to keep Cano in pinstripes for a very, very long time. He has been the staple of consistency for the Yankees and is easily one of the top three second basemen in the game.Everyone knows of Cano's offensive prowess, ...
New York Yankees' manager Joe Girardi is frustratingly tight-lipped about impending decisions. However, on Thursday, Girardi announced that AJ Burnett and Phil Hughes are officially "on the bubble" as the Yankees plan on setting their 5-man starting rotation for the upcoming road trip and beyond . . . Full story from yankees.comRead more New York Yankees news on BleacherReport.com
A blown save, a blown game and a close escape…all in a week for Mariano Rivera. Three bad pitches are all it took to again raise doubts about the Yankees closer. Pitch one, Sunday: A cutter that Marco Scutaro smacked off the green monster for a leadoff double. That hit turned into the tying run, a blown save for Rivera and eventual 10-inning loss to the Red Sox. Pitch two, Tuesday: Another cutter that Bobby Abreu lined over the right field wall to break a 4-4 ninth inning tie. Pitch ...
So the greatest relief pitcher in the history of mankind is human after all.Who knew?Over his past three appearances, 41-year-old Mariano Rivera has made some bad pitches and gotten hit.As predictable as saying "it might snow in December," the lunatics have come out of the woodwork and started spouting nonsense."Rivera's done!"Oh really.We've been hearing the same reactionary ramblings since 2001, when a then-31-year-old Rivera was unable to finish the job against Luis Gonzalez and the Arizona Diamondbacks in the World Series.Every season since then, whether it be spring training, the ...
A week ago today, the New York Yankees rode into Boston on the back of a seven-game winning streak.They'd just completed a comprehensive four-game sweep of the Chicago White Sox, and were raring to face their heated rivals—the Boston Red Sox.Everything was clicking for the Bronx Bombers. Curtis Granderson, Mark Teixeira, and Derek Jeter were swinging a hot bat, and had contributed to the Yankees hammering the White Sox by a combined score of 34-11.Phil Hughes and Ivan Nova had both notched impressive wins in the series. Good pitching, coupled ...
Mention the 1951 pennant race and the image produced is Bobby Thomson’s home run that won the pennant for the New York Giants, but there was another pennant race that year. With nine games remaining, the New York Yankees led the second-place Cleveland Indians, who had only five games left, by a mere one-half game. The Yankees were in Boston to play the third-place Red Sox in a three-game set. The defending world champs had lost every one of the previous eight games they had played in Boston, but this ...
The New York Yankees are always a hot topic. Love them or hate them, there is typically something interesting going on in Yankeedom, something that is worthy of discussion regardless of where your loyalties may lie. It is the most successful franchise in all of sports in the only categories that ultimately matter, championships and revenue. They have the most of both, and in the short term, there doesn’t seem to be much that can get in the way of them maintaining their grip on leader status in either category. ...
Comparing 2011’s New York Yankees duo of switch-hitting Mark Teixeira and Curtis Granderson to the 1961 duo of switch-hitting Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris borders on the insane.Which, as many probably agree, puts me into that group. Mantle and Maris are the only teammates to hit at least 50 home runs in the same season. That will not change this year. Granderson and Teixeira each has hit 32 home runs this season. Granderson has played in 114 games while Teixeira has appeared in 115 games. On Aug. 12, 1961, Maris ...
Ivan Nova of the New York Yankees did a nice job against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim on Wednesday, giving up three earned runs through six innings.His season ERA is now at 3.85, which is above-average for a rookie starter. He definitely does not have a chance at beating out players like Michael Pineda or Jeremy Hellickson for Rookie of the Year honors, but Ivan Nova has been outright impressive this season.Mark Feinsand of the Daily News, as well as SNY, reports that Ivan Nova is no longer in ...
For as long as stock-car racing has existed, its unofficial motto has been: If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'. Drivers and pit crews get caught seemingly every other week in the act of some rule-bending. It actually makes the sport more engrossing.But it lacks a certain art. Eliminating a quarter-inch of drag may help you win, but it's not much fun to watch, and often, the car is found in violation by a NASCAR inspector behind the scenes and without much fanfare. It's boring, really.Not so in baseball. Cheating ...