COURTESY OF YANKEES 'N MORE Imagine, if you will, a scenario in which Phil Hughes had remained healthy all season, pitched to a 10-4 record with a 3.81 ERA and lost his job to a guy a year older than him, who was 2-3 with a 6.93 ERA, and who was at the very least fragile physically, if not mentally. Talk about a Twilight Zone episode. This is on the verge of happening, only in reverse. It is Hughes (25) who is on the verge of being awarded a job over ...
Ivan Nova is an unassuming near rookie who just made his 25th major league start, a non prospect who won't reach great, but might be heading toward damn good.Thursday night, Nova struck out 10 and held the Chicago White Sox to one run in 7.2 innings. His 10th win, his ERA now dragged below 4.00.There may be teams in the major leagues that would hand Ivan Nova the ball every fifth day and call him the ace, but the Yankees may soon send him back down to Triple-A. "It's not baseball ...
With two months left to go in the baseball season, the Yankees and Red Sox are tied for first place. No one would have expected this after Boston's horrendous start to the season and with all the Yankee injuries. Both teams will probably make the playoffs. Whoever wins this weekend's series will have an advantage for the division, while the other will have at least a five-game lead for the Wild Card.While the Rays and Angels are close, neither has enough to over take the Yankees or the Red Sox.With that ...
As sacrilegious as this might sound, the concept of having too much of a good thing holds true even when it comes to the greatest rivalry in North American professional sports. Admit it, Red Sox Nation. Four years ago, you were hardly conflicted over the ALDS matchup between the Yankees and Indians. You were weary of rivalry drama and simply didn’t want to risk losing a playoff round to a New York team featuring two of Boston’s one-time World Series heroes. But time has passed and times have changed back ...
It's time to finally give Ivan Nova his due.On Thursday night, Nova was basically auditioning for his spot in the starting rotation. With his performance, he's earned his spot.Against the Chicago White Sox, Nova pitched 7.2 innings, allowed one run on six hits, walked none and struck out a career high 10 batters in a 7-2 win for the Yankees.More impressively, Nova improves his record to 10-4 on the season with a 3.81 ERA.It was his second straight impressive start since getting recalled from the minor leagues.In his first game ...
It has been reported around the sports world that the Yankees have placed A.J. Burnett (among others) on waivers. Waiver trade rules can get pretty complicated. For some help understanding them, check out this cheat-sheet from ESPNs Jayson Stark.The most important waiver rule in this scenario, is that "if a team is just hoping to dump a player's salary, it can simply allow a team which claimed that player to have him for a small waiver fee. If that happens, the team that gets the player has to pay his entire salary." After this season, AJ ...
Am I the only one who finds the timing of the latest A-Rod “scandal” to be a little too coincidental? If you haven’t heard by now, MLB has again decided to look into the personal life of Alex Rodriguez, this time investigating his possible participation in illegal high stakes poker games involving other celebrities. Reportedly, at least one of these games saw players openly take cocaine during play, and one game saw violence break out after one player refused to pay up. Really? First off, none of the allegations claim ...
New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez will be talking to Major League Baseball investigators about his alleged involvement in high stakes poker games. It's likely that Rodriguez wasn't playing in a friendly household game and bringing his $300 million Goldman Sachs bankroll to handle the up and down swings.I believe it's time for a poker table to be set up on the Yankee Stadium infield and let Rodriguez and Derek Jeter play five hands in heads-up fashion.It's time to shuffle up and deal!Begin Slideshow
Commissioner, League Brass Must Stop “Poking” Their Head in ARod’s Business: By: Gary M. Ayd I am not here to be Alex Rodriguez's publicist. Nor am I going to claim in this space that he is a stand-up or likeable guy because he is not. That said, he also is not Albert Haynesworth, stomping on people’s heads, Ugueth Urbina going Freddie Krueger on some farmers, or even Barry Bonds fighting his teammates in the dugout and ignoring them after the game. ARod, a millionaire many times over, plays poker. The ...
The New York Yankees have publicly announced that they have a problem most teams would love to have; they have too much pitching. Manager Joe Girardi has extended this week's rotation to a six-man group, allowing Ivan Nova and Phil Hughes a chance to battle for the final official spot in the order. However, with Nova's continued success and Hughes' newfound dominance in his last start, Girardi has flirted with the idea of prolonging the extra spots, though that situation would likely only occur as long as CC Sabathia doesn't ...