On the evening of June 5, the 2014 MLB first-year player draft gets underway. Beginning Thursday morning, Bleacher Report kicks things off right here with draft coverage for the New York Yankees.
The Bombers do not have a first-round pick this year, eyeing their first two selections at No. 55 and No. 91.
Depth is still depth, and this year's draft is hardly short on talent—even outside the top 25. Having set off this past winter on a whirlwind spending spree, they ultimately forfeited their first-rounder for Brian McCann and their ...
Mock drafts are always a fun experiment to do in any professional sport. However, trying to predict who your favorite team will select is beyond challenging.
It gets even trickier when said team does not own a pick in the first round. That is exactly the case for the New York Yankees.
The Yankees will not make their first selection during the June 5th MLB Draft until the second round, at pick No. 55.
General manager Brian Cashman's offseason spending spree on free agents cost the Yankees their first round pick in this ...
The New York Yankees aren't sitting back and waiting for the results of Mark Teixeira's latest tests on his surgically repaired wrist. According to Jon Heyman of CBS, the Yankees have approached Kendrys Morales, who could sign as soon as Thursday evening.
Morales has been held hostage by the rules of baseball. As one of few free agents that was given a qualifying offer of $14.1 million by his former team, signing Morales would have cost his new team their first-round pick. Since the Yankees have already signed one of these players ...
First baseman Kendrys Morales, a free agent since last winter, has yet to find a team to call home, and its time the New York Yankees gave him one.
With the MLB draft right around the corner, Morales will soon become a hot commodity, since the draft-pick compensation attached to his name will cease to exist shortly after the draft commences.
With Mark Teixeira's status up in the air, Morales makes perfect sense for New York. Teixeira has been hampered by an inflamed right wrist and is currently awaiting medical evaluation, according ...
Given the way Sunday's loss to the Minnesota Twins unfolded, the outcome was an especially brutal one for the New York Yankees. With the team up 2-1 in the top of the ninth, not only did David Robertson fail to lock up the game, but the closer imploded in such a way that the Yankees haven't been used to witnessing in the ninth inning for the past, oh, decade-and-a-half.
Having spent several seasons working as the team's setup man—and becoming one of the best in the sport in that role—Robertson was groomed ...
The New York Yankees were 3-3 this past week, with a series win against the St. Louis Cardinals representing the high point of what was otherwise a mediocre week of play.
The hitting has been light of late for the Bombers. In this year's lineup, the Yankees can't rely on the home run to plate multiple runners at once. They'll need to get better at stringing together hits and succeeding in situational hitting.
Luckily for them, the future at the plate seems pretty bright. The Yankees have multiple prospects in their system who ...
When Masahiro Tanaka signed a seven-year, $155 million contract, many second-guessed the New York Yankees' decision. This man had never thrown a pitch in the major leagues before. He was picking up his life in Japan and moving to a foreign land. Many Japanese pitchers in the past had not panned out, especially for the Yankees.
What were the Bombers doing throwing all this money at this guy. What kind of risk were they taking?
Well, while the duration of the deal is far from over, Tanaka has been everything the Yankees ...
A rookie closer. A bunch of minor league starting pitching prospects who never panned out. A few no-name relievers. Some kids out of the farm system.
This is what Joe Girardi has had at his disposal in the Yankees' bullpen throughout the 2014 season. On paper that group does not seem like much. Heading into the season the pen was projected to be a major weak spot for the Bombers, but as of now, that is not the case. To the surprise of many, the pen has been strong, especially David ...
With the first two months of the MLB season almost complete and two months left before the trade deadline, the teams that will become buyers and sellers begin to take place.
The New York Yankees are almost always buyers every season, and this season will be no different.
The Yankees have battled several injuries and find themselves in the thick of the American League playoff picture.
The majority of those injuries have come to the Yankees starting rotation.
Ivan Nova is done for the season after having Tommy John surgery.
Both Michael Pineda and CC ...
The close of the 2013 season marked the end of a long era of dominant relief pitching in the Bronx. Mariano Rivera, who reigned as the New York Yankees’ closer since 1997, decided to hang up his cleats and infamous cutter—for real, this time.
Luckily for the New York Yankees, however, the team had closer-in-waiting David Robertson in tow. Robertson, 29, owned a 1.91 ERA (versus a 2.31 FIP) and 3.58 strikeouts-to-walks ratio from 2011 to 2013 while setting up for the future Hall of Famer.
As expected, Robertson’s transition to closer ...