The next Baseball Bloggers Alliance award we are participating in is the Reliever of the Year Award or the Goose Gossage Award.
The Goose Gossage Award was named after the former Yankee reliever Goose Gossage because his style helped to defined the role of the modern closer. In his prime with the Yankees, Gossage had a 2.10 ERA, 150 saves, a 183 ERA+, and a 8.8 K/9 rate over a span of six years. He did it with a style of intimidation that set the tone for an entire generation of ...
Update: The New York Daily News has reported that the Yankees and the Bleacher Creatures have come to an agreement to end their controversial tradition.The Bleacher Creatures embody the best or worst of New York Yankees fans, based on your point of view. This group of die-hard fans, who now occupy Section 203, are notorious for both their vociferous, unconventional cheering for the home boys and merciless jeering of the opposing team and fans. The unofficial fan club’s origin is credited to Ali Ramirez, who started bringing a cowbell to inspire ...
After the 10-3 shelling that the New York Yankees took at the hands of the Texas Rangers in the "House that George Built," one can't help but begin to worry. What began in game one with the exception of an offensive outburst in one inning has only steadily gotten worse through the first four games.Is this really what a payroll in excess of $200 million looks like?It's not like the Yankees are losing close games. They have let a Texas Ranger team with almost no postseason experience outside of Cliff ...
The ALCS has not been good for the New York Yankees thus far, but blaming the pitching is just a mask for the real issue.
The issue is not hitting, which means runs don’t score. With zero or two as a team’s score, it forces the pitching into having to be almost perfect to get a win.
For example look back at CC Sabathia’s start in Game 1 of the ALCS. Sabathia, who is an ace in all terms is human at times and that CC was on the mound against the ...
Grady Little is forever remembered as the manager who was fired on the demerit of a single postseason game. Joe Girardi will probably avoid that same fate, but that doesn't mean he doesn't deserve it.It's hard to imagine Girardi having a worse game than he did on Tuesday at Yankee Stadium. That he had such a bad night, with the stakes being as high as they were, is damn near unforgivable.Put it this way: If The Boss was alive and still The Boss, reports of Girardi's disappearance would have already ...
Going into Game 4 of the ALCS, the New York Yankees were down 2 games to one to the Texas Rangers.
So, it’s understandable how hesitant Yankees fans were to trust the decision of starting AJ Burnett in the most important game of this postseason for New York.
Burnett did okay, better than expected but once again the Yankees couldn’t hit the baseball and once again stranding runners on base.
Things hit rock bottom in the fifth inning when Mark Teixeira grabbed the back of his right leg trying to get to first. ...
The Yankees had a lead with A.J. Burnett on the mound, but manager Joe Girardi got greedy and left him in too long as the Rangers eventually broke the game open for a 10-3 victory at Yankee Stadium.
Here are some highlights:
Burnett held the Rangers to two runs over five innings, but gave up a three-run shot to Bengie Molina in the sixth that put the Yankees behind 5-3.
Mark Teixeira seriously injured his groin running to first base. He’s likely out for the remainder of the playoffs ...
A.J. Burnett was pitching well until Bengie Molina sent the first pitch he saw in the sixth inning into the left field seats for a three-run homer and a 5-3 lead, one the Rangers would never relinquish en route to a 10-3 victory in Game 4 and a 3-1 American League Championship Series lead.
I don't have any problem with manager Joe Girardi leaving Burnett in to face Molina. After all, up to that point, the right-hander had allowed just two runs on five hits over five-and-two-thirds innings and had thrown ...
In 1996, a snot-nosed brat named Jeffrey Mair reached his hand into the field of play during the American League Championship Series. He grabbed a ball destined to be caught by Baltimore Orioles outfielder Tony Tarasco, thus allowing it to be called a home run hit by Derek Jeter because right field umpire Rich Garcia was out of position and uncertain of what exactly happened.
Instead of being ejected from Yankee Stadium, or vilified by the press, he was called a hero. Soon he was on televised talk shows and being given seats ...
By Mark Rinaldi
Most people remember that in the middle of the summer the New York Yankees were inches away from acquiring Cliff Lee from the Seattle Mariners for two prospects. The deal was so close to becoming official that Lee’s wife called CC Sabathia‘s better half for advice on making the transition to the Bronx.
If the deal would have been made the Yankees would have had six big name starting pitchers in C.C., Lee, Andy Pettite, A.J. Burnett, Phil Hughes, and Javier Vasquez. The talk was then that ...