One night after baseball's league-wide Opening Day, Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees took the field in Houston for the first of 162 games. In 2014, the most interesting 25-man roster in the sport won't be afforded the luxury of navigating through a marathon.Instead, with the specter of Jeter's retirement hanging over a franchise with enormous expectations, each game—maybe even each inning and at-bat—will take on a bigger feel, accompanied by pressure to perform.
Of course, if any team or franchise can handle that edict, it's the Yankees. On a yearly basis, ...
It's only fitting that the New York Yankees are one of the final two teams, along with Tuesday night's opponents, the Houston Astros, to experience their first game of the 2014 season. That gives future Hall of Famer and Yankees legend Derek Jeter, who announced in February that he's retiring at season's end, a little extra time to take in his last Opening Day and the start of his final year in baseball.
Then again, after all he went through in 2013, Jeter might have prefer that 2014 start as soon ...
As Derek Jeter's 20th and final major league season begins in Houston, the Yankees captain can be described as a leader, winner and offensive genius. For media members and fans, statistics and accolades tell the story of an all-time great shortstop.
For former teammates, there's more to the story.
Last week, Tino Martinez and Dwight Gooden—former teammates and longtime friends of Jeter—were at the MLB Fan Cave in New York to promote a new partnership with Major League Baseball, Arm & Hammer and OxiClean.Aside from business, the former New York baseball greats ...
The New York Yankees owned the offseason, and on Tuesday, they begin their quest in substantiating their slew of pricey moves.
It started with Brian McCann, a seven-time All Star who signed a five-year, $85 million contract in November. Then the Yanks simply continued to up the ante more and more with Carlos Beltran (three years, $45 million), Jacoby Ellsbury (seven years, $153 million) and Japanese import Masahiro Tanaka (seven years, $155 million) as the winter wore on.
After a flurry of spending that might make Warren Buffett blush, the Yankees look ...
It's finally here.
It took a long month of spring workouts and practice games, but Opening Day is finally here. As a result, New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi and his coaching staff had to finalize the 25-man roster that will make the trip to Houston to take on the Astros during the first series of the season.
There was a lot to take from this year's spring camp. With new faces aplenty, the Yankees figure to be one of the more interesting teams this season. In terms of new talent, the ...
As spring training continues to creep toward its completion, so do many of the position battles that were up for grabs on the New York Yankees.
Earlier this week, Joe Girardi closed the book on one battle when he named Michael Pineda the Yankees' fifth starter to begin the season.
Pineda was stellar all spring, finishing with a 2-1 record and a 1.20 ERA. He struck out 16 hitters in 15 innings pitched and only walked one.
Pineda was a bright spot for the Yanks this spring, and Wallace Matthews of ESPNNewYork.com writes that ...
As spring training continues to creep toward its completion, so do many of the position battles that were up for grabs on the New York Yankees.
Earlier this week, Joe Girardi closed the book on one battle when he named Michael Pineda the Yankees' fifth starter to begin the season.
Pineda was stellar all spring, finishing with a 2-1 record and a 1.20 ERA. He struck out 16 hitters in 15 innings pitched and only walked one.
Pineda was a bright spot for the Yanks this spring, and Wallace Matthews of ESPNNewYork.com writes that ...
CC Sabathia and the 2013 New York Yankees had a lot in common. Both looked old, broken down, overpriced and like shells of their once-great selves.
The Yankees missed the playoffs last year for just the second time since 1995. Sabathia had the highest ERA (4.18), home run rate (1.19), home run to fly ball ratio (13.0 percent), WHIP (1.37) and hits per nine innings (9.6) of his career.
It was a year to forget for everyone in New York, especially Sabathia, but now there are reasons for optimism as the big ...
CC Sabathia and the 2013 New York Yankees had a lot in common. Both looked old, broken down, overpriced and like shells of their once-great selves.
The Yankees missed the playoffs last year for just the second time since 1995. Sabathia had the highest ERA (4.18), home run rate (1.19), home run to fly ball ratio (13.0 percent), WHIP (1.37) and hits per nine innings (9.6) of his career.
It was a year to forget for everyone in New York, especially Sabathia, but now there are reasons for optimism as the big ...
Expectations are everything in the Bronx; they're hard to ignore when the club's history and current spending produce and project them so high.
They're more difficult to forgo because last season's 85-77 record left the team short of the postseason and sent them into the biggest reactionary frenzy since the winter that mended and retooled the 2008 debacle into the 2009 World Series champions.
And now, following a successful spring training, what had been on-paper, calculated, anxious anticipation has become justified, high expectation for the regular season. The refashioned yet untested 2014 ...