Berkman actually had a no-trade clause and a $15 million 2011 option with the Astros. When he was traded, in order to agree to waive his NTC, he had the Yankees promise not to use his option. It’s not often a player Berkman’s age wants a team to promise not to pay him $15 million, so it was a pretty strong indication that he didn’t want to stay in the Bronx past this season.
Now he’s pretty much confirmed that.
Via the NY Daily News:
Would returning to ...
No matter what happens during the 2010 Major League Playoffs, the Yankees will immediately get to work in the offseason to either win a third straight title or try to get back on top after a one year hiatus.
One free agent target most everyone in the industry agrees the Yankees will get their hands on is current Rangers ace Cliff Lee. Lee has been one of the best pitchers in baseball over the past three seasons and is bolstering his playoff resume with each gem he twirls in October.
In game ...
The New York Yankees are riding a wave of momentum heading back home up two games to zero over the Minnesota Twins. After relying on veterans CC Sabathia and Andy Pettitte the first two games, the Yankees will be throwing 24-year-old Phil Hughes in hopes of closing out the series.
Hughes had an up and down year in 2010, although his statistics may indicate a more successful season. He finished the season 18-8 with a 4.19 ERA in 176.1 innings.
The win-loss record jumps out first as 18 wins had him among ...
CC Sabathia, Andy Pettitte, and Phil Hughes make up the Yankees starting rotation for the ALDS, and should for the rest of the postseason as well.
CC Sabathia came to New York as a playoff flop, struggling with both the Indians and Brewers in their recent postseason appearances, but has turned his October career around with the Yankees and has established himself as a big game pitcher.
His gritty game one performance was a little scary at times, but he was able to escape several jams and hold down the Twins offense while ...
In his latest column for Sports Illustrated, Jon Heyman suggested that free agent-to-be Cliff Lee might be preparing to ask for something similar to the seven-year, $161 million deal that his friend, CC Sabathia got two off-seasons ago.
Via Sports Illustrated:
Before Halladay took a $60-million, three-year extension with Philly, Lee turned down a similar offer, believed to be for three years and somewhere in the mid-$50-millions from Philadelphia, who eventually traded him to Seattle. Word was, he was thinking about more than double that, maybe something close to Johan Santana‘s ...
A lot of people will see this as a bad omen, and I can’t blame them; it appears that Mayor Michael Bloomberg is already planning another Yankees ticker tape parade.
Via the NY Daily News:
When it comes to the Yankees, Mayor Bloomberg is already thinking sweep—and street sweepers.
With the Bronx Bombers up 2-0 in their first-round series with the Twins, the mayor confessed he’s plotting another World Series ticker-tape celebration in the Canyon of Heroes.
“I’m sort of trying to figure out where the parade should start,” the mayor said Friday on ...
When Jim Thome flied out to short left field in the bottom of the ninth Thursday night, that out secured the New York Yankees eighth straight postseason victory over the Minnesota Twins.
The things which the Twins have no control over, whether it is missed third strike calls or fair balls ruled foul, have always come back to haunt them against the Yankees. Add in the many base running errors of last season's ALDS, too.
Witnessing the interviews in the clubhouse after Thursday's Game Two, it appears the Twins are sunk. The shrugging of the ...
Despite a little bit of controversy, the Yankees beat the Twins to put them on the brink of elimination.
Today is an off-day, but Phil Hughes goes tomorrow night back at Yankee Stadium.
Here are some notes:
Andy Pettitte said that Lance Berkman told him the other day that he and Kevin Long made adjustments to his swing, and he was feeling a lot better at the plate.
Last night’s game was Jorge Posada‘s 113th postseason game of his career, moving him ahead of David Justice and behind Derek Jeter and Bernie Williams ...
The Yankees have been waiting a long time for Lance Berkman to do something. Actually, they've been waiting for him do to anything.Before yesterday, his most notable achievement in pinstripes was hitting Alex Rodriguez in the shin with a line drive in batting practice. That happened in early August, and in all the time that followed, one of the greatest sluggers in Houston Astros history managed a single home run in New York.The Big Puma was suddenly an endangered species. That's not a clever pun. I literally worried a bleacher ...
The big story of this Yankee season has been the starting pitching, so it is no coincidence that this list has only four batters included.The Yankees have had disastrous seasons for how much they are paying both AJ Burnett and Javier Vazquez.So it is without question that the Yankees need to address the top five arms on the squad and shore up their rotation when it comes time to make their offers to free agents this winter.Without further ado, here are the 10 players that New York should take a ...