CC Sabathia has five more years to go. At least as a Yankee. For $23 million a year. Unless HE doesn't want to (given his player's option to quit after two more years).
Unless he's the team's answer to Jamie Moyer or Phil Niekro, he won't be worth $23 million in his seventh year. More to the point, he hasn't been worth $23 million in this, his SECOND year, according to FanGraphs. More like $18-$19 million year to date.
Sabathia IS the best pitcher with the New York Yankees. But he is ...
Even had CC Sabathia pitched well last night, who knows if it would've been enough to lock down a second Cy Young Award?The groundswell for Felix Hernandez is building. The Mariners ace fired eight more brilliant innings in a 1-0 loss earlier Thursday, dropping him to 12-12 on the year.
Nevertheless, it's hard to shake the feeling this is shaping up as a (big air quotes) statement year by voters—the season they show us how smart they are by discounting the (even bigger air quotes) flawed statistics of wins and losses.Had ...
Last night in a 7-2 loss to Tampa Bay, Yankees manager Joe Girardi brought in relief pitcher Royce Ring, who was making his debut this season after pitching in Triple-A for most of 2010. Ring was very effective and efficient, so should Girardi include Ring on the postseason roster? All three of the teams the Yankees could potentially face in the playoffs—Tampa Bay, Texas, and Minnesota—have big name left-handed batters. The Yankees currently have just one lefty specialist in the bullpen, Boone Logan. In his first season on the Yankees, ...
Via Jack Curry's Twitter:
Yanks expect 11 pitchers for DS. CC, AJ, Andy, Phil, Mo, Wood, Joba, Logan, Rbrtsn r locks. Nova, Vazquez, Gaudin, Mitre fight 4 2 spots.
He forgot to mention Dustin Moseley, but I assume if he blew the Yankees away over the next two weeks he could easily beat out some of these players. I’m also going to throw in Royce Ring because he is a lefty and could worm his way on to the ALDS roster with some impressive performances.
So the possible final two ...
This is going to kill me because I am a die-hard New York Yankees fan, but in the pessimistic would that I live in, I can see the Yankees blowing it with ten games remaining and two big series coming up with their arch rival Boston Red Sox.
The Red Sox have lost their last four of six, and honestly, I think they could come back from eight back in the AL East and 6.5 back in the Wild Card. Boston is off today as they sit and wait to see ...
At age 34, Lance Berkman has started to feel his age this season as he has dealt with a few nagging injuries that have dragged his numbers down. His season in Houston was up and down and the first two weeks in the Bronx were just ugly.
Berkman went on the DL in the middle of August, and before he came off the DL he started working with Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long in order to hit the ground running as soon as he was activated.
That work has paid off. ...
The New York Yankees lost the third game to the Tampa Bay Rays Wednesday night, with a final score of 7-2. The Yankees lead this four-game set, 2-1, with a goal to win the final and take the series. The Rays' best, and only shot is to spilt the series, creeping up on the AL East leading Yankees to just a half-game. Clearly with nine games remaining after this series wraps up, nothing is set in stone in the AL East. The Yankees have a tough schedule—playing the Red Sox ...
Top Five Stories From Yesterday
1. The Phillies sweep the Braves out of Philadelphia, increasing their lead in the NL East to six games and reducing their magic number to four.
2. The Padres retake the lead in the NL West after they defeat the Dodgers, and the Giants lose to the Cubs.
3. The Rays get back to within 1.5 games of the Yankees after winning the third game of their big four-game series.
4. Vincent Jackson is not traded by the San Diego Chargers, and will have to serve a six-game suspension ...
The rain knocked A.J. Burnett out of the game and the Yankees B-squad bullpen let them down as they lost at home 7-2 to the Tampa Bay Rays to drop to just 1.5 games up in first place.
Here are some highlights:
Because of the rain, Burnett pitched just three innings and allowed only one run and got credit for the loss.
The Yankees were fortunate that the rain knocked Wade Davis out of the game after he held them hitless over 2.1 innings, but they couldn’t take advantage it though ...
The 2010 Cy Young conversation had been a fascinating debate. It had raised questions about how to determine if a pitcher is successful, and the value of certain statistics. But, unlike other years, the 2010 debate has recently become quite a silly argument as the season comes to a close. The main discussion has been between CC Sabathia and Felix Hernandez. David Price and Francisco Liriano are also in the discussion, but for some reason have not been given nearly as much attention as the other two. If we were to ...