The Yankees had a busy day Friday, acquiring Lance Berkman from the Astros and Austin Kearns from the Indians, and it looks like they could make some more moves today as the 4:00 PM Trade Deadline approaches.
The big splash for the Yankees so far has been the trade for Lance Berkman . The details and trade won't be official until this afternoon, due to Berkman spending his entire career in Houston, making him a 10-5 player (10-5 means that the player been in the league at least ...
Tampa Bay entered their weekend series against New York with the opportunity to reclaim first place in the American League East. On Friday, one swing of the bat put the Rays closer to their goal.
Matt Joyce’s two out, two-run home run erased a 2-0 deficit en route to the Rays 3-2 win Friday at Tropicana Field.
Tampa Bay matched a season-high with their seventh straight win, and moved within one game of the first place Yankees. New York dropped to 4-5 this season against the Rays.
John ...
The 2010 trade deadline will be deemed unsucccessful for the Yankees tomorrow at 4:00 pm.
The Yankees acquired Lance Berkman and Austin Kearns on Friday, just hours before the trade deadline. Berkman will fill the Yankees void at designated hitter, and Kearns will add depth to the Yankees bench.
You can understand why the Yankees acquired Kearns. The Yankees always said they want a bench player, and Kearns can play almost every position on the field. Berkman, on the other hand, is a different story.
After the Yankees declined a trade for ...
According to Joel Sherman of the NY Post, who’s on fire today breaking two trades, the Yankees acquired outfielder Austin Kearns from the Cleveland Indians for a player to be named later.
Kearns fills the roll of an outfielder who can hit lefties. He’s not a lefty masher or anything, but his career 106 OPS+ against them is an upgrade over Colin Curtis . Sherman also reports that part of the reason the Yankees targeted Kearns is because he’s a pretty good outfielder and manager ...
Jon Heyman is reporting (via Twitter) Lance Berkman has been traded to the New York Yankees. According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post (via Twitter), the Yankees will send pitcher Mark Melancon and second baseman Jimmy Paredes to Houston.
The Yankees Get It has been a disappointing season for Berkman, hitting .245 with 13 HR, 49 RBI and 39 R. He has suffered from some below average luck, with a BABIP of .279, his lowest mark since seeing just 93 AB in 1999. His strikeouts are also at ...
New York Yankees Javier Vazquez will face Tampa Bay Rays Matt Garza on Saturday night at the Trop.
Let's take a look at this match-up:
Tampa Bay Rays: Matt Garza (11-5)
Fresh off throwing the franchiser's first no-hitter in its 13-year history, SP Matt Garza's overall outlook doesn't change much. Garza is still trying to get back to his 2008 form.
Garza likes pitching at home, even if home is Tropicana Field. At the Trop Garza has a .230 OBA against batters with runners in scoring position.
This season Garza has a 4.06 ...
Roy Oswalt struggled in his Philadelphia Phillies debut, but he should form a formidable duo with Roy Halladay atop their rotation down the stretch.
With Saturday’s trade deadline looming, teams are looking either to bolster already formidable rotations and lineups or to move the present and build for the future. It happens every season in baseball.
And considering the excitement generated so far, 2010 has been no different.
The Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees, last year’s World Series representatives, improved just for the heck of it.
The Phillies, which acquired ace Roy ...
Various media sources are reporting the New York Yankees have acquired Lance Berkman from the Houston Astros to be their DH.
This is clearly in reaction to the Phillies acquiring Roy Oswalt, as they don't want to look as though they did nothing during the trade deadline, while the Phillies vastly upgraded their team.
They say that the only reason the trade has not gone through are the MLB rules that a team must wait 24 hours until after a player with a 10-and-5 player, someone who has spent 10 years in ...
It looks like long-time Astros star Lance Berkman is headed to the Yankees, according to ESPN.
The Texas native, who even played at Rice University in Houston, is finally leaving the sinking franchise. For Berkman, it essentially accelerates the inevitable. This is his last year on contract, and with the trade for Brett Wallace yesterday, it seemed like it would only be a matter of time before the switch-hitter would be on his way out of town.
For the Astros, the deal looks to be a good step in rebuilding.
It allows them ...
The Lance Berkman trade isn’t even official yet and the word is that the Yankees are already moving on. According to both Buster Olney and Jack Curry, the Yankees are working on other deals and expect to make at least one, maybe two, more trades.
What else are the Yankees looking for? Well, they’ve added a full-time DH, but they still need an outfielder that can hit lefties. The ideal person would be somebody who can start in left field so the Yankees can move Brett Gardner to center ...