According to Joel Sherman of the NY Post, the Yankees tried, but have given up on trying to trade for Nationals slugger Adam Dunn.
The Yankees have offered their top prospects in deals for pitchers Cliff Lee and Dan Haren, but have not done so in any deals for Dunn. The supposed reason for this is because the Yankees viewed Lee and Haren as real difference makers and Dunn as more of a bonus than a necessity.
They do have the most potent offense in baseball, leading the league ...
There is no denying the fact that Alex Rodriguez is having a bit of an off-year.
Entering July, his batting average and slugging percentage have dropped and he hasn’t been quite as patient at the plate. In July, he started turning things around, at least power-wise, by cracking five homers in the first 17 games of the month. His average and patience hadn’t totally returned, but it was a start.
Then he hit home run No. 599.
Since that time, just six games, A-Rod has gone cold. In that span, he has ...
By now, the biggest question surrounding Alex Rodriguez’s 600th home run may not be where/what section in the stadium, but when.
Two long weeks ago, here at SeatGeek, we released our initial report on where Alex Rodriguez’s 600th home run may land at Yankee Stadium. There was a substantial likelihood that A-Rod would hit the milestone home run towards the end of the Yankees’ nine game home stand which began after the All-Star break.
One week ago, A-Rod hit career home run No. 599, and had three games left on the current home stand ...
Last July, I wrote a story titled "Joba Chamberlain for Roy Halladay: Would You Pull the Trigger? " I did this with a straight face. There were no drugs in my system at the time. It seems laughable now, but there was logic to it in the salad days of 2009. Chamberlain's breakout 2007 season was still somewhat fresh, and he had shown enough potential as a starter to make you think he would eventually develop into a front-line pitcher. Most people who commented on the story didn't ...
Alex Rodriguez once again failed to hit home run No. 600 (he did hit one off the right field wall), but the Yankees won 8-0 in an easy game against the Indians anyway.
Here are some notes:
AJ Burnett got the win, he is now 3-0 with a 2.00 ERA in July.
Kei Igawa continues to disappoint, and everyone wants him out. And the Yankees would have had to take a luxury tax hit if they had traded him.
Joel Sherman of the Post warns us that it ...
New York Yankees CC Sabathia had a rare loss in his old stomping ground Tuesday night, falling 4-1 to the Cleveland Indians.
The Yankees are in first place, with a margin of only two games before they get caught.
This added a lot of pressure on an already erratic AJ Burnett. It was mandatory that Burnett put the team in a winning position.
Burnett surpassed all that was required, as he dominated the Indians batters. Burnett’s teammates helped make sure he had a chance to shine again and the Yankees won 8-0.
Another factor ...
The two best teams in baseball will meet this weekend in the Dome in St Pete. The New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays will get it on for perhaps the upper hand going down the stretch.
August is upon us.
This is when baseball really gets interesting.
The cream will rise to the top and the pretenders will start to fold. The winner of this series will be cream. The loser will still be cream too. This is the type of series that, if you're a baseball fan, you have to watch.
The ...
First off, let me begin by stating the fact that I am not a Yankee fan. With all due respect, I despise them. Any fan of the Toronto Blue Jays, as I am, MUST loathe the men in pinstripes.
I am, however, a huge fan of baseball history and any baseball fan knows Yankee history is synonymous with baseball history.
Despite my allegiance to the Blue Jays, my favorite player of all time is Mickey Mantle. I have always respected the way he played the game and I firmly believe that ...
As Alex Rodriguez closes in on becoming just the seventh player all-time to hit 600 home runs (and the youngest ever to do so), there is not as much attention to this potentially huge milestone as there would usually be. And the reason? A-Rod’s association with performance enhancing drugs.
With this milestone looming, it seams like an appropriate time to revisit an old debate; do players who have been associated with steroids and HGH deserve to be inducted into the Hall of Fame?
Based on the information we have available at this point, yes ...
Wednesday night, the New York Yankees continued their series in Cleveland against the Indians. Just one day after being shut down by Indians pitcher Josh Tomlin in his major league debut.
In the top of the first, Alex Rodriguez drove a single to center to score Mark Teixeira, getting the scoring started. Rodriguez is still chasing after the 600th home run of his career, which seems to be elusive for the Yankees third baseman. One night after weakly bouncing out to short to end the game as the tying runner, Rodriguez ...