Trade speculation surrounding the Yankees in recent days has centered on starting pitching, but their most pressing need is bullpen help.
With Joba Chamberlain continuing to falter in the all important eighth inning role and his ERA approaching six, memories of his dominance are fading fast. Joakim Soria, one of the most underrated closers in baseball, is available and can solve the eighth inning dilemma as well as succeed Mariano Rivera whenever he rides off into the sunset.
Despite Chamberlain’s struggles, he still has value on the market as evidenced by Arizona ...
With top starting pitchers Cliff Lee and Dan Haren off the market, the New York Yankees seem to have shifted their trade deadline focus to bullpen help. Once the Yankees strong point, the bullpen is a bit of a mess right now outside of closer Mariano Rivera.
Joba Chamberlain has struggled this season in his eighth inning role. For the Yankees to go deep into the playoffs, they will likely need someone to step into that role and be a shutdown-type pitcher. Thoughts of David Robertson taking over the job have ...
Don't look now, New York, but what former New York Yankees' pitcher, who won nine games in his four seasons with New York,, is 12-6, with a 3.26 ERA? Minnesota Twins' ace Carl Pavano has hurled five complete games, two of them shutouts, and has become one of the American League's premier starting pitchers. A significant statistic is that Pavano is third in the league with 143 and two-thirds innings pitched. Yes, folks, Carl Pavano can give his team ...
The other day we heard that the Yankees weren’t interested in LHP Ted Lilly, but apparently missing out on your top choice can change things. According to Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated , the Yankees are now considering Lilly and will not make an attempt at Roy Oswalt.
Lilly, 34, is actually a former Yankee whom they included in a deal with the Tigers and A’s for Jeff Weaver back in 2002. Safe to say that deal didn’t work out the way the Yankees had planned. Lilly is a decent, but ...
Dan Haren is now an Angel. Rumor has it that the Diamondbacks would have traded him to the Yankees if they could have gotten (among other things) Joba Chamberlain. Arizona was reportedly willing to take Joba and his 5.95 ERA off the Yankees hands, and give him a fresh start in the desert.
But the Yankees said no. Why?
Were they afraid the change of scenery would do him good, so much so that he'd make the Yankees look bad? Maybe they feel so much remorse for the Joba Rules that they feel they have an obligation to ...
With less than a week to go before the 2010 trade deadline, the baseball
rumor-mill is heating up.
Teams such as the Houston Astros and Cleveland Indians will look to become sellers, as they begin to build towards their future.
While other teams such as the Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox will become buyers, with hopes of trading for a player that turns them into a World Series champion come October.
For most of the teams in the majors, their seasons have already been decided, but for ...
The New York Yankees finished the weekend taking three of four games from the Kansas City Royals.
The Yankees continue to lead the majors, and the AL East, with a 62-35 record.
The Tampa Bay Rays are just three games behind, which leaves little room for error. The ailing Boston Red Sox trail by eight and better not make the gap any bigger.
This scenario dictates nothing except that the Yankees are playing very good baseball right now.
Still, the Yankees recently lost pitcher Andy Pettitte for four to six weeks. Along with a ...
With the recent trade of Dan Haren, the trade market is slowly beginning to diminish. Although Andy Pettitte wants to return now, Joe Girardi is playing the safe card and resting him. He surely doesn’t want to re-injure a pitcher of his caliber.
In order to secure a consistent one through five rotation, the Yankees should acquire a starter.Begin Slideshow
We’ll have to wait another day for Alex Rodriguez‘s 600th home run as he went homerless against the Royals when the Yankees beat them 12-6 in a wet one this afternoon.
Here are some notes:
Phil Hughes 's ERA went above 4.00 for the first time this year, but he won anyways and is now 12-3. Joba Chamberlain surrendered a two-run home run. Alex Rodriguez was the offensive star of the game despite not homering. He left the game early , though, after getting beaned on the forearm. He’s ...
Earlier this week, I took a look at one of the primary concerns for the Yankees as they head into the dog days of summer, the suddenly fragile state of the starting rotation. In the subsequent games since my article, we have been treated to a well-diversified display of the myriad issues facing the Yankees starting pitching. In the week of games since the Tampa Bay series, the rotation has had its share of ups and downs, which is certainly not an uncommon occurrence for any rotation. The timing ...