The Yankees started the second half of the 2010 season with some bad luck.
In Saturday's game against the Rays, A.J. Burnett slammed his hands against a door, which cut them up and forced an early exit from the game. He has said he won't miss a turn, but whether or not he will be able to pitch effectively has yet to be determined.
Then on Sunday's game against the Rays, Andy Pettitte threw a pitch against Kelly Shoppach and came up holding his groin. After trying to convince Joe Girardi and ...
On an episode of the hit FOX television series “Glee," highly competitive and aggressive cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester calls three of her cheerleaders into her office to express her disappointment in them for failing to sabotage McKinley High School’s Glee Club.
After giving them one of her biting lectures, she asks the girls to smell their armpits.
“That is the smell of failure,” she tells them. “And it is stinking up my office.”
A.J. Burnett may want to take Sue Sylvester’s advice and check his own body odor for the ...
CC Sabathia will officially turn 30 years old on Wednesday, but he celebrated in style with his teammates and Jay-Z at his 40-40 club in New York last night.
The big lefty is also having another fantastic season with a record of 12-3 and an ERA of 3.13; his 12 wins are tied for the league lead.
There is no doubt that he is at the top of his game and might be in line for his second Cy Young award in his career, a career that has garnered him 148 wins ...
It's not working.
When the Yankees acquired center fielder Curtis Granderson this past winter in a trade with the Tigers for top prospect Austin Jackson, New York knew that Granderson struggled against left-handed pitching.
Last year, Granderson, who only hit .249 overall, batted a measly .183 versus southpaws. But the Bombers thought they could turn him around with the help of hitting coach Kevin Long.
As of July 19, the 29-year-old is batting .216 with a horrid .295 slugging percentage against lefties.
He's not much better facing right-handers, putting up a .237 average overall ...
It doesn’t take a hardcore sabermetrician to realize that the All-Star vote is a sham. After all, the best catcher in the game (Miguel Olivo) received only the 11th-most votes at his position, and Omar Infante made the cut while MVP candidate Ryan Zimmerman had to sit at home (not the fans’ fault, but still).
But even if it’s impossible to distinguish the game’s best players by looking at the vote totals, I wondered if it would be possible to gather some more unorthodox information from the results: namely, the impact ...
Alex Rodriguez hit his 598th home run yesterday in a 9-5 win over the Tampa Bay Rays in Yankee Stadium.
Alex Rodriguez needs only two more home runs to become the seventh member of the exclusive 600 homers club and hopes to join the even more exclusive 700 homers club in about three years. The 700 homers club only has three members in Babe Ruth with 714, Hank Aaron with 755 and Barry Bonds with 762.
Rodriguez needs 21 runs batted in to become the 20th member of the 1,800 RBI club. ...
From the off-season acquisition of Paul O'Neil in 1992, to the blockbuster trade that brought Alex Rodriguez from the Texas Rangers to the Bronx, George Steinbrenner has made a handful of pivotal trades during his time as New York Yankees owner.
Some of his deals were done during the offseason, while others (David Cone in 1995) were done prior to the trade deadline.
I've been fortunate to be a Yankee fan my entire life, but until George Steinbrenner passed away, I never realized how lucky I was to have "The Boss" as ...
The July 31st trade deadline is right around the corner and it looks to be a very active couple of days. Teams like the Padres, Rangers, Reds, and White Sox are all contending—but need that extra piece of the puzzle to put them over the top.
The Yankees recent injury woes leave them searching for a top flight starter. After missing out on Cliff Lee they are targeting the next best thing in Houston's Roy Oswalt. But the Yanks are only one of the many suitors going after Oswalt.
Corey ...
New York Yankees starting pitcher AJ Burnett took the mound against the Tampa Bay Rays Saturday afternoon.
Burnett was pulled in the third inning, marking his shortest outing in pinstripes. This time Burnett's frustrations got the better of him, which certainly did not go well over with his teammates.
In the first inning Burnett gave up a double to Carlos Pena that scored Evan Longoria. In the top of the second inning, the Rays' Reid Brignac hit a two-run homer that put the Rays ahead of the Yankees 3-2.
It was not keen, but ...
The Yankees' bullpen looked good today in relief of Andy Pettitte, who lest after two-thirds innings pitched due to a Grade 1 groin strain, which will keep him out a projected 4-5 weeks.
This puts the Yankees in a very precarious position for several reasons.
The bullpen has now pitched over 13 innings in the past two games, because of A.J. Burnett's injury from his clubhouse rampage yesterday and Pettitte's groin injury today.
Needless to say, but 13 innings over the course of two games is a tall order for any bullpen, let alone the Yankees ...