According to Josh Norris, Yankees prospect right handed pitcher Christian Garcia has undergone Tommy John surgery for the second time in the past four years.
Garcia is actually one of the most talented pitchers the Yankees have in the minor leagues. He’s even been compared to Phil Hughes favorably.
The problem is that he has suffered multiple injuries over the past couple of years in addition to the pair of Tommy John surgeries. His last full season was 2005. He missed parts of the 2006 season, all of 2007, large chunks ...
As if baseball isn’t over-analyzed enough, David Biderman of The Wall Street Journal wrote about data collected by Marquette University that recorded all the 2009 Yankee home run trot times.
What they found out is that slugger Alex Rodriguez not only circles the bases most often, but he also rounds them the slowest.
He is followed by Nick Swisher , Robinson Cano , Jorge Posada , and Mark Teixeira , who are all within two seconds of each other.
Curtis Granderson was the fastest around the bases in ‘09, with Derek Jeter ...
Vazquez has now pitched 20 innings, just under half of Wang's 42 last year. Otherwise, their statistics are eerily similar. Both of them have ERAs in the 9s. Vazquez's FIP, or sabermetric ERA, is 6.32, actually higher than Wang's 5.38 was. (FIP is a formulated "ERA" that uses home runs, strikeouts, and base on balls as inputs.)
That's mainly because Vazquez has already given up five home runs, or one every four innings. Wang gave up only seven during his brief 2009 tenure, or one in six innings. It's true that ...
Battle of the Blogs Fantasy Baseball.
Double G Sports took the overall win against Lady Loves Pinstripes but it was a nail biter. For most of the week, Double G Sports had a commanding lead over the fellow Yankees fan. As the week went on however, Lady Loves Pinstripes closed the gap and caused Double G Sports to get nervous over the weekend.
I eventually secured the 10-9-1 win over Lady Loves Pinstripes. My overall season record after three weeks is now 29-28-3, good for 4th place in the Willie Mays Division. ...
This past off season, the New York Yankees made two trades involving pitchers. They will live to regret both trades.
The first is obvious. The Yankees have lost six games in this young season and three of them are directly attributable to horrendous efforts by Javier Vazquez.
Vazquez was acquired in a trade with the Atlanta Braves to be the Yankees fourth starter. The way he has pitched so far, he should the the fourth member of the grounds crew.
Yesterday, in Anaheim, Vazquez lost his third game of the season going only ...
Brett Gardner finished Saturday's win hitting .340 for the New York Yankees as they won their 12th game over the Angels. He has also stolen nine bases which puts him on a pace to steal about 85 for the year.
Gardner did not start in the series finale in Anaheim on Sunday afternoon as the Yankees lost the game and their first series of the season.
Marcus Thames was in Gardner's place as southpaw Scott Kazmir started for Los Angeles.
Thames did get a hit, a base on balls and scored a run.
But one is ...
Kendry Morales was 3-for-3 with three RBI, and Brandon Wood delivered a clutch two-run double to lead Los Angeles to an 8-4 triumph over New York on Sunday in Anaheim. New York dropped their first series of the season after winning their first five. Los Angeles improved to 19-8 at home against the Yankees dating back to the 2006 season.For the second time in the series, the Yankees were unable to hold an early lead. In the top of the second, Jorge Posada hit his fourth home run of the season, ...
Game One
Yankees 4 Angels 6
W: Rodney L: Chamberlain Sv: Fuentes
The first game of the season was plagued by bad moves made by Joe Girardi, covered in an article by Rob: \”Girardi’s Moves Cost Yankees the Game\” . In the end there were more inconsistencies shown by Joba Chamberlain and a game winning home run by Kendry Morales, who we will see later in the series recap.
Game Two
Yankees 7 Angels 1
W: Pettitte L: Pineiro
Game two was, in his second straight start, the Andy Pettitte show. Andrew Eugene once again gave ...
Ever since the Yankees reacquired Javier Vazquez, fans have been cool to the once former Yankee. Quite a few have remarked how he isn’t a good enough pitcher and some think he brings less value than Melky Cabrera would have.
That was before the season. Since the season has started and Vazquez has had a bad couple of starts, even more fans have jumped all over him. Instead of remembering the years of consistency Vazquez had thrown from 2005-2009 all anyone remembered was his last three starts in Yankee ...
August 10 was the highlight of the 1969 season for New York Yankees fans.
New York's other team, the beloved New York Mets, would not have its greatest moments until October.
The day that Bobby Murcer, Thurman Munson, and Gene Michael hit consecutive home runs in the sixth inning against Oakland made a pedestrian New York Yankees season memorable.
The Yankees finished fifth, a whopping 28-and-one-half games behind the Eastern Division champion Baltimore Orioles, but the Yankees had their moments. ...