A League of His Own: A+
Mariano Rivera (Yankees): At first I wanted to put Paplebon and Broxton in the same class as Rivera (Joe Nathan also if he wasn’t hurt), but then I looked at the stats and teams they were on. In Paplebon’s case, he was a little shaky last season and has already recorded a loss this year. Broxton is a flame thrower and undoubtedly has some of the best stuff in the game, but he won’t get nearly as many chances as Mo.
Can They Either Keep ...
George Steinbrenner purchased the New York Yankees for $10 million in January 1973. Since that time, New York has won 11 AL pennants and seven World Series titles. In addition, several trades have brought in players who directly had an impact on the Yankees success.
I have compiled the Top 10 Yankee trades of the George Steinbrenner Era. Some of the criteria used in ranking the trades include, success of players traded to New York, number of championships won by players traded to New York and lack of success for ...
It's six down, 156 to go for the Yankees, who escaped Boston and Tampa with a perfectly acceptable 4-2 record. With the home opener set for Tuesday, River & Sunset takes a look back on the first week of the 2010 season.
That heavyset gentleman with the gentle smile and powerful left arm, he may be pretty good!
CC Sabathia nearly pitched a no-hitter on Saturday against the Rays, flirting with history until the immortal Kelly Shoppach singled to left with two outs in the eighth.
Sabathia exited immediately following the base ...
We are one week into the 2010 MLB season, and we already have some players burning up the base paths.
Each week, I will give my top 10 players vying for the American League MVP award. I will not have pitchers in this list, because they have the Cy Young award. Yes, pitchers can win the MVP award, but i will not include them on my list.
Top 10 after one week of play:
10. Franklin Gutierrez (Seattle): 12-27, .444 avg. Gutierrez had a career year last year, and he isn't slowing up. ...
Entering spring training it was generally regarded that Ramiro Pena had the inside track to win the Yankees' utility infielder position.
But despite the experience he received in 2009, it was hardly a given that the job was his because the Yankees had three other possibilities on their 40-man roster—Reegie Corona, Eduardo Nunez, and Kevin Russo.
All four are nearly major league ready, and even though the Yankees went with Pena they easily could have picked any of them.
Corona was probably the least likely just because he is so similar to Pena ...
It's only April, but the New York Yankees already look like winners. I'm not ready to declare them playoff bound yet, but might be doing so before the month is out.
That's because the next four series are almost as crucial as the ones that the Yankees just won.
The Yankees took two out of three EACH against the two stronger division rivals, the Boston Red Sox, and the Tampa Bay Rays on the road.
While it's true that the 4-2 Yankees are in second place in the AL East, that's only ...
The Yankees opened the 2010 season by playing their most hated rivals, the Boston Red Sox, on the road to start the year.
The Yankees won two of the three games to win the first series against Boston, a major confidence booster.
After Boston, the Yankees traveled to play another tough AL East division rival in the Tampa Bay Rays.
The first game went poorly for Javier Vazquez, and the Yankees took a 9-3 loss.
In the second game, CC Sabathia threw 7.2 innings of no-hit baseball before Kelly Shoppach broke up the potentially ...
Fans are what makes this game great. The fans are what make the players try that much harder and they're the reason that the ninth inning is the most exciting inning in baseball.
They stand during big plays, they explode on a big strikeout or a go-ahead RBI.
Fans aren't always the same. They think differently, they react differently, and they expect different things, some more irrational than others. Fans expect their team to spend money, they want the best players regardless of the cost.
But we're not here to talk about what ...
Just one year ago, the crop of pitchers expected to hit the free agent market was pretty impressive: Roy Halladay, Josh Beckett, Cliff Lee, Brandon Webb, among others.
But elite starting pitchers are a rare commodity, and teams have been aggressive in locking these guys up.
Now that list is just down to Cliff Lee and Brandon Webb. But Webb is a serious injury concern and probably won’t even warrant a long-term deal, which leaves just Lee, as expected, to hit the free agent market. Things won’t be better in future free ...
This might be nothing or it might be big, according to Josh Norris of the Trentonian, Yankees top pitching prospect 19-year-old left handed pitcher Manny Banuelos was scratched from his scheduled start yesterday.
That could mean he has the flu or it could mean that he needs elbow surgery. Some people were guessing that it could have been a promotion to Double-A Trenton to fill Christian Garcia’s place, but that idea was debunked when somebody else was named in Garcia’s place.
A lot of other people are jumping to conclusions. I wouldn’t ...