Fair warning: this post is a rant about Javier Vazquez.
Here’s what I don’t get about the Javier Vazquez trade: How is it not a bigger deal? Let’s look at what Brian Cashman did.
He turned a young outfielder, who for his career has been a league average player at best and was due over $3 million in arbitration, along with a promising but very far away pitching prospect, into a front-line starter.
Yet there exist people who don’t think this was a good deal for the Yankees? Yes, I know Vazquez ...
The Yankees' backup catcher, Francisco Cervelli, has been diagnosed with a mild hamstring injury that will most likely have him knocked out of the Yankees' lineup for the rest of spring training.
Joe Girardi, manager of the Yankees, has announced that the Yankees will take an in-depth look at Cervelli every day and list him as a day-to-day injury.
Opening Day for the Yankees is on Sunday, and the Boston Red Sox are eager to take them on and get an early lead in the American League East.
The Yankees are looking to ...
Thank heaven for durable hegemons.
The New York Yankees are terrible for Major League Baseball’s competitive balance. They’re also great for Major League Baseball’s television ratings. On the eve of the 2010 season, the Bronx Bombers look primed for yet another run at the World Series—which would be worse news if it weren’t so much fun to root against them in their pursuit.
Comity means getting along with your rivals.
Conflict, on the other hand, means getting in touch with your roots.
I’m not suggesting that our collective Yankee hatred is entirely becoming. There’s ...
If you were a pitcher and you looked at a batting order that featured Derek Jeter leading off, Alex Rodriguez hitting sixth and Robinson Cano hitting ninth, you would probably scratch your brow a little.
What a minute, did I say A-Rod hitting sixth and not fourth? And Cano hitting ninth and not fifth?
Yeah, that's what I said, because I'm not talking about the 2010 edition of the Bombers.
I'm talking about an all time Yankee batting order that would look something like this.
SS Derek Jeter
CF Joe Dimaggio
RF ...
It is April 1. As I write this I can look out the window at blooming forsythias and fat robins hopping in too green grass.
In three days, baseball starts for real with my team opening in Fenway Park. The New York Yankees are the greatest team in the history of the game and begin the new year defending their 27th world title.
But as an undying, but objective, fan of the Yankees, they will not win their 28th title in 2010 and they will not repeat as victors of the AL ...
Brett Gardner has been projected to the American League MVP for 2010.
With Opening Day only three days away, Gardner has been picked by any number of baseball experts to garner his first MVP award.
He is projected to hit .325, score 125 runs and steal 135 bases.
April Fools! Sorry, couldn't resist.
As of now, Gardner has had a horrible Spring Training at the plate. He is hitting .200 after going 0-4 in the Yankees loss yesterday.
In the meantime the player he may have replaced in the Yankee outfield, Melky Cabrera, went 1-3 ...
Here we find ourselves, days before the beginning of yet another exciting baseball season. Opening Day marks the beginning of a long journey for thirty teams that are hungry to become World Series Champions. While outsiders may have different expectations, each team wants to be the last one standing.
The reigning World Series Champion New York Yankees will look to repeat with a younger, more athletic roster. Although some of the same faces are still there, others have departed. Hideki Matsui, Melky Cabrera and Johnny Damon have all found ...
Dear Red Sox fans,
As a Yankee fan, I'll be the first to admit a little bias in my belief that the greatest organization in Major League Baseball plays in the Bronx.
However, the Boston media in general, and several publications and writers there in particular, have elevated the fan-baiting and rivalry-stirring between our two teams to childishly absurd proportions.
On the eve of the new season and with apparently nothing positive to write about, one writer wrote a story that caught my eye today, its premise being a list of the 10 ...
When Pat Venditte came on to pitch for the Yankees against the Braves a few days ago, I was excited. As a fan with an interest in the Yankees farm system, I enjoy spring training because it gives me a chance to see some of the young guys that otherwise I wouldn't.
Venditte is not a flashy name, nor will you find him high up on any of the top prospect lists. Rather, his intrigue lies in the astounding fact that he is of the rarest baseball commodities—a switch pitcher.
Gifted with ...
Spring is in the air. Birds are chirping, flowers are blooming and baseball bats are cracking. That only means one thing...Opening Day is right around the corner.
But just because the season begins in just five days doesn't mean we can't predict who will still be playing in six months, right? Right. So, without further adieu, here are my very very very early final standings predictions for the 2010 season, American League East edition.Begin Slideshow