I come at this with a bias; this I admit willingly.
You see, I am a Tampa Bay Rays fan.
I would love nothing more than to see the Evil Empire crumble and fall and watch Hank Steinbrenner go off his meds and give his best "like father, like son."
Every year I hope that the "aging" Yankees finally, well, show their age.
Every year people wonder when these three players' stars will begin to dim.
The born-and-raised Yankees, Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, and Mariano Rivera, have made it into the second generation of Steinbrenners. Jeter, 35, ...
Anyone who has ever been to any single game at Yankee Stadium knows the scene: It’s a musty May night, and the game has been moving along swiftly, maybe a run here and there. Around the fifth inning, about the same time as the Great New York Subway Race and the YMCA, you start to hear a metal pan being hit across the stadium. That pan belongs to the one and only...Freddy Sez.
So who is Freddy? His real name is Freddy Schuman, born in 1925 and raised in the Bronx. ...
At first glance, it looks like baseball and competitive balance run on parallel lines. There are the Yankees with their 27 World Championships and the Pittsburgh Pirates who have not had a winning season since 1992.
Those two franchises met in the epic 1960 World Series when Bill Mazeroski won it with a Game Seven ninth-inning home run. 1960 was during a run where the Yankees played in 14 out of 16 World Series.
The league championship series did not come into being until 1969, so that meant that in a 16-year span, ...
With Phil Hughes likely the team’s fifth starter and Curtis Granderson firmly in place as the team’s center fielder, the Yankees are just about set for the season.
Now we just have to find out who the utility infielder is, exactly how the bullpen is going to be set up, and wait...
Until then, here are some news items to hold you over.
Josh Beckett is one of the bigger names on the free agent market this offseason. Will the Yankees be interested in the Red Sox ace? Friend of the blog Ed ...
All good things must come to an end— unless you're Mariano Rivera, it seems .
Rivera once again enters 2010 as one of baseball’s elite closers, even after turning 40 last November. He’s had an ERA above 1.94 only once in the last seven years, and he’s finished with a WHIP under 1.00 in four of the last five seasons. In the last 13 years, he’s saved fewer than 30 games just once (28 in an injury-shortened 2002 season).
That kind of greatness is on par with Albert Pujols’ nine straight ...
According to Blake Bentley of MLB Trades Rumors, 17-year-old right-handed pitcher Rafael DePaula is expected to sign with a major league team soon with the Yankees and the Mariners listed as the most likely landing spots for the Dominican pitcher.
Rumors have connected to Yankees to DePaula for about a month now , but he threw in front of teams yesterday featuring a fastball in the 92-93 MPH range. Scouts have claimed that DePaula has strong potential and best case scenario he could end up as a front of the rotation ...
The Yankees were in an unfamiliar spot on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. They had lost the first game of the World Series they night before, dropping a 6-1 decision in Game One. Yankee fans everywhere were frightened to see the Bronx Bombers down 0-1 to a team like the Philadelphia Phillies.
Even more frightening was the fact that the Yanks were sending the enigmatic A.J. Burnett to the mound, a mostly inconsistent number two starter with a 13-9 regular season record. The Yankees were unsure for most of the second half of the ...
The Yankees have yet to make an official announcement, but according to Joel Sherman of the NY Post, in the next couple of days they will announce that the winner of the fifth spot in the rotation will be Phil Hughes:
There are still meetings this week, still final statements that could be offered, still an injury that can change minds and needs. But this was a competition in the faintest of ways. As I reported in early February, the Yankees brass was going to enter spring privately ...
As Yankee bloggers we all bow down to River Ave Blues and they had another great couple of articles over the past two days going over Brian Cashman’s best and worst trades as the Yankees GM.
Cashman’s best trades: 3. Nick Swisher 2. Bobby Abreu 1. Alex Rodriguez
Cashman’s worst trades: 5. Ramon Ramirez 4. Nick Johnson, Randy Choate, Juan Rivera 3. Ted Lilly 2. Damaso Marte 1. Mike Lowell
Chad Jennings also passed along some news about former Yankees. Dan McCutchen has won the battle for fifth starter over ...
The Yankees are expected to announce this morning that Curtis Granderson will indeed become their starting center fielder and will not play much left field, if at all, according to Joel Sherman of the NY Post.
Granderson roamed center field in all his years with the Detroit Tigers, but there was speculation that the Yankees would move him to left field after general manager Brian Cashman made the claim that Brett Gardner might be the best defensive center fielder in all of baseball.
On top of that, there were rumblings that Granderson’s ...