According to all papers, Yankees senior vice president Mark Newman was charged with a DUI Monday night in Tampa.
Here is a statement released by the Yankees:
“The New York Yankees do not condone this kind of behavior,” the statement said. “We take this situation seriously and we are looking into the matter. We will have no further comment at this time.”
This is funny, not in a ha ha way, but in more of a sad way. Just a few years ago George Steinbrenner was set to hand control of the team ...
Joe Pepitone became the New York Yankees' first baseman when Bill Skowron was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers following the 1962 season.
The Yankees had signed Pepitone in 1958, and after spending four seasons in the minors, Joe joined the big team for the 1962 season. While a student at Manual Trades High School in Brooklyn, Joe was shot in the stomach in a schoolyard dispute in 1957.
When he signed with the Yankees, one ...
While running a major league team, there are only so many ways you can gain a real advantage. Having more capital then your opponent is the easiest way, but teams continually look for other ways to better themselves at an inexpensive price.
This is termed a market inefficiency. Basically, the best thing a team can do is find something of value that isn't being valued properly on the open market.
While many people ignorantly think Michael Lewis's Moneyball is about sabermetrics, this is what it was really about: finding market inefficiencies and ...
Javier Vazquez is the luckiest man in baseball right now, and he probably doesn't even know it.
Imagine a World Series where Bad A.J. shows up instead of Good A.J. in Game Two, or Johnny Damon is thrown out trying to take that extra base in Game Five, or Hideki Matsui rides the pine with a bum knee in Game Six.
Had the Baseball Gods seen things differently, the Yankees may have entered a new decade riding the same ghost train that departed the Bronx in October 2004.
While Vazquez wasn't the conductor ...
According to Jack Curry and Sam Borden, the Yankees have traded reliever Edwar Ramirez to the Texas Rangers for cash considerations.
Ramirez was designated for assignment when the club signed right-hander Chan Ho Park last week. Ramirez, 28, posted a 5.73 ERA and a uncharacteristic 1.22 K/BB ration in 22 innings for the Yankees before a demotion to Scranton. He went on to post a 3.18 ERA and 3.88 K/BB ratio in 59 Triple-A innings. He’ll compete for a bullpen job with the Rangers, but he will likely spend the season ...
Brett Gardner started in center field for the New York Yankees yesterday.
But before all you Brett Gardner fans out there (all 12 of you) get too excited, Curtis Granderson started in center field for the New York Yankees yesterday as well.
The Yankees played split squad games in Florida.
Gardner was 0-for-3 at the plate, dropping his spring training average to .083. He has one bunt hit in 12 times at bat. Meanwhile, headlines out of Tiger land show rave reviews for former Yankee prospect Austin Jackson.
Jackson was traded in the offseason ...
As the New York Yankees opened spring training in 1967, they had many question marks, not the least of which was the status of 38-year-old Whitey Ford.
The greatest pitcher in Yankees' history was a free agent, but only because he didn't want to occupy a spot on the roster until he discovered if he could still pitch.
Physical Problems In Oct. 1964, Ford had surgery to alleviate a circulatory problem that resulted in a ...
Another Oscar night filled with people who are completely useless to society explaining their thoughts and ideals to it while holding a golden naked man has passed, but the quest for a different trophy has begun.
And I, another useless person to society, would like to explain my thoughts and ideas of what each team needs to do to hold the Commissioner's Trophy at the end of the 2010 MLB season.
With spring training beginning, now is the perfect time to get your arguing shoes laced up for another year of baseball.
And ...
So the Johnny Damon-Scott Boras good cop-bad cop feature film is over at last. "The Goodbye Boy Part 5" that played in newspapers, blogs and radio talk shows everywhere has finally come to the end of its run in Detroit.
Was it an epic saga? A melodrama? A romance? A buddy flick?
A little of each probably, but mostly it was a broad farce, and with a surprise ending coming that only long-suffering Tigers fans will be able to appreciate come Opening Day.
With Damon batting behind Yankee prospect-turned-Tiger Austin Jackson, the Tigers ...
Injury after injury after injury. That’s what instantly jumps into my mind when someone asks me what I think of Nick Johnson. How many players have hung around for so long, yet since making his Major League debut in 2001, has only reached 500 AB in a year once?
To be fair, that statement is a little misleading. Thanks to an elite eye at the plate (career 15.6 percent walk rate), he doesn’t have the AB, since a walk isn’t included. Still, he’s only reached 500 plate appearances three times. He’s ...