If the competition for the Yankees' No. 5 starter's spot is truly a five-man race, frontrunners Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes would currently rank fourth and fifth on the depth chart.
After Chad Gaudin, Sergio Mitre and Alfredo Aceves each turned in two scoreless innings of work in Wednesday's spring opener against the Pirates, Hughes and Chamberlain both struggled in their first outings on Friday.
Hughes started the game against the Rays and nearly gave up a home run on the second pitch he threw to leadoff man Jason Bartlett, but the ...
In yesterday's Spring Training game against the Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees fans got what was, for many, their first look at two young catchers in the Yankee organization.
Austin Romine took over behind the plate for Jorge Posada. Romine looked very steady behind the plate in his set up and how quiet he was receiving pitches.
He also showed good agility, blocking several balls in the dirt even though there were no Phillies runners on the bases.
The only criticism this observer would have of Romine in this very brief look at ...
After losing the 1964 World Series to the St. Louis Cardinals, the Yankees fired manager Yogi Berra and hired the manager who had beaten them in that World Series, Johnny Keane.
World Champions Again? Keane, like so many others, failed to realize that the key Yankees' players were mere shells of themselves. He never got to know them, and they never knew the real Johnny Keane.
It had been difficult for Yogi Berra to take ...
This is supposed to be the new Alex Rodriguez—the clean one who no longer has any connection with steroids, the one with the giant gorilla off his back, and the one who no longer cares about numbers, just winning.
Then why are the Yankees pissed off at him? Bob Raissman of the NY Daily News tells you why :
"Certain members of the Yankees high command are very, very angry with Alex Rodriguez.
"No one likes being deceived, especially these suits. They are furious over A-Rod hanging them out to dry, not immediately ...
I was inspired to write this post after I found this article on the Baseball Think Factory comparing some players around the league to beers. It was a good article even though he called Mariano Rivera a Sam Adams Boston Lager. But it got me to start wondering who some of the Yankees would be if they were beers...read more.
For instance, if Derek Jeter were a beer, what beer would he be?
Jeter would be Budweiser. All-American and even though not everyone loves him you can’t deny his popularity ...
Here are some news and stories of note from yesterday:
The Yankees lost in a walk-off 3-2 to the Phillies yesterday.
CC Sabathia pitched, 2 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 0 SO, and said afterwards he was “so-so”.
Nick Johnson was scratched with a stiff lower back he tweaked in the batting cage.
Austin Romine and Zach McAllister won the 2009 Kevin Lawn “Player of the Year” and “Pitcher of the Year” awards.
Jesus Montero played yesterday and got a single in one at bat. He also spoke with ...
As most of you know by now, the defending World Series champions have some roster questions to sort out this spring. Every couple days I will provide updates on those battles and see who has the edge at any given time.
I may throw a few extra names into the battles for comparison's sake.
To see the updated spring training stats, go to
Tim Marchman of Sports Illustrated recently ranked the 30 general managers in baseball and the Yankees GM Brian Cashman ranked pretty high at No. 3 behind Andrew Friedman of the Tampa Rays and Theo Epstein of the Boston Red Sox.
3. Brian Cashman, New York Yankees
Cashman’s weakness isn’t a small one — the Yankees, the only team in baseball to routinely run $200 million payrolls, have recently been spending about four times as much per win as the Rays. Why, then, does he rank so high? His four world championships ...
The offseason is over and the Yankees roster is pretty much set, but since they signed relief pitcher Chan Ho Park there has been a glut of relievers and something has got to give. Whether it be an injury or two that solves the logjam or even a trade—that has yet to be seen.
Two of the pitchers that are seemingly on the bubble though are Sergio Mitre and Chad Gaudin. They’re two pitchers who fill the same role, long relief/emergency starter, and because the Yankees rotation and bullpen project ...
Here are some newsworthy bits that didn’t quite have enough to make a story out of, but are important anyways:
Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated spoke with some MLB executives that believe Derek Jeter will ask for a 6-year-deal which would cover him until he’s 42, the same age A-Rod will be when his contract expires.
The Yankees are playing this afternoon, but the game won’t be televised, at least in New York, until 7:00pm tonight. But in Chad Jennings’ game thread he pointed out that Nick Johnson was scratched from ...