The New York Yankees may have problems, but let's not go overboard. New York and the Yankees are still a draw, still an attractive destination for players.Even if the team happens to be coming off a playoff-less 2013 campaign, it was only the second such over the past 19 seasons.Even if longtime stars Mariano Rivera and Andy Pettitte are gone, and captain Derek Jeter is on his last legs, the club still has top-down stability in longtime general manager Brian Cashman and returning manager Joe Girardi.Even if the unending Alex Rodriguez ...
In New York, the Yankees are preparing to spend money like it's 2008 all over again. Five years after drowning their third-place finish sorrows away by spending over $400 million combined on CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira and A.J. Burnett, the Yankees are poised to hand out big-money deals. The names have changed, but the objective remains to spend.According to CBSSports.com's Jon Heyman, the Yankees are heading to next week's general manager meetings armed with cash to spend on free agents. After watching the steady and reliable Andy Pettitte retire and ...
The anticipation and speculation leading up to a Major League Baseball season is unlike that of any other sport. As soon as the last out of the final game of a World Series is recorded, the calculation and dreaming for a campaign still five months away begins.
For the New York Yankees, 2014 can't get here fast enough. The sooner they can get the disappointment of 2013 in their rear-view mirror, the better.
Faced with a turnover not seen in the Bronx in close to two decades, Yankees fans have taken to ...
Alex Rodriguez continues to be the gift that keeps on giving for the New York Yankees organization.
Nearly a full decade after acquiring him from Texas, and six years after forking over another contract worth over $275 million, A-Rod's chokehold on New York's bottom line continues to drag on.According to Yankees manager Joe Girardi, per Andrew Marchand of ESPN New York, the organization's offseason plans are complicated by the drawn-out nature of Rodriguez's appeal on the impending 211-game suspension that stemmed from the Biogenesis scandal."It's important that we know," Girardi said ...
In reality, Brian Cashman is on the path to becoming one of less than 30 executives in The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. In New York, his job is critiqued and questioned on a yearly basis.Since taking over for Bob Watson as Yankees general manager in 1998, the franchise has produced one of the greatest runs of success in baseball history. During Cashman's reign, the Yankees have made 14 trips to the postseason, nine appearances in the American League Championship Series, six World Series visits and captured four ...
I've come here to praise the New York Yankees, not to bury them. It was a valiant effort this season to stay in contention as long as they did.
As someone who watched the trainwreck that was the 2012 Boston Red Sox, I have a ton of admiration for what the Yankees and manager Joe Girardi managed to do despite the numerous injuries and poor performances from most of the Yankees roster this past season.
But as the offseason begins, the Yankees find themselves at a crossroads, as a team with a ...
The New York Yankees are preparing for life after Robinson Cano, or so it seems.
According to CBS Sports' Jon Heyman, the Yankees have made contact with the Cincinnati Reds about second baseman Brandon Phillips:
Phillips is said to be available in the right trade, but word is, the initial price is way too steep. Of course, that's the way the Yankees look at Cano's $300 million asking price, as well.
Phillips batted .261 with 103 RBI for the Reds, but is on the market after a couple incidents—one where he complained in ...
The New York Yankees are certainly afraid that second baseman Robinson Cano might be leaving in free agency, as general manager Brian Cashman has reached out to Cincinnati Reds GM Walt Jocketty regarding the availability of All-Star second baseman Brandon Phillips, according to Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com.
The price is apparently very high, and understandably so. Phillips is arguably the best defensive second baseman in the game, routinely making highlight-reel grabs and throws that not many other middle infielders could make.
Phillips was a Gold Glove winner for the fourth time in his ...
The New York Yankees are about to embark on their most important offseason in years.
They just sat back and watched their biggest rivals, the Boston Red Sox, complete a worst-to-first turnaround and win the 2013 World Series.
With several major contracts coming off the books and more than $80 million to spend on free agents, the Yankees have the opportunity to right the ship quickly.
The key will be avoiding the bad contracts that have plagued them in free agency past.
I have a strong feeling that general manager Brian Cashman has learned ...
The New York Yankees have several difficult decisions ahead this offseason, but following a blueprint would help to mitigate the tough choices that general manager Brian Cashman will inevitably have to make.
It wasn't a great season in New York. Sure, recently re-signed manager Joe Girardi did the best he could with a roster decimated by injury, but his team failed to miss the postseason for just the second time in the past 19 seasons. To make matters worse, they had to watch the Boston Red Sox win their third World ...