Archive for January, 2011
MLB Rumors: New York Yankees Considering Andruw Jones »
Via Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated: Andruw Jones in on the Yankees list of righty hitting OFs to consider. I wanted to bring this one up to kind of debunk it a little. I’m not saying that the Yankees aren’t considering Jones, it’s very possible that they are, but Jones just happens to be a Scott Boras client and Heyman has a [...]
Andy Pettitte Will Help NY Yankees Back To The World »
Now that Andy Pettitte has returned from his Hawaiian Hau'oli Makahiki Hou, it's hard to tell who's awaiting his plans for next season with greater anticipation: Yankee fans or Yankee....ummm...shall we say, non-fans. While his return certainly would be cause for a cheer by the former, if he decides to retire, it will hardly be cause for a funeral [...]
MLB Rumors: New York Yankees Interested in Jeremy »
The Yankees have been scouring the market for a starting pitcher, but so far that search has turned up a lot of bad pitchers. Apparently they are looking into another—Jeremy Bonderman, according to Jon Paul Morosi of Fox Sports. Bonderman, 28, has spent his entire career with the Detroit Tigers. His career ERA-plus is just 90. His career [...]
MLB 2011: How The New York Yankees Stack Up To The »
As we creep our way to the start of Spring Training for the 2011 MLB season, we begin to see teams take the forms of the finished products we will see on opening day. There is of course still time for moves to be made as a handful of impact free agents remain. However for the most part these are the teams we will be seeing on Opening Day [...]
Brian Cashman’s Wasted Winter Leaves New York »
COURTESY OF YANKEES 'N MORE The holidays, and 2010 along with them, are over. We head into the second day of the first work week of 2011, and Brian Cashman, well, he continues to do what he's done all winter...NOTHING. Well, that's not exactly true. Cashman did manage to wake up long enough to sign a lefty specialist, who has never [...]
The 2011 New York Yankees: What Needs To Be Done to »
The big story of the off season is how the Yankees, for the first time in years, didn't get their man or really any man for that matter. Cliff Lee chose elsewhere, they didn't jump for Greinke, no big bats where added. Instead, they made a few gambles by picking up players who are attempting to come back from injuries. The only [...]
New York Yankees’ Waiting Game Continues with »
At the end of 2010 season, New York Yankees ace Andy Pettitte used the word retirement when speaking to Yankees GM Brian Cashman about whether he would return to the team in 2011. For the last two seasons, Pettitte made it pretty clear that his intentions were to return for another season but the final decision would be made with his [...]
MLB Rumors: Soria Won’t Block Trade to New York »
The Yankees have been searching for ways to upgrade their pitching staff since missing out on Cliff Lee, but the free agent market was shallow this offseason and they are unwilling to pay closer money for set-up men, meaning their options are very limited. But maybe they’re only willing to overpay for the available set-up men, and if one [...]
MLB Rumors: New York Yankees Interested in Bartolo »
The Yankees are reportedly interested in signing free agent starter Bartolo Colon according to the Spanish AP (H/T to MLB Trade Rumors for the translation). Without any big names on the free agent market, the Yankees seem to be looking at pitchers who are higher risk/higher reward types. This will keep costs down while providing more time for [...]
New York Yankees: 10 Reasons Andy Pettitte Holds AL »
When Andy Pettitte walked off the mound and headed towards the dugout after recording the final out of the seventh inning of Game 3 of the ALCS, he may have been wondering if he had just thrown the final pitch of his major league career. If you're a Yankees fan, you're probably thinking something along the lines of, "He better not have!" or [...]