Archive for January, 2012
NY Yankees News: Will 2012 Be Mariano Rivera’s »
The old adage says, “All good things must come to an end,” like The Wire, day-night doubleheaders and the innocence of Lebron James. Unfortunately, the same axiom reigns true for the “Core Four” of the New York Yankees. It has to end sometime. With the beginning of the 2012 season looming in the distance, the [...]
Baseball Hall of Fame: 11 Current Superstar Hitters »
Next Monday, January 9, a group of accomplished, retired Major League Baseball players—including Jeff Bagwell, Barry Larkin, Tim Raines and Bernie Williams—will find out if they will get the call to the Hall, the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.Their candidacies will be debated here and elsewhere, but what about those [...]
MLB Trade Scenarios: 10 Teams James Shields Could Get »
The trade market has been a busy one thus far this offseason. With the rather sub-par crop of free agent pitchers this offseason, this doesn't come as much of a surprise. Names already changing uniforms include Derek Lowe, Jonathan Sanchez, Trevor Cahill, Mat Latos, and Gio Gonzalez, but there's at least one more starter out there that [...]
New York Yankees Will Be Mostly Unchanged Going into »
As unlikely as it sounds, the New York Yankees will pretty much stand pat this offseason with the exception of bringing back a few key players from last season and some low-risk players. No big splash, no front page headline. General manager Brian Cashman has made it abundantly clear the Yanks will not make anymore mistakes the likes of A.J. [...]
Mark Teixeira: The Yankee Who Never Assumes and Never »
Mark Teixeira epitomizes the approach to the game that is shared by fewer and fewer players today. On June 12, 2009, the New York Mets led the New York Yankees 8-7 going to the bottom of the ninth inning. Frankie Rodriguez, who was coming off an MLB-record 62 saves in 2008, was on the mound in relief of Pedro Feliciano. With Derek Jeter on second [...]
MLB Free Agents 2012: Yankees Will Regret Not Signing »
We have become so accustomed to the New York Yankees spending money that when they fail to get a player signed, it becomes a big deal that fans and analysts like to talk about. That is what has happened now that the team has failed to sign Japanese infielder Hiroyuki Nakajima. According to the official Major League Baseball Twitter feed, [...]
Carlos Zambrano to Marlins: 5 Teams Yankees Could »
Carlos Zambrano was not going to be a part of the Chicago Cubs future. He had a very expensive contract, yet the Cubs were able to deal him.This move could give the Yankees hope that there are teams that would be willing to take A.J. Burnett.To move Zambrano, the Cubs needed to eat a large chunk of his contract. The Yankees would likely need to do [...]
New York Yankees: Starting Pitching Rotation Promises »
2012 is upon us, which means that baseball fans have begun to salivate about the start of spring training in roughly six weeks. No major changes or trades have taken place thus far, and that appears to be the correct course. Joe Girardi seems to be happy with the current starting rotation, and he and Brian Cashman appear to want to take time [...]
New York Yankees Rumors: Is Cole Hamels or Matt Cain a »
In an article written earlier today by Tyler Kepner of the New York Times, he suggested that the reason the Yankees have been so quiet this offseason is because they could be waiting until next winter or perhaps even this season's trade deadline to make a play for free-agent-to-be starters Matt Cain and Cole Hamels.Both pitchers rank among the top [...]
New York Yankees Rumors: Why Edwin Jackson Should Be »
With every other option having failed for the New York Yankees this offseason, they now turn their sights to Edwin Jackson—one of the last and most uncertain starters left on the market.Jackson is looking for around the same money that free-agent starters C.J. Wilson and Mark Buehrle got, which is around $15-17 million.Here's why the Yankees [...]