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Masahiro Tanaka’s Early Injury Is Ominous Sign »
Now the New York Yankees can fear the worst. A heavy part of their 2015 success is contingent on the health and, therefore, effectiveness of Masahiro Tanaka. The narrative rightfully flowed as something like this: Whichever way their Japanese ace goes, so too shall the Bombers. The Yankees are now in full-blown "hope that isn’t the case" [...]
Yankees Must Avoid Dealing Top Prospects to Save »
The downtrodden possibility is completely realistic. The New York Yankees, for so many years now, have mostly avoided it. Through all the aging, declining and pain, the organization has never punted on a big league season in recent memory by accepting their place within the American League East. When tough times have come, it hit the phones [...]
Alex Rodriguez Is Showing a Modest, Humble Side This »
Officially, Alex Rodriguez is more than one week into his return. Unofficially, we have learned nothing. Rodriguez returned to New York Yankees spring training camp—and Major League Baseball—last week after a yearlong suspension stemming from his involvement with Biogenesis. He has been in camp for about two weeks, but Yankees position [...]
Losing Yoan Moncada Might Not Stop Yankees’ »
This is not how things are supposed to go for the New York Yankees. When it comes to desiring a commodity and having a willingness to spend for it, the Yankees are not supposed to swing and miss. And while the occasional whiff has happened under the Steinbrenner family reign, missing out on the prize they covet, for a myriad of reasons, is [...]
Yankees’ Busy Day Better Be Only the Beginning »
The New York Yankees landed one of the better free agents in the pond Friday. The problem is he does not make them much better. According to the YES Network's Jack Curry, they caught reliever Andrew Miller with a four-year, $36 million contract to likely be their setup man in front of Dellin Betances, who will be a closer for the first time in his [...]
Red Sox, Blue Jays’ High-Octane Offseason Could »
The American League East is forcing the New York Yankees’ hand. The Boston Red Sox are making another play to go from worst to first in the division, signing two of the more coveted hitters on the free-agent market in Pablo Sandoval and Hanley Ramirez while trying to lure ace pitcher Jon Lester back to the city. The Toronto Blue Jays [...]
Yankees Must Treat Alex Rodriguez Like a Ghost as They »
Alex Rodriguez is a ghost. That is how the New York Yankees should treat his return from his season-long suspension after he was linked to performance-enhancing drugs in the Biogenesis scandal. The lower the expectations, the better the Yankees can prepare to compete in 2015. General manager Brian Cashman seems to understand this. He knows enough [...]
Alex Rodriguez’s Lies, PED Admissions Will Lead »
Suspicions: confirmed. The surprise is minimal—if present at all—that Alex Rodriguez admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs supplied to him by Biogenesis of America founder Anthony Bosch. According to a report by Jay Weaver of The Miami Herald that was published Wednesday morning and cited a Drug Enforcement [...]
Masahiro Tanaka’s Healthy Start Gives Yankees »
Working off the assumption that Sunday was an accurate indicator, Masahiro Tanaka is fine, and so is his future with the New York Yankees. Nearly two-and-a-half-months since he last took the ball in a major league game, the right-hander displayed virtually all the bells and whistles he brought from Japan and let loose in his first 18 starts as a [...]
Joe Girardi Should Not Be Casualty of Yankees’ »
When a man is tasked with driving someone else’s car across the country with four slow leaks in its tires, it is not that man’s fault when the car flattens halfway through the journey. Joe Girardi is in a similar situation. The New York Yankees are technically still breathing, and that alone shows the kind of job Girardi has done with [...]