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How New York Yankees Starters Have Fared vs. Baltimore »
The New York Yankees have won the American League East title for the 13th time in the last 17 years. That became official on Wednesday, the final night of the season, when the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Baltimore Orioles 4-1 in St. Petersburg, FL. The Yankees will be the No. 1 seed in the American League playoffs after beating the Boston Red Sox [...]
Can New York Yankees Survive October with 3 Starters? »
Three years ago, the New York Yankees won the World Series by going through the entire postseason with a three-man starting rotation of CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and Andy Pettitte. Each made five starts as the Yankees went swept the Minnesota Twins in the Division Series, beat the Los Angeles Angels in six games in the American League Championship [...]
Russell Martin Having a September to Remember for New »
The first five months of the 2012 season couldn’t have been much worse offensively for New York Yankees catcher Russell Martin. When he woke up on Sept. 1, he was hitting a woeful .198 (66-for-333) with 14 home runs and 36 RBI. His triple-slash line was .198/.301/.366. Martin was never going to be confused with Mike Piazza when it came to [...]
11 Predictions for the New York Yankees’ »
I often take predictions with a grain of salt, particularly when it comes to predicting what will happen in the short-series, little-room-for-error crunch of October in Major League Baseball, where a team is even more defined by how good its starting pitcher is on a given day.Still, it can be a lot of fun to make predictions. So after giving this [...]
Ichiro Suzuki, Raul Ibanez Turning Back the Clock for »
Once upon a time, Ichiro Suzuki was a run-scoring, hit-producing machine at the top of the order for the Seattle Mariners. Ichiro scored at least 100 runs in his first eight seasons in the major leagues after coming to the Mariners from the Japanese League in 2001 and recorded at least 200 hits a season for 10 straight years (2001-10). At one [...]
MLB Pennant Race 2012: Easy Schedule for New York »
The New York Yankees had their seven-game winning streak snapped on Sunday when the Oakland Athletics salvaged the final game of their three-game set at Yankee Stadium with a 5-4 win. The loss did not hurt the New York in the American League East standings, though, because the Baltimore Orioles had their six-game win streak broken with a 2-1 loss [...]
5 Reasons Being a Wild Card Would Be Better for the »
For much of the season, pundits have been discussing how much added value comes with winning a division title in 2012 with the addition of a second wild-card playoff team in each league. So the conventional wisdom goes, winning the division means more than it has since the wild card entered the baseball lexicon for the 1995 postseason. It was [...]
Ichiro, New York Yankees Have an Almost Perfect »
But for more extra-innings magic by the Baltimore Orioles late Wednesday night in Seattle, this time in the form of Adam Jones’ two-run homer in the top of the 11th inning that gave Baltimore a 3-1 win over the Mariners, Wednesday was almost a perfect day for the New York Yankees. Ichiro Suzuki went 7-for-8 in the Yankees’ doubleheader [...]
Are the New York Yankees Asking Too Much of Andy »
NOTE: Updated to reflect Tuesday night postponement.At age 40, lefthander Andy Pettitte surely never thought he’d be looked to as the guy to save the New York Yankees’ 2012 season. After all, we’re talking about a guy who didn’t pitch at all in 2011, a guy who retired and thought he’d had enough. But Pettitte came [...]
Joe Girardi in Trouble as Manager of New York Yankees? »
FOXSports.com’s Ken Rosenthal listed the managers who might be in trouble come the end of the season in a column posted this morning. Among the managers on his list were Jim Leyland of the Detroit Tigers (in the last year of his contract), Mike Scioscia of the Los Angeles Angels, embattled Bobby Valentine of the Boston Red Sox, [...]