As Alex Rodriguez closes in on becoming just the seventh player all-time to hit 600 home runs (and the youngest ever to do so), there is not as much attention to this potentially huge milestone as there would usually be. And the reason? A-Rod’s association with performance enhancing drugs.
With this milestone looming, it seams like an appropriate time to revisit an old debate; do players who have been associated with steroids and HGH deserve to be inducted into the Hall of Fame?
Based on the information we have available at this point, yes ...
Wednesday night, the New York Yankees continued their series in Cleveland against the Indians. Just one day after being shut down by Indians pitcher Josh Tomlin in his major league debut.
In the top of the first, Alex Rodriguez drove a single to center to score Mark Teixeira, getting the scoring started. Rodriguez is still chasing after the 600th home run of his career, which seems to be elusive for the Yankees third baseman. One night after weakly bouncing out to short to end the game as the tying runner, Rodriguez ...
It's become a rite of summer. If a major league team has an available player at the trade deadline, he'll be connected to the Yankees somehow, whether he makes sense for New York or not.
So it comes as no surprise that the Yankees have been connected to just about every available player at this year's trade deadline. They've made known offers for Cliff Lee and Dan Haren and have made inquiries about several other players they view as upgrades.
One player that hasn't been overwhelmingly rumored to be a Yankee target ...
It seems like every time you put on ESPN or browse any sports site, you at least hear or see something about Alex Rodriguez and his pursuit of his 600th home run.
I understand hitting 600 home runs is a huge milestone, but it would have a lot more credibility if the man who was pursuing it wasn't already a confessed steroid user, and therefore a cheater in my book.
A-Rod confessed to using a banned substance from 2001-2003. During those years, he hit a combined 156 home runs. To me, those ...
With the MLB trading deadline three days away, teams are evaluating their rosters and trying to figure out what pieces they need for the second half of the season.
For the New York Yankees, their attention so far has been on getting more pitching.
Earlier this month, they were on the verge of landing Cliff Lee from the Seattle Mariners, but Seattle backed out at the last second, and then sent Lee to the Texas Rangers.
Last week, the Yankees were believed to be the front runners to land Dan Haren from the ...
It was one of the worst trades the New York Yankees under George Steinbrenner ever made. On April 30, 1989, the Yankees sent 23-year-old left-hander Al Leiter to the Toronto Blue Jays for 30-year-old slugging outfielder Jesse Barfield. A major reason given was that the Yankees were upset with the chronic blister problems Leiter suffered on the fingers of his pitching hand.At first, it seemed that Mr. Steinbrenner had gotten the better of the trade. Barfield hit 18 home runs for the ...
According to George King of the NY Post , the Yankees have had interest in Orioles infielder Ty Wigginton , but so far the O’s are unwilling to deal him within the division. One player they may be willing to part with is Miguel Tejada , but so far the Yankees reaction has been “lukewarm at best.”
There is a good reason why the Yankees don’t want Tejada, he sucks.
He’s not nearly the player he used to be and his age, believed to be 36, is unreliable. For all we know, ...
I don’t know what they’re smoking up in Canada, but according to George King of the NY Post , the Toronto Blue Jays have asked the Yankees for Joba Chamberlain or, according to Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated, their top prospect, Jesus Montero, in exchange for reliever Scott Downs .
That’s right: The asking price for the Jays' middle reliever is the Yankees' top prospect. There is still time for the demands on Downs to come back down to Earth, but if they stay anywhere close to this, then a ...
According to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports , the Chris Coghlan injury effects the Yankees in more ways than just answering a few questions about pies (he was injured in a walk-off pie throwing celebration), it takes away one of their trade options at the deadline – OF Cody Ross .
Now this doesn’t necessarily kill a deal between the Yankees and Marlins for Ross, a right handed hitting outfielder who would be the perfect platoon for Curtis Granderson .
It does make things much more complicated.
The asking price for Ross was ...
Josh Tomlin, an Indians pitcher making his Major League debut, held the Yankees hitless through the first three innings, faced the minimum through six, and beat the Yankees 4-1, all while holding Alex Rodriguez at 599 home runs.
Here are some notes:
The Yankees have now dropped their last six games against a pitcher making his Major League debut.
Mark Teixeira was kept off the bases for the first time last night since June 6, a game where he struck out five times against the Blue Jays.
Teixeira’s line during that time: 42 ...
