My preseason AL MVP pick: Grady Sizemore
AL MVP winner: Joe Mauer
Two nights before the 2008 All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, I had the opportunity to hang out with Joe Mauer, Justin Morneau, and Joe Nathan at an pre-All-Star Game party at a bar in New York City.
It was by far and away one of the coolest nights of life. How often does someone have drinks with an MVP? Little did I know I was hanging out with two MVP’s that night.
Today, Mauer followed in Morneau’s footsteps by winning the ...
Year Age Tm Lev ERA G GS IP H R ER HR BB SO HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB
2005
21
3 Teams
A-Rook-AA
4.15
14
13
73.2
77
40
34
8
27
36
1.0
3.3
4.4
1.33
2006
22
3 Teams
A-AA-A_adv
5.86
37
3
58.1
66
42
38
5
30
39
0.8
4.6
6.0
1.30
2007
23
Altoona
AA
2.81
40
0
57.2
43
24
18
8
17
52
1.2
2.7
8.1
3.06
2008
24
The 1952 World Series is usually remembered for Billy Martin's great catch of a Jackie Robinson pop fly with the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh inning of the seventh game.
The catch saved the Series for the Yankees, but the 1952 World Series was memorable in many other ways.
Joe Black Started and Finished Game 1 Rookie right hander Joe Black started Game1 at Ebbets Field against Yankees' ace Allie Reynolds.
Brooklyn beat Reynolds 4-2 on home runs by PeeWee Reese, Jackie Robinson, and Duke Snider. ...
How many times have you heard that the Yankees buy their players? How many times have you heard how the Yankees buy their championships?
You have probably heard a combination of both questions over the past decade. How valid are these questions? In fact, it is possible to buy players. Players have been bought since baseball first began. In the late 1910s, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee was trying to sell Babe Ruth to finance a Broadway play. Frazee had strong offers from both the White Sox and the Yankees. ...
Yesterday the Yankees added seven players to their 40-man roster, protecting them from the Rule 5 draft. They also removed Shelley Duncan from the roster and out righted him to Triple-A. I predicted that the Yankees would only add four or five players, so I am definitely a bit surprised they chose to add the following seven players:
Austin Jackson, OF
Jackson is one of the top prospects in the organization and was a surefire bet to be protected. His stock fell a bit this year even though he hit .300 in ...
On Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, the New York Yankees made a few tweaks to their 40-man roster. The Yankees added seven players to their roster in preparation for the upcoming Rule-Five draft. Reggie Corona, Kevin Russo, Eduardo Nunez, pitchers Romulo Sanchez, Ivan Nova, and Hector Noesi make up six of the seven players rescued from the draft.
Among those seven players is Yankees top prospect, Austin Jackson. Jackson could be the next big Yankees prospect since Derek Jeter, and could be making a splash in the major leagues as early as ...
Watching the New York Yankees win the World Series this year made me reflect on the past. My mind wandered to a decade ago and to a specific date, October 27, 1999. A date that represents my all-time greatest sports moment.
Now, I have been to plenty of playoff games in the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL. I have seen championship boxing matches and I've seen Tiger Woods play the Honda Classic. But nothing can compare to being in the stadium when your favorite team wins a championship. The atmosphere is ...
Daily News media critic Bob Raissman loves to call New York Sports Radio as the Valley of the Stupid. He use that moniker on them for the way the hosts and callers act stupid on the radio.
It's been years since this New Yorker listened to sports radio. He stopped listening in 2000 after he got tired of hearing ignorance from the fans and the talk-show hosts when it comes to sports in this city.
Surfing through the message boards the other day, the drive-time talkies on WFAN and WEPN talked about how they encouraged ...
At midnight, it begins.
Free agency basically ends everything from the 2009 season and begins the 2010 season.
For the 2009 World Series champion New York Yankees, it too begins their journey of defending their new championship that they worked hard to win.
Most people are probably wondering, where do the Yankees start in the offseason?
They have their own free agents to decide whether or not to bring back.
Most feel confident that Andy Pettitte will be brought back as long as he doesn't want to retire. In last year's offseason, Pettitte didn't sign ...
I still remember the first day I became a Mets fan.
It was spring of 1990 and there I was, five years old and ready to face the world of tee-ball. Where I lived in California, the teams were not green or orange, but actual baseball teams like the Yankees and the Dodgers.
As it turned out, I was destined to be on the Mets with my dad as coach. From then on, I was a Mets fan. There really are not a lot of memories from that age I can recollect, ...