With the news coming in from all over that Nick Johnson will need wrist surgery and will be out until at least July, the Yankees have found themselves without an everyday designated hitter.
Johnson, who was batting an abysmal .167 to begin with, now needs a replacement in the lineup.
Since his departure, the Yankees have been shuffling a bunch of players around and giving their opponents different looks on almost a gamely basis.
The Yankees may not need to go out and get a DH, if they are able to win with ...
The Yankees are fresh off of a successful 2009 campaign and are looking to defend their title this season. While they have kept the core of the team intact, many changes have been made to their roster. They have lost the World Series MVP Hideki Matsui and a valuable outfielder in Johnny Damon. They traded away starting center fielder Melky Cabrera and pieces of their bullpen to acquire Curtis Granderson and Javier Vazquez. They have signed two new outfielders (Randy Winn and Marcus Thames) and a designated hitter (Nick Johnson). ...
Thursday's matchup is definitely a good one featuring Andy Pettitte and James Shields.
Another hard winner to pick because Pettitte has been so good and Shields has greatly improved since the last time he faced this Yankees lineup.
JAMES SHIELDS (TBR) vs. ANDY PETTITTE (NYY)
JAMES SHIELDS
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James Shields has some experience against the Yankees, so he knows what to expect. As 2010 moves along, so does Shields, who has pitched for eight innings in two of his last three starts. He throws a lot of strikes with a fastball that averages at 92 mph. He ...
The big story of the start of the baseball season would be the great starts by Tampa Bay, San Diego, Cincinnati and Washington.
The other big stories are off the field tales of Hall of Fame players napping and teens getting tasered.
The big debate is about parity. As of right now, there are fifteen teams that are .500 or better. That is great news for those who argue that parity does exist.
I hope that the Tampa Bay Rays cool off and are not in contention for the World Series. MLB ...
The Celtics eliminated the Cavaliers in six games last week. Now, everyone speculates where LeBron James is going to play.
Basketball junkies encourage James to leave Cleveland for a chance to win a championship. Clevelanders warn their hometown star not to leave or else be vilified the way Art Modell was for moving the Browns to Baltimore.
If James leaves, Modell will be elated to know he will have a company for the most despised sports figure in Cleveland.
This begs one question to be asked.
How come CC Sabathia escapes the scorn he ...
With an "A-Bomb" grand slam from A-Rod on Friday night, the great Mariano Rivera giving up a grand slam himself on Sunday, and Marcus Thames sinking Papelbon and the Sox on Monday, it has been a week of highs and lows for the Yanks thus far.
But through it all, the Yankees are starting to see some major production out of their once struggling sluggers.
Mark Teixeira, also known as Mr. May, has been on fire this month. He has five homers to go with 21 RBI and his average now stands at .224--at the ...
After last night's thrilling comeback victory by the New York Yankees (25-13), CC Sabathia (4-2, 3.71 ERA) looks to finish off the Boston Red Sox (19-20) for the time being.
Going into Tuesday night, the Red Sox are already eight-and-a-half games out of first place in the American League East.
However, the Yankees aren't actually the leader of the East at the moment. The red hot Tampa Bay Rays (27-11) are two games ahead of the Bronx Bombers.
Still, with a victory tonight, the Yankees would move to 6-2 on the season against ...
New York Yankees pitcher Phil Hughes has dominated thus far into the 2010 season. Starting with a 5-0 record (best on the squad) and a 2.25 ERA on the year—Hughes has been lighting it up in the fifth spot for the red-hot Yanks.
Despite struggling against the Boston Red Sox, Hughes still managed not to lose the game and finished with a no decision. He pitched four innings and allowed five earned runs with three strike outs. The Yankees came away with the victory, though, with outfielder Marcus Thames hitting a ...
Since the Curtis Granderson injury, Brett Gardner has stopped being platooned with Marcus Thames in left field. Gardner is now the starting center fielder and is making the most out of his opportunity.
Not that the opportunity wasn't warranted in the first place. I have repeatedly said that Gardner should have been the starting center fielder, even last season when he struggled early on. I wrote this piece last season on why Brett the Jet should have been the starter . It is that the Yankees (and their fans) ...
Chan Ho Park's legacy in the Bronx can essentially be boiled down to two components:
1) The opening night gastrointestinal issues that made him a YouTube sensation .
2) His propensity for allowing home runs to the Boston Red Sox.
In other words, Park may struggle to fill pages in his upcoming memoir, "Longballs and Loose Bowels: Stuff I Did With The Yankees Before Being Unceremoniously Designated For Assignment," scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster in June.
Park's meltdown very well could have been the story of Monday's series-opener against the ...
