Coming into the 2011 season with a mediocre starting rotation, the New York Yankees alleviated worries by presenting a top-notch bullpen filled with dominance and reliability. Unfortunately, their key to victory has failed, as relievers Rafael Soriano, Pedro Feliciano and Joba Chamberlain are each suffering from season ending injuries, leaving the Yankees with a bullpen vacant of reliable aid. As their starting rotation has exceeded expectations, especially with surprises Bartolo Colonand Freddy Garcia pitching the Yankees to victory, the team has unfortunately hit another bump in the road. Due to a hamstring injury savior Bartolo Colon has joined starting pitcherPhil Hughes on the ...
It's no secret that out of all athletes, baseball players are the most superstitious. As an ex-player, I can attest to this. In the 14 years that I played, I never once spoke about a big game out of fear of jinxing it. Whenever I came to bat (this was primarily in high school), I took four practice swings: one for my brother, one for my sister and one for each of my parents.Yet, on the professional level, baseball players seem to take superstition ...
Originally drafted as an outfielder by the Arizona Diamondbacks in 1997, 32-year-old Brian Gordon is in line to make his Yankee debut on Thursday against the Texas Rangers.Matt Gelb of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Gordon opted out of his contract with the Phillies, signed with the Yankees and will start for them on Thursday.Gordon has spent time in the Diamondbacks, Houston Astros, Anaheim Angels. Texas Rangers and Philadelphia Phillies organizations. He briefly appeared in three games for the Rangers in 2008, allowing four hits and an earned run over ...
The Yankees have been victimized by injuries this season.Pedro Feliciano, Damaso Marte, Phil Hughes, Joba Chamberlain and Bartolo Colon have all spent time on the disabled list.On Tuesday, the Yankees lost another crucial starter to injury: a major one on the verge of history.According to Wallace Matthews of ESPN, Derek Jeter will now be placed on the 15-day disabled list.Jeter left Monday's game against the Cleveland Indians after he injured himself when he flied out in the bottom of the fifth inning.Jeter took himself out of the lineup and was ...
Game 27: June 14, 1941 New York. Home, sweet home. The Big Apple was alive on Saturday, June 14. Still four out in second place, the Yankees were nestled safely in the Bronx for a three-game series with front-running Cleveland. New Yorkers didn’t know what to talk about first: the pennant race, the fact that Bob Feller (13-2) would pitch the opener for the Indians, or The Streak, now at 26 straight. Feller was the league’s second-biggest draw, and with baseball’s biggest draw, ol’ No. 5, in the other dugout, ...
While the New York Yankees medical staff decides what the best course of action is in regards to Yankee captain Derek Jeter's injured calf, let me save them some time.Put Derek Jeter on the 15-Day disabled list, today.This works out well for the Yankees on a number of levels.Most importantly, it allows the 36-year-old Jeter two weeks to rest and fully recover. Whether he would admit it or not, a two-week break in the action is a good thing for Jeter's body.A bad idea would be to allow Jeter to ...
A closer's only job is to enter the game, normally in the ninth inning, get three outs and leave with his team winning the game and him getting a save. The best closers in history do this more often than not.
However, every closer has a game where he just can't seem to get outs and the score ends up being tied or even worse, what seemed like a win became a loss. This results in the blown save.
A blown save is never a good thing. It may end up costing the team the win. ...
Derek Jeter’s pursuit of 3,000 career hits may have to wait. The New York Yankees shortstop left Monday night’s game against the Cleveland Indians in the fifth inning with a calf injury. An MRI after the game revealed that Jeter had a Grade I calf strain. It is unknown how much time Jeter will miss, but manager Joe Girardi said it is unlikely he will return for Tuesday night’s game versus the Texas Rangers. Jeter led off the bottom of the first inning and advanced to third base but did not ...
This past offseason, there was a clear prize of the pitching market, as the former Cy Young Award-winning left-hander, Cliff Lee, became a free agent. There were multiple teams that were interested, with the Rangers, Nationals and Yankees identified as the front-runners to obtain his services. The Yankees offered him a seven-year contract worth $148 million, but in the end Lee chose to return to the team he played for during the second half of the 2009 season, the Philadelphia Phillies. He accepted an offer of a lesser amount (five years, $120 million) ...
The Yankees starting rotation took a major hit this weekend when Bartolo Colon was placed on the disabled list.Colon joins Phil Hughes as starters who are both on the disabled list for the Yankees.Colon left Saturday's game against the Cleveland Indians with a strained hamstring when he was going to cover first base in the top of the seventh inning.He also joins pitchers Damaso Marte, Pedro Feliciano, Joba Chamberlain and Rafael Soriano who are also out for the Yankees and on the disabled list. It's possible that Hector Noesi could take ...