Shelley Duncan has seen brief success when he has played for The New York Yankees from 2007 to 2009. It is a completely different story when he gets full time play with the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, the Triple-A affiliate of the 27 time World Champs.
Duncan lead the International League in home runs (30) RBI (99), runs and extra base hits, thus being honored by the Topps Company of New York, as their Player of the Year.
Another Yankees farmhand, Austin Romine, who was named the Florida State League Player of the Year, finished ...
The New York Yankees are the best team in baseball—for the 2009 season (as we predicted in our World Series Preview ). But is this one of the best teams in baseball history? Is it even one of the best teams in Yankees history? What about this decade?
This is where WhatIfSports steps in with the answers. As the 2009 MLB season comes to its end, we set out to rank all 27 previous Yankees World Series winners, as well as to order the 10 champions of the 2000s. To do ...
As a Yankee fan, I'm used to people hating on the Yankees.
I get it.
People hate winners and want to blame winners for their own team's misery.
I know a guy on Facebook that I have thought about deleting because every time I bring up the Yanks, he gripes about how MLB is broken.
Whining is whining. It's annoying when a three-year-old does it because he perceives something isn't fair and it's annoying when a grown man does it about baseball.
This happens all the time. When a team loses a game, if you ...
"Money can't by me love" sang The Beatles in the '60s.
Nor can it buy an MLB team a World Series championship.
The dusty vestige of an argument locked in the attic for the past nine years was dragged out of the darkness yesterday morning, hours after Mariano Rivera closed out the 2009 Fall Classic. The argument actually comes in a few different flavors, but essentially all of them are presented like this:
"Of course the Yankees won. They spend more money than any other team by far. They bought the Championship ."
Take ...
Finally! The waiting is over! After nine long years without a title, the Yankees are champs once again. Nobody suffers like the Yankee faithful. Think of the toll all those championship-less years have taken on an eight-year-old Yankee fan who’s never seen his favorite team win.
After overcoming the curse of Danny Cater by winning it all in ’77 and the curse of hiring a manager named stump with the team’s ’96 Series win, the Bombers have now wiped out the curse of giving us the image of Jason Giambi ...
As everyone knows, the 2009 New York Yankees have won the World Series. Now that they finally have 27 World Titles, here are 27 things I have learned and will remember and take with me from this past season.
27— It was cool to call Nick Swisher “Nick at Nite” when he hit a home run during a night game. Just one of the many nicknames I have come up with for the Bombers this year. Yeah, I know. It’s corny
26— The Yankees know how to open a new Stadium. They ...
The New York Yankees have been called many things. Although most of these nick-names are caused by jealousy or envy, (of their record amount of Championships, or perhaps of them playing in the greatest city in the world), there is one fact that all these Yankee-haters always seem to state to justify their opinion: they have the most money to spend, and in an uncapped sport, they have a significant advantage.
Although it is undeniably true that the Yankees have the most money to spend on free agents, there is a ...
As you can already guess from the title of this article, I am a fan of the New York Yankees. And because I am a fan of the Bronx Bombers, I am inclined to ask any non-Yankee fans this question:
"And how was YOUR Wednesday night?"
Mine was AWESOME and thank you for asking!
So many Yankee fans are writing about how elated they are that their team clinched their 27th World Title. I have decided to write directly to Yankee fans. This is for you.
Now that we've won, now is the time ...
We’ve seen what they have done in the Little League World Series. We’ve seen what they’ve done in the Olympics and World Baseball Classic. Relatively recently, we’ve been able to see what they can do in a full 162-game season, traveling day after day across a country substantially bigger than their own.
Finally, we’ve seen what one of “them” can truly do in the World Series…under the brightest lights…for the brightest team. Though there was a lot of pressure, Godzilla did well. Really well.
Hideki Matsui, as this World Series’ Most Valuable ...
This observer witnessed something in New York City the last couple of days.
On Tuesday night, New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg bought himself another term by defeating New York City comptroller William Thompson in an mayoral election that the Democratic candidate had no chance of winning.
Last night, the Yankees bought themselves their 27th championship by eliminating the Phillies in six games in what was a boring World Series.
What can we learn from this? If anyone has the money, he or she can do whatever he or she wants, and odds ...