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New York Yankees: No Excuses As ALDS Dawns

We can get all worked up into a lather about how the ALDS is a crapshoot, but at the end of the day, sanity must prevail here. The Yankees have no business losing this series, regardless of opponent. New York has certainly struggled in this setting in recent years, having been bounced rudely from the first-round in '05, '06, and '07. But all the evidence points to a different result in 2009. Consider these irrefutable facts: a) The Yankees completed the regular season with a record of 103-59. Had they shared a division ...

Yankees Get Bats Rolling Before ALDS; Await Opponent

The New York Yankees pounded out 12 hits and exploded for 10 runs in the sixth inning of a 10-2 victory in the 2009 regular season finale at Tampa Bay on Sunday. All-Star third baseman Alex Rodriguez homered twice in the Bomber's breakout inning. His three-run blast and grand slam gave him an American League record seven RBI in one inning.Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, and Johnny Damon all recorded multi-hit games. Damon knocked in two runs on a sixth-inning double giving him 82 RBI on the year. That's his highest output since 2004, ...

2009 MLB Playoff Preview By WhatIfSports.com

With our computer on a roll after correctly picking North Carolina to win it all before the 2009 NCAA tournament, the 2009 Stanley Cup champion, the Lakers over the Magic in the 2009 NBA Finals, and the Pittsburgh Steelers to win Super Bowl XLIII (by four points), we at WhatIfSports.com focus on baseball. Just as we did with those previews, we have used our free MLB simulation technology to "play" the 2009 MLB Playoffs 10,000 times and determine the exact likelihood of each of the eight teams (really nine with the ...

Yanks Projected ALDS Roster

Yanks Projected ALDS RosterOct. 5, 2009While the Yankees will likely procrastinate and avoid making a formal announcement until the last minute, everyone is aware they will opt for the division series format with more days off. This will allow them to use their top three starters and send everyone else to the pen against either the Twins or Tigers.There really aren't a lot of tough decisions to make with this roster. We've heard whispers the Yankees are contemplating carrying three catchers or Freddy Guzman as another speedster off the bench. ...

The Road To 11: Will 2009 Be The Year For the Yankees?

The Yankees won 103 games in the 2009 regular season and are back in the playoffs after an absence from postseason baseball in 2008. The last time the Yankees were the number one seed in 2006, they were ousted by the Detroit Tigers in four games in the American League Division Series. The last time the Yankees were in the World Series was in 2003, where they were virtually exhausted and spent from fighting off the Red Sox in seven games and lost to the Florida Marlins in six games. And the ...

Game 163 and The MLB Playoff Preview

In a season where pennant races were few and far between, the Twins did catch the Tigers to create a one-game playoff for the American League Central Division Title. The winner gets to go to New York to face the best team in baseball. The New York Yankee infield of Mark Texeria, Robinson Cano, Derek Jeter, and Alex Rodriguez might be the best infield to ever play the game. The pitching staff, led by C.C. Sabathia, is going to be tough on any team in a short series. The biggest question mark for ...

How Brett Favre Is Helping the Yankees’ Drive For 27

Is Brett Favre a Yankee fan? Even if he isn't, a lot of Bombers supporters are certainly fans of No. 4 after his second unretirement and subsequent signing with the Minnesota Vikings set up a fateful Monday Night Football showdown with Favre's former team and Vikes' rival, the Green Bay Packers tonight at the Metrodome. The huge regular season matchup was too big for the NFL and ESPN to move. So the American League Central one-game tiebreaker between the Detroit Tigers and the Minnesota Twins—to be played at the same facility—is being ...

The Top 10 Moments of the Yankees’ 2009 regular season

Some of these will not be among your traditional choices. Feel free to add your own in the comments.10) Nick Swisher's surprise pitching appearanceThis won't be a traditional choice, since it's not something that anyone is necessarily proud of, but Swisher's relief appearance in April provided a brief moment of levity in a bad loss and also gave Yankee fans an idea as to how valuable Swisher could be for the Yankees—a trade that many were wary of in the first place. One season and 30, mostly ...

Why The Yankees Aren’t a Secure Pick to Win The American League

After closing out a fairly successful September, Joe Girardi and the Yankees look to maintain momentum into the playoffs.  Though the Bronx Bombers captured the league's best record with powerful second halves by Derek Jeter and Mark Teixeira, the unpredictable offensive support is not what haunts Yankee fans heading into the post season.   The starting rotation for the Yanks has been under heavy scrutiny, after sporadic starting efforts by Joba Chamberlain throughout the season. Leaving pitching coach Dave Eiland with one question to answer: who will be the third starter in the rotation?  Andy Pettitte, ...

New York Yankees Face Arbitration Decisions with Andy Pettitte and Johnny Damon

As I do every day, I was reading Buster Olney's daily column. In this particular column (sorry, behind the insider wall), he was discussing Type-A free agents and whether or not they would be offered arbitration. The Yankees had two players, Damon and Pettitte, on the list and I was interested to see what the executives Buster polled had to say about them. I was very surprised with their answers, to say the least. Here is what he had to say on Pettitte: Andy Pettitte, Yankees: He will earn about $10.5 ...
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