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Mark Teixeira nears games in minors
Teixeira has been out since injuring his right wrist in early March while with the U.S. team preparing for the World Baseball Classic. The All-Star has been taking part in simulated games this week at the Yankees’ minor league complex. “Everything is great … I can’t be happier with how I feel,” Teixeira said Thursday. […]
Continue readingDerek Jeter takes BP in Tampa
Jeter took 21 swings on Wednesday at the Yankees’ minor league complex in Tampa, Fla. He looked comfortable at the plate, hitting balls to all fields. The Yankees captain has also increased his movement by taking grounders and fielding balls backhanded on the grass behind short and throwing to first. Jeter was examined last Thursday […]
Continue readingThe Damn Yankees strike again
The person measured the question, sighed, and then stated the obvious. “They’re the Yankees,” he said. “They’re always going to be the Yankees, and that’s never, ever going to change.” In other words, this is why there was a Broadway musical called “Damn Yankees” and not Damn Anyone Else, and certainly not Damn Mets (though, […]
Continue readingHal a winner? Time to get Tanaka
And if the Yanks don’t, their fans won’t. Hal has said he will only approve a payroll below the $189 million luxury-tax threshold — and the tens upon tens of millions in savings such a budget would bring — if he was confident it would still allow him to field a championship-level team. But as […]
Continue readingTime to start the legend of Troy?
Tulowitzki started directly addressing the speculation way back in spring training because the Yankees are going to have two vacancies — at shortstop, and as the face of the franchise — when Jeter retires after this season. Now, the best reason to still consider the possibility that Tulowitzki, the best all-around shortstop in the game, […]
Continue readingHanrahan deal shuffles two ‘pens
One of only three to rank among the top 15 relief pitchers on our Player Rater in each of the past two seasons (Craig Kimbrel and Jonathan Papelbon were the others), Hanrahan might have gained some in team support (and that’s debatable considering the Pirates actually won 10 more games than did the Red Sox […]
Continue readingWhen MLB fans take over the game
Still, in baseball there is sometimes a thin line between what is and isn’t acceptable, especially when balls in play fly toward the outfield fences or into foul territory. Or, say, when a major league team decides to rig up explosives and detonate them in center field. Wait — what? Here are just a few […]
Continue readingYankees shouldn’t bust bank for Cano
The 108-loss Houston Astros? In Minute Maid Park? To end the season and officially close out the closer, Rivera, right after he authored the perfect ending to a near-perfect career by collapsing into the arms of Andy Pettitte and collecting dirt from the Yankee Stadium mound? Hey, you play the schedule that the schedule-makers give […]
Continue readingNova, Sori, Ryan give Yankees hope
On one day it is Tampa. The next it is Texas. On Saturday, it was Cleveland, and by the middle of the week, who knows, it might turn out to be Kansas City. And even if the Yankees run the table over the final seven games of the season, it might turn out they are […]
Continue readingYanks can take lickin’, keep on tickin’
They are 5-4 since he returned to the roster after missing nearly three months with a broken right forearm suffered when he was hit by a pitch in the first at-bat of spring training. The point is not that the Yankees are a better team without Granderson than they are with him; that is certainly […]
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