For almost a decade if anyone heard Kevin Youkilis and New York Yankeesin the same sentence you can bet that it was not friendly banter. So a week ago, when Yankees beat writer Bryan Hoch confirmed the rumor of the Yankees making a $12-million, one-year offer to the ex-Red Sox, I honestly didn’t know what to [...]
Archive of entries posted in the year 2012
Yankees Hot Stove: Youks got to be kidding me
The New York Yankeesoff-season remains at a standstill, which isn’t so surprising when you have an ownership that refuses to offer anything more than a one-year contract. Why? – See good players, like solid bench guys can usually get two-year deals. – The young and most talented will easily get multi-year offers from many ball [...]
Yankees Hot Stove: Are you ok with Josh Hamilton needing a SWAT team
The latest hot stove rumor circulating is that the New York Yankees have inquired about slugging outfielder Josh Hamilton. USA Today Bob Nightengale reported the news via twitter but who knows if this was purely to generate attention as the source, an American League general manager, of course was anonymous. Nightengale clearly states that the [...]
Excuse me Hal what are you doing to the New York Yankees
The New York Yankeeshot stove has felt more like an icebox this off-season, and every one wants to know why. As this winter has been full of mix messages, causing a wave of emotions amongst Yankee fans with some sad, others angry and the rest remain in complete denial. While other MLB ball clubs are [...]
Yankees Hot Stove: Nate Schierholtz and Ichiro Suzuki
LATEST UPDATE: Nate Schierholtz officially signed with the Cubs - 11/6/12 – 12:45pm According to ESPN’s Buster Onley the New York Yankees are one of nine teams who have met with outfielder Nate Schierholtz’s agents at the Winter Meetings. Chris Cwik of CBS Sports later tweeted that the Yankees are the actually the front-runner’s for Schierholtz. Schierholtz became a [...]
Yankees Hot Stove: 9 tweets fans do not want to read
The New York Yankeesoff-season has been an unpleasant wake-up call of what is to come. As a fan to say that my heart is breaking would be an understatement, as the new Yankee reign still talks the talk but it is all smoke and mirrors. With the number of holes, aging and injured players and [...]
Yankees Hot Stove: Oh not Alex Rodriguez again
I knew it was too good to be true, as Alex Rodriguezcannot stay out of the headlines and this time the news has a trickling effect. The New York Post is reporting that, New York Yankees Alex Rodriguez is expected to have surgery on his hip and could miss the first half of the 2013 [...]
