Finally, Yankee Universe gets confirmation that team owner Hal Steinbrenner is alive. Hal discussed the current state of the Yankees with New York Post’s Ken Davidoff down in Arizona at the annual MLB owners meetings last week. Everyone under the sun knows that Hal is a “numbers” guy and has made it clear that he [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Hiroki Kuroda category.
Yankees Hot Stove: Kudos on Kuroda signing
Phew…was my reaction when I read the news via ESPN’s Buster Olney that the New York Yankees had re-signed starting pitcher Hiroki Kuroda to a one-year, $15 million deal for 2013. Kuroda was the Yankees best pitcher in 2012, posting a 16-11 record, with a 3.32 ERA over a career high of 219.2 innings pitched. In 33 [...]
Yankees Hot Stove: My Hal Steinbrenner conspiracy theory
The latest rumor swirling around Yankee Universe is not a potential signing of a big name free agent to fill one of the team’s numerous holes. It has been reported by the New York Times that media giant News Corp is close to a deal to own a minority share of the YES Network. The [...]
Yankees Hot Stove: RA Dickey
New York Yankees Brian Cashman is one of 30 GMs in Indian Wells, Californiaat the annual GM meetings, where the biggest news happens in hotel suites as it is considered baseball’s annual trade fair. GMs offer up players they are willing to listen to offers on, as trades and free-agent signings are typical with usually [...]
Pretend you are Yankees GM Brian Cashman who would you keep
Can you pretend you are Yankees GM Brian Cashmanfor a second? Ok not literally, but say you had his job and you were just named the new GM for the New York Yankees. And your first order of business is deciding is deciding who gets to live another day in pinstripes, and who will get [...]
First order of Yankees off-season: Who to keep and who to toss
The New York Yankees are now focused on the 2013 season, and GM Brian Cashman has a ton of work to do this off-season. Like every other GM, Cashman’s goal is to put a World Series caliber team on the field but the pressure he is under is much greater, as this franchise and its [...]
Yankees Ichiro and Kuroda bring Japanese pride to the Bronx
Usually admitting when you are wrong can sometimes be a good thing, and I was wrong about Ichiro Suzuki. When the Yankees announced that they had traded for the Mariners biggest star outfielder, I did not think that it was a great idea. I had figured that helping the lull in ticket sales at Yankee [...]
