With 2012 Spring Training games about to start, the question on New York Yankee fans is who are you most excited to see play this spring? My answer was easy, pitching prospect Manny Banuelos. It is no secret that Banuelos has been on my radar for some time now, as I first wrote about him back [...]
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New York Yankees: You Want Answers I Got 3 Questions
In a few days it will be February, which means Spring Training is right around the corner as pitchers and catchers report on the 19th. So, while baseball fans are ready to end another long off-season, team’s front offices are scrambling to get everything in order. As for the New York Yankees, this off-season got [...]
New York Yankees Hot Stove: Happy New Year You Cheapskates?
Cheapskates? Or Victims? At the start of the 2012 off-season the New York Yankees brass turned reformed savvy shoppers? The Yankee and cheapskates… it just sounded wrong. And guess what, it just might be. In actuality, MLB’s new collective bargaining agreement could be a bigger influence behind this thrifty transformation in the Bronx. See, the [...]
New York Yankees Hot Stove: Billy Beane Are You Kidding Me
Rumors about Oakland A’s pitcher Gio Gonzalez being on the market have swirled since the start of the off-season. Moneyball and A’s GM Billy Beane is asking for the riches of Solomon for Gonzalez, which is not surprising coming from Beane but reality is you are banking on potential talent. Gonzalez is 26-years old, and [...]
New York Yankees Trade Rumors: Opinions Wanted On Matt Garza
Chicago Cubs pitcher Matt Garza is the latest name floating around the Yankees Universe, as the Chicago Cubs are supposedly willing to hear trade offers for the right-hander according to Tom Loxas over at Cub Insider and confirmed via tweet from ESPN’s Buster Onley. Here are Garza’s numbers from 2010-2011 (all stats compliments of baseball-refernce.com): [...]
New York Yankees: Choosing Between Oswalt, Buehrle And Wilson
GM Brian Cashman was pretty clear about his goals for the 2012 off-season; the New York Yankees are looking to add “pitching, pitching, pitching.” Unfortunately for the Yankees this off-season’s free agent arms are not the greatest; and entirely incomparable to the available position players like Albert Pujols, Prince Fielder and Jose Reyes. There is [...]
New York Yankees: One Sox Down, Six Soxs To Go And A New Attitude
The New York Yankees won the first game in Chicago 3-2, as Ozzie and his White Sox just couldn’t muster much even against off a so-so CC Sabathia. An off night for Sabathia was still good enough to earn him his MLB leading 16th win, with just enough help from the Yankee bats to make [...]
