New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman took the words “Pitching is a priority,” right out of ex-Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicks mouth this off-season. Cashman has left skipper Joe Girardi and Co. with a tough decision to make come Spring Training, as seven starting pitchers cannot fit into five spots. The situation is as follows, [...]
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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 Trade Rumors: Rangers Got Yu But Could Use Hughes Too
Ok so the Texas Rangers finally got their man, as Japanese pitching phenom Yu Darvish signed a 6-year, $60 million deal to play in Arlington. Add in the $52 million posting fee the Rangers paid to talk to Darvish for a month, (= $1.7 million per day) and that makes a grand total of roughly [...]
New York Yankees: Robertson + Joba = Hughes
No wonder everyone wants to be a New York Yankee, as who wouldn’t want a boss that hands out half-million dollar raises based on poor performance due to laziness? You can be sure Phil Hughes isn’t complaining. Last season, Hughes showed up to Spring Training out of shape, and sat on the DL with shoulder [...]
New York Yankees Hot Stove: Hughes Problem Gets A Raise
All I thought was, what the heck were the New York Yankees thinking when ESPN New York reported that Phil Hughesgot a one-year deal, for $3.2 million, plus another quarter million in incentives just to avoid going to salary arbitration with him? I mean honestly, how much more money could an arbitrator really give Hughes? In Hughes’ first three starts in [...]
New York Yankees: 2012 Resolution That’s Easy
Making a New Year’s resolution is a time-honored tradition, and after going to the gym today I can tell you that it is still done, as it was jammed packed. Certain resolutions are irresolvable; such as I will never win a World Series for the obvious reason that I am female. Regardless, the majority of [...]
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 [...]
