What happened to re-signing six-time Gold Glove winner Eric Chavez? Somewhere between the Pineda-Montero trade, Kuroda signing and the never-ending fifth starter debate, Chavez’s status got pushed aside. Also, baseball in general has taken a back seat to Super Bowl XLVI but especially in New York with the football Giants playing in it. Chavez had [...]
Since my mind has been on the New York Giants and Super Bowl XLVI, I neglected to comment on New York Post Joel Sherman’s tweet from this past Sunday, about the Yankees signing reliever Manny Delcarmen to a minor league deal. Truthfully, I didn’t realize Delcarmen still pitched because I hadn’t heard his name since [...]
Along with the four-player trade that sent top prospect Jesus Montero packing for Seattle and pitcher Michael Pinedain pinstripes, ESPN’s Buster Onley also verified that the New York Yankees made a deal with ex-Dodger Hiroki Kuroda over this past weekend. According to an Onley tweet, the 36-year-old agreed to a one-year, at $10 million deal [...]
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 [...]
Are the New York Yankees are officially cheapskates? Not quiet, but when Japan’s Mainichi Daily News publicized that pitcher Yu Darvish had the highest bid for a Japanese player under the posting system, a reported $51.7 million and that the team was the Texas Rangers, I was totally relieved. The Yankees do not need another [...]
The 2011 Winter Meetings are officially underway down in Dallas, Texas and New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman has yet to make any noise. The Yankees have not been shy about being quiet, and look to stay that way because the team is already pretty good. Not that the Yankees are devoid of need, but [...]
If you had not heard yet, ex-New York Mets skipper, turned ESPN analyst Booby Valentine has been named the new GM of the Boston Red Sox. Valentine will have his hands full in Beantown, as he will have to crackdown on the Red Sox players who preferred hosting keg parties and eating fired chicken to [...]
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