The start of a new baseball season makes me feel like a kid on Christmas again. I am both excited and nervous just thinking of what the 2012 season could bring. Finally, it is the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays turn to open the season tomorrow at Tropicana Field. Two division rivals, that are both primed [...]
Archive of posts tagged Ivan Nova
New York Yankees: 2012 Pitching Rotation Is All Set
New York Yankees skipper Joe Girardi and pitching coach Larry Rothschild’s decision about the starting rotation got made for them last night. There were six pitchers for five spots, but with the now confirmed news that Michael Pineda does have shoulder tendentious, the heated competition will pause for a moment until Andy Pettitte decides he [...]
New York Yankees: Harping on another team’s prospect
New York Yankee fans should make a point to tune in, or DVR both today and Friday’s Spring Training games vs. the Washington Nationals. And not to watch the Yankees, but to check out Nationals prodigy prospect Bryce Harper. This 19-year old is supposedly so ridiculously good it might remind you of the good old days of [...]
New York Yankees: Who was hot
The plain and simple fact is that New York Yankees pitcher Ivan Nova was looking hot. And NO…. I did not mean in a sexual way, but on the mound as Nova was throwing heat last night in his second outing of the spring. Nova pitched four innings, allowing just two hits, no runs and [...]
New York Yankees: Not Enough To Trust Phil Hughes
Location was the word New York Yankees pitcher Phil Hughes used about a zillion times following his first good start this season. The Bombers beat-up on the Chicago White Sox for the second night in a row, but the 6-0 win only went lasted six innings due to rain. What almost superseded the game itself [...]
New York Yankees: Non-Trade Moves To Make
Following a 9-2 loss to the Seattle Mariners, which also helped them break a 17-game losing streak, you can bet the New York Yankees front office, is conceivably in a tizzy. This is not because the Bombers line-up fell flat at the hands of the 2010 CY Young winner King Felix, as many teams do. [...]
