The New York Post and ESPN.com reported that tomorrow the greatest closer to ever played the game, New York Yankees Mariano Rivera will officially announce that he is hanging up his glove at the end of this 2013 season. Joel Sherman of the NY Post learned that Rivera had had recently asked to speak privately [...]
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New York Yankees: 2013 season predictions
How do you predict the New York Yankees will fare in 2013? For years the Yankees were everybody’s perennial favorites to win the AL East, but now no one knows whether this team can even make the post season. No doubt the Yankees are old and injured, which does not breed confidence. No new super [...]
Yankees: Stats of the new Bronx Bombers
With Spring Training under way, I started looking at the stats of the players signed by the New York Yankees during the off-season more closely, and figured I would share them. The table does include Andy Pettitte, Hiroki Kuroda, Ichiro Suzuki and Mariano Rivera, who technically are not new to the Bombers, but were free [...]
New York Yankees: What is wrong with the farm system?
What is wrong with the New York Yankees farm system? I will get right to the point. As of today, the state of the Yankees farm system is actually irrelevant. And here is why. REASON ONE: Fact is it does not house the talent to immediate help the team in 2013. Too many of the [...]
Yankees: 4 top prospects to keep your eyes on
The future of the New York Yankees is up in the air. Unlike the past decade, or since the infamous Core Four, the Yankee brass wants to depend on the farm system to produce the team’s future stars. The last homegrown star to come up was Brett Gardner back in 2008. Here are four of [...]
2013 New York Yankees: 4 things you need to watch for
Baseball is back, as pitchers and catchers are officially reporting to their team’s respective Spring Training facility in either Arizona or Florida. The New York Yankees spring home is in Tampa, Florida and the normally anticipated media circus that comes with life in the pinstripes should be at an all time high. Why? There are [...]
