Back on April 4, 2012 ESPN New York’s Wallace Matthews wrote an article called Five big questions for the Bombers: The Yankees may be the AL East favorites, but they do have some issues to face. Now that the 2012 MLB season has reached the All-Star Break, which unofficially marks the middle of the season, I wanted to [...]
Archive of posts tagged Nick Swisher
New York Yankees: Sports Illustrated gives new meaning to overrated
If you haven’t heard yet, Sports Illustrated recently released a poll asking 228 MLB players: Who is the Most Overrated Position Player in Baseball? And the winners, listed in order were as follows: 1. Alex Rodriguez 2. Derek Jeter 3. Jayson Werth 4. Nick Swisher 5. Albert Pujols 6. Ichiro Suzuki 7. Hanley Ramirez 8. [...]
New York Yankees: Get Melk
I read a quote once that said: “It pays to plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” It is no big secret that the New York Yankees brass goal is to get the current $209+ million payroll down to $189 million in order avoid the hefty luxury tax increases that MLB will [...]
Yankees aren’t worried or winning
There is no way to sugarcoat this anymore because the New York Yankees absolutely stink. Going over all the issues isn’t going to help anything because they can’t hit, they give up homers and any team can beat them; and I mean any. All teams get a pass in the month of April, but it [...]
New York Yankees: Are you going to sink or swim?
SUNDAY SUMMARY: The New York Yankees wrapped up the four game series in Kansas City with a 10-4 win, splitting the series 2-2 with the Royals. Phil Hughes got the win, and he did pitch better but reality is the Yankee bats were really responsible for the win yesterday. As Ibanez and Granderson each had [...]
New York Yankees: Finally good news but more bad too
In retrospect the New York Yankees survived an injury-riddled week, ending on a high with a 2-1 series win against the Tigers. What happened? Well, which do you want to hear first? Kidding her is the bad news first, followed by the better or most improved news…. A WEEK FROM HELL: The New York Yankees [...]
New York Yankees fate hangs on Phil Hughes tonight
Hiroki Kuroda had a solid night on the mound, as he limited the Rangers to just two earned runs but unfortunately the Yankees bats got shut out by his opponent Yu Darvish. I called this outcome yesterday, as the Yankees line-up has a history of struggling when facing a pitcher for the first time but to his [...]
