Via Chad Jennings at LoHud and RAB, the Yankees have signed outfielder Randy Winn to a one year deal worth about $2 million. Winn had a career down year last year, sporting a career low 75 OPS+ and a career low .318 on base percentage. However, this year and his down year in 2006 seems [...]
According to a report via ESPN, “a baseball source told ESPN.com’s Jerry Crasnick” that “[Scott] Boras and [Johnny] Damon are trying to engage the Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds as possible alternatives” to the Yankees. Though the Tigers-Damon connection is not new – Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated offered the possible marriage a few weeks [...]
Was having a baseball discussion last night and we were talking about some of the dumber, embarassing, silly comments made during a player’s admission to PED use. My buddy gave me a few and I’ve added to that list below, expanding the list to include other people in the game of baseball, not just offending players. See if you can match the comment with the offending party:
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The common line is that right now, the Yankees have about 2 million dollars left in their budget for the 2010 season. I think that this is entirely plausible. Hal Steinnerbrenner gave Brian Cashman a hard number, and said that he would have to approve any spending over that number. He did so last year [...]
Another day, another non-story about Johnny Damon. While I’ve been very pleased with Yankeeist’s output (big ups to Mike and Jason), it’s been a bit of a challenge to come up with content given that the Yankees haven’t done anything for over a month since trading for Vazquez, and this late-January lull is starting to [...]
[image title="20090603-rdogs" size="full" id="14456" align="center" linkto="full" ] AOL Fanhouse writer Frankie Piliere recently ranked baseball’s farm systems, and the Yankees came in at 15: 15. New York Yankees | Players in Top 100: 4 The Yankees have plenty of depth. What they don’t have right now is a great deal of impact talent behind Jesus [...]
Over the weekend Alex Rodriguez received the Babe Ruth Award for his dominant postseason. Alex hasn’t received much attention for winning an award meant to celebrate the best player in the playoffs, but he should have, and not for the reason many fans might think. A list of players with legitimate Hall-of-Fame resumes whose association [...]
[image title="1stbirthdaycake" size="full" id="14430" align="center" linkto="full" ] One year ago today, The Yankee Universe opened its doors (we actually had a soft opening on the 24th, but the official start was the 26th), with the goal of becoming the best Yankees blog on the internet. One year and one cease-and-desist letter later, TYU is still [...]
Time to start looking elsewhere as it’s not only the Yanks who are boosting payrolls with silly contracts:
@SI_JonHeyman sheets got $10 million plus performance bonuses. not bad after idle ’09
Hey, I love the idea of smaller market teams adding payroll and top players, but $10 million PLUS performance bonuses for a guy who hasn’t pitched in MLB in over a year is absurd.
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