Starting tonight the Yankees get three more games at home against another light-hitting American League counterpart, only this time instead of the second-worst offensive attack in the AL they get to face the team not only featuring the most execrable offense in the Major Leagues in the form of the Seattle Mariners, but currently in [...]
After dropping a close contest on Saturday, the Yankees took a big lead over Oakland on Sunday. The bullpen struggled a bit in the late innings, but the Yankees held on for a 7-5 victory over the Athletics, despite some hot hitting by former Bomber Hideki Matsui.
Bartolo Colon looked sharp in the first inning, and got two quick outs in the second before getting in some trouble. Kurt Suzuki doubled to left and Cliff Pennington hit a soft fly ball to right, which dropped in front of Nick Swisher. Swisher tried to get Suzuki at the plate, but it took a short hop and the Athletics had the first run of the game while Pennington moved to second. Eric Sogard doubled to center and Oakland took a 2-0 lead.
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Triple-A Scranton beat Syracuse, 7-2
After giving up an early run in the first inning, Scranton scored three in the bottom of the second and added on two more by the end of the fifth, and never looked back. The big hit was a third inning home run by Gustavo Molina, and Jesus Montero had two doubles. Scranton pitchers did a good job overall; Andrew Brackman walked five in four innings, but only gave up one run. Josh Schmidt got the win with two innings of one-hit relief with two strikeouts, and Eric Wordekemper struck out two in a scoreless inning. Rafael Soriano gave up a home run. On kind of a weird note, the opposing pitcher the Scranton Yankees hit hard was Chien-Ming Wang, making his final minors rehab appearance.
So I check in to the MLB trade rumors week in review, and you know what they have on the Yanks? Squat. Oh sure, they signed Marcus Thames to a minor league deal, and made a phone call to the Tampa Bay Rays that lasted about a minute. Other than that? Nothing. And that’s just [...]
Weather reports have today cooling off to a balmy 90 degrees this afternoon, but with high humidity and the threat of thunderstorms it will feel pretty similar to the past few days here in the NY metro area. That sounds like baseball weather to me, so head out to the ballpark or curl up in [...]
Today is induction day at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. That means hordes of fans will be flooding the little village to see Bert Blyleven, Roberto Alomar, and Pat Gillick get inducted, take in the general festivities of the weekend, and pay $5 to have Pete Rose sign whatever they have handy to get a signature on. Like many others, induction day always kind of sneaks up on me and I never realize it’s coming until a few days beforehand. Unlike others, I’m pretty sure I know why that is; I just don’t really like the whole charade.
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One trade name that has popped in recent weeks is that of Matt Garza. We know for a fact that Yanks were scouting him recently, but have heard mostly negative reports on his availability. The Cubs just gave up 3 of their top 4 prospects to acquire him, and with one more year of team [...]
A. J. Burnett’s underwhelming performance against one of the American League’s worst offenses raises yet more concern over the Yanks rotation. Burnett is now 2-5 with a 4.69 ERA and 1.47 WHIP in his last nine outings. In five of them, he has failed to complete the sixth inning. With concerns about the health and durability of Phil Hughes and Bartolo Colon still unanswered, the desire to add a starting pitcher seems greater than ever.
In recent weeks we have discussed the availability and desirability of Ubaldo Jimenez, Matt Garza, Carlos Zambrano, Wandy Rodriguez, and Scott Kazmir, among others. If one gives credence to the grapevine, it would not appear that all are off the table, either because the asking price was too high or the recent track record too mediocre. Which brings us to Edwin Jackson.
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