New York Yankees: Holiday Thoughts

With the holiday season in full force, things like family, friends and “togetherness” (psh) are getting in the way of the important things – fantasy sports, kickball and analyzing the New York Yankees. Here are some thoughts and updates I want to discuss before I get summoned to spend some more “family time”. CC Sabathia [...]

Zack Greinke Traded

The computer keys are still warm from my last post regarding Zack Greinke’s trade request.  Not a day later, Zack Greinke is turning in his Royal blue & white for a pitcher of brew and a cheese brat. The Royals sent their ace and franchise’s face to the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for SS Alcides [...]

Zack Greinke Requests Trade

We already knew that Zack Greinke was on the block.  However, the rumors and speculation may be coming to an end sooner rather than later.  According to Jon Paul Morosi and Ken Rosenthal, Greinke has requested a trade.  Like I said, we already knew that there was a solid chance that the Royals traded Greinke [...]

New York Yankees Prospect Buzz

There is never a bad time to discuss prospects (unless you’re discussing a talented package of players being traded for Zack Greinke).  With the Justin Upton rumors, Zack Greinke hitting the block and the Cliff Lee non-signing, there has been a lot of discussion regarding who the Yankees should and should not trade.  Let’s shift [...]

New York Yankees Need to Make Lemonade

Before we start, let’s get caught up to speed on a couple of signings the New York Yankees made this afternoon: Russell Martin – I don’t like Martin very much.  I blame that on his .679 and .680 OPS marks the past two seasons.  I like the move though as long as JESUS MONTERO STAYS [...]

A Plan B for the New York Yankees

For the record, I’m in the camp of people who view Cliff Lee as Plan A, B, C, D, E and F.  I think the New York Yankees should do whatever it takes to get Lee.  If that means offering more money and/or more years than anybody else is willing to offer, so be it.  [...]

Red Sox Add Another Big Piece

The papers finalizing the Adrian Gonzalez trade are still warm, but that was just the start of Theo Epstein’s off-season plans.  Last night, Carl Crawford agreed to a 7-year/$142 million contract to play left field for the New York Yankees’ most hated rival.  The deal is the largest for an outfielder ever.  You can say [...]

New York Yankees Notes: Dec. 7 2010

Here are a couple of notes from the past few days… I’m going to start with Cliff Lee first.  There is buzz around the web that the Nationals are willing to offer a seven year contract to the 32 year old lefty.  You could argue the legitimacy of these rumors, but we already saw the [...]

Jayson Werth Signs With Nationals

Former Philadelphia Phillie, Jayson Werth, will take his long arms and potent bat down I-95 (I don’t know that for sure, but it sounded good in my head) to play for the Washington Nationals.  Werth signed a 7 yr/$126 million deal.  Besides the 126 million obvious reasons to sign that deal, I can’t really think [...]

New York Yankees Re-sign the Captain

Finally, the standoff between the New York Yankees and Derek Jeter has ended.  Nobody expected anything different.  The complete terms of the contract are pretty complicated so you can read a little more of the gritty details here.  The amount of money paid over the life of the deal varies on several factors, but he [...]

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