New York Yankees

By Sean P Austin Jackson-OF So naturally this will start plenty of speculation about the Yankees plans. Do they only plan on signing only one of Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui and Andy Pettitte? Or are they planning on some free agent prize? Brian Bruney-RHP

By Chad Jennings Hoping some of that championship glow will rub off, the Knicks are going to honor Yankees manager Joe Girardi for being a generally good guy in the hours after the World Series win. Here’s the press release. Yankees’ Manager Wins “City Spirit” Award For Heroic Efforts After World Series Win

The Yankees manager was named as the winner of the Knicks' Sweetwater Clifton "City Spirit" Award for the month of November. The award, named in honor of Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, the first African-American to play for the Knicks, recognizes individuals who have made a significant diff...

By Chad Jennings Colin Curtis, one of the Yankees who would have to be added to the 40-man to be protected from the Rule 5 draft, finished with a .397 average. He had seven doubles, two triples and five home runs in 20 games. Even in a hitters’ league like the Fall League, those are eye-popping numbers. The outfiel...

Starting today, Hideki Matsui and Johnny Damon are true free agents - able to field offers from any club, but really waiting to see how much the Yankees want them back. And...

By Associated Press The Yankees' Andy Pettitte and the Mets' Fernando Tatis have become the final players to file for free agency this year.

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By Vince Mercandetti After last year’s shopping spree of arguably the top three players on the open market, mixed with the contracts recently handed out to Mariano Rivera, Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada (gross overpayment for past production in Posada’s case, an insane number to A-Rod after Texas set his o...

By Doug Rush For the 2009 World Series champion New York Yankees, it too begins their journey of defending their new championship that they worked hard to win. The other two free agents the Yankees have to make a decision on are Johnny Damon and Hideki Matsui.

By Joe Gerrity My love of the Mets stayed true until one day when the Mets started trying to emulate the Yankees. They started to embody the very values that I so very much detested. Tampa Bay? Sign me up for the bandwagon. 1. Yankees. 3. Mets. (Because they broke my heart.)

By By GEORGE A. KING III The valued opinions have been voiced from the scouting arm of the world champion Yankees universe. Nevertheless, that doesn’t mean at 12:01 tomorrow morning general manager Brian Cashman will be dialing free agents with a fistful of the Steinbrenner...

By By EMILY SMITH and DAVID K. LI It's good to be Derek Jeter. The star of the world champ Yankees has been spending his post-postseason down time frolicking on the beach with his squeeze, "Friday Night Lights" babe Minka Kelly. The shortstop and his gorgeous gal pal are stayin...

Despite the fact that the Yankees led the majors with 103 wins (the World Series victory doesn't matter, since awards are voted on before the postseason), Joe Girardi has very little chance to win. Right or wrong, voters will always hold the Yankees' massive payroll against their manager...

By Greg Fertel Progress: Up until his injury, Suttle had showed a very good amount of progress. Yankee coaches and staff had been impressed with his improvements, and his stock was steadily rising. Baseball America's John Manuel rated Suttle the Yankees' 10th best prospect, directly following Mark Me...

By By DAVID SEIFMAN The Yankees can now legitimately claim to be twice as good as the Mets -- at generating cash for the city. The World Series champs produced "at least $200,000" by selling seats in the luxury suite turned over to the city in the new Yankee Stadium,...

By Greg Fertel GF: What are you up to this offseason? Do the Yankees have you doing anything specific or are you just getting some rest? GF: Have the Yankees given you any indication about where you’ll be next season? Where would you like to start the season?

By By TOM NAMAKO The Yankees victory has even helped fill the cash-strapped coffers at the MTA. The new Yankees-E. 153 St. Metro-North station, which opened in May, brought 12 percent of the fans to the World Series clincher 6,009 of the 50,315 in the stands, record...

By Jeff Summers With the tenth pitch of the at-bat, Philadelphia Phillies centerfielder Shane Victorino hit a slow rolling grounder to New York Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano. Cano scooped it up and tossed the ball to first baseman Mark Teixeira for the final out of the 2009 World Series.

By By BART HUBBUCH As if a Yankees-Phillies World Series wasn't cringe-inducing enough for the Mets, a look ahead to the NL East next season offers little solace. Glancing around the division, it appears the Mets' best hope for 2010 is to sign a power-hitting left f...

By Sam Borden Alex Rodriguez capped an up-and-down year on the highest of highs, finally becoming a champion. Matsui may have been the MVP of the World Series but there’s no doubt that A-Rod was the MVP of the Yankees postseason. Rick Carpiniello has the story.

By Chad Jennings It’s about 20 minutes before two in the morning, and the video board at Yankee Stadium is glowing with five words beneath a picture of the World Series trophy: “Boss, this is for you.” As Hank Steinbrenner said tonight, nine years isn’t much of a wait for most franchises, but for a Yankees...

By Josh Thomson The Yankees are on the field, loosening for one or two more games at Yankee Stadium. They’re all here, and all say they are emboldened by taking the field tomorrow night behind Andy Pettitte — even on short rest. A great deal of Joe Girardi’s press conference today dealt with Pettitte. The 37-y...

By DMtShooter Five Tool Tool gt;Phil Coke entered the game in the seventh, and Chase Utley treated him like just about every other pitcher in this series by crushing a home run to right. In five games, he's got five home runs, and is now tied Reggie Jackson for the most home runs in a World Series. It's just crazy to me that an...

By Chad Jennings “It’s always good when more guys contribute,” Johnny Damon said. “But Alex really got us going with that home run.” UPDATE: Here’s the Pettitte audio. It’s all good stuff, with a nice payoff at the end when he talks about Derek Jeter nearly catching him on the bases. This one comes highly recomm...

By Sam Borden Former Yankee and current YES Network analyst John Flaherty has agreed to break down the pitching match-up for every Yankees postseason game exclusively on the LoHud Yankees blog. Be sure to check him out on the pre- and post-game show on YES today. Here’s his take on the Game 2 starters: YAN...

By Sam Borden YANKEES Derek Jeter SS Johnny Damon LF Mark Teixeira 1B Alex Rodriguez 3B Jorge Posada C Hideki Matsui DH Robinson Cano 2B Nick Swisher RF Melky Cabrera CF Pitching: LHP Andy Pettitte (1-0, 2.84 ERA in postseason) ANGELS Chone Figgins 3B Bobby Abreu RF Torii Hunter CF Vladimir Guerrero DH K...

By Steven Resnick For the record I'm not an Angel fan, pretty much any team facing the Yankees I'll be cheering for the team to beat the Yankees. I was actually hoping that Swisher would tie the score and the Yankees bullpen blow it in the bottom of the ninth.

By Josh Thomson With the forecast calling for a 90 percent chance of rain and the chance of thunderstorms Saturday night, the question was logical. Still, Joe Girardi didn’t hesitate, saying he will pitch Andy Pettitte in Game 6 even if rain pushes it to Sunday.

By Greg Fertel If we start with the assumption that these projections are accurate, then it is very debatable who the starting center fielder should be. These projections say that Austin Jackson is Major League ready, so you wouldn't want to have him repeat Triple-A. Still, Jackson is known as an average...

By Josh Thomson “I think the whole team played tremendous,” Mariano Rivera said. “This is the way we should play.” Mark Teixeira said Sabathia pitched as well as he had all season. It’s hard to argue. After walking 22 in his first 25 career postseason innings, Sabathia now has one in 14.2 as a Yankee.

By Josh Thomson Whether or not John Lackey belongs among the elite pitchers in baseball lies in the eye of the beholder. He is without question the Angels horse in 2009 and has competed admirably in big games both before and since he started Game 7 of the 2002 World Series.

By Chad Jennings Is Joba Chamberlain still a reliever for the ALCS? “As of 12:42 on Wednesday, that’s where I’m at,” Chamberlain said. “We’ll just approach it from there.” And then we’ve got Jorge Posada, who talked quite a bit about how the Yankees can limit the Angels running game. Pretty interesting stuff.

By patrick bohn To some, this photo shows you all you need to know about the Yankees-Twins playoff series. In same ways, this was the perfect example of how the Yankees and Twins differ. Teixeira and Rodriguez are Yankees for a simple reason: The Yankees could pay them what others could not.

By JinAZ 24. Baltimore Orioles.  TQI = 0.439 The power rankings rate the Orioles as the worst team in the American League.  There's good agreement across all of our different win "measures," from reality to cW%.  Breaking them down is simple too: the Orioles were below average in hitting, pitching, an...

By Sam Borden QUIET LUMBER: Despite being up 2-0, the Yankees haven’t gotten much production from the vaunted lineup. Other than A-Rod and Derek Jeter, no Yankee regular is hitting over .300 in the series. Mark Teixiera and Jorge Posada have two hits in the ALDS; Nick Swisher, Melky Cabrera, Hideki Matsu...

By Sam Borden YANKEES Jeter SS Damon LF Teixeira 1B Rodriguez 3B Matsui DH Posada C Cano 2B UPDATE, 3:19 p.m.: The Yankees are on the field and, at this moment, the captain, Derek Jeter, is in the cage. Jeter is wearing a gray hooded Yankees sweatshirt and everyone is in sleeves. It could get chilly tonight.

By cjennings • The Yankees haven’t announced an active roster for the first round, but 30 players still have a name plate on their lockers. That likely means a group of five extra players traveling with the Yankees through the playoffs. Sam and Josh had the breaking news of Jose Molina starting ahead of J...

By Vito Calamito So I have not written for a while, it has been busy, but I just wanted to make some comments on my FIRST PLACE New York Yankees. Maybe it is less stress on his young arm, but more stress on him mentally. After all, it was Yogi and Casey who said, "Half of baseball is 90 percent mental." Look at what hap...

By Vince Mercandetti If it had the same pieces in April and May that it has now it could be on pace for 110 wins, as it is it's on pace for over 101, something unapproached since the 2003 Yankees. And yes, they still play poorly against the Angels and have a losing record against the Red Sox (on a side note, how crazy is i...

By Angelo Joba Chamberlain- 28 years old ( A new contract will likely be established by this time) Second Basemen- Robinson Cano- 31 years old, ( a new contract will likely be established) Center field- Austin Jackson- 27 years old Designated Hitter- Alex Rodriguez- 38 years old, 5 years left

By Angelo This was a great pick for the Yankees in my opinion. It looks like the Yankees are trying to stack up on talented young positional players this year. It's about time! http://www.soxandpinstripes.com/sox_and_pinstripes/2009/06/the-international-free-agent-period-gary-sanchez.h...

By BHL I have been of the opinion for quite some time that Fenway Park is past its day and should be demolished, and with a recent trip to see the New York Yankees take on the New York Mets on June 13, 2009, I'm not quite sure I can happily attend another Red Sox game at Fenway.

By Tom Schecter Paul O'Neill, David Cone, and Tino Martinez got probably the loudest cheers from the first audience ever to set foot in the new Yankee Stadium. Other well-loved notables: Berra, Randolph, Boomer Wells (who sat in the bleachers for the game!) and Goony Bird Larsen.

By Vince Mercandetti Lost in the shuffle of the offseason under the pile of new signings, position battles and A-Rod dramas was perhaps the most exciting part of 2009 for Yankees fans;their new stadium. I have my own impressions from watching the exhibition games against the Cubs over the weekend, but our budd...

 CA by Kevin Rozell (Columnist) The new cap will still have the interlocking “NY” on the front of it, but it will also have a patch commemorating the inaugural season in the New Yankee Stadium. The unusual part about it is that the Yanks’ are the first ...

By Peter Abraham The New York Yankees announced today that the team will wear a special patch on their 2008 uniforms commemorating the final season of Yankee Stadium. In addition, the team will also don a patch in honor of the 2008 All-Star Game that ...

By Steve Lombardi A Minor League baseball player for the New York Yankees was arrested after refusing to leave a restaurant/bar even after being told he was no longer welcome there. Krum was drafted by New York in 2007 and currently plays outfield for the Staten Island Yankees.

By Steve Lombardi Yeah, I know, stupid of me to dare compare Yankees prospects (who are all wunderkind and Über-valuable) to prospects from an organization other than the Yankees (who, being non-Yankees prospects, are all therefore just minor league filler). Stupid, stupid, stoooop-id!

By Steve Lombardi Here Come the Yankees" is the official theme song of the New York Yankees baseball team. They're the New York YANKEES Show them today why you're the YANKEES No other way when you're the YANKEES Wadda ya say we win a brand, new, ballgame

By Amy Post-season Yankees tickets can be purchased online. See NewYorkology's guide to Yankee Stadium for the rundown on how to get there, where to meet, eat and eventually, sit. Also, NY Waterway will run its Yankee Clipper to and from all ...

Red Sox highlight of 2008 home schedule subscription), OH - The series should draw crowds and media like the New York Yankees' visit in 2003. Opening Day ... not the Cubs. For the first time since 2005, the Reds will ...