Cashman: Yankees 'In A Position To Do Some Transitioning'
It was a stunning reversal for the New York Yankees as the organization became sellers at the trade deadline.
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It was a stunning reversal for the New York Yankees as the organization became sellers at the trade deadline.
The Yankees literally jettisoned their three best players and three most gripping reasons to watch them for the rest of the season.
Starlin Castro's sacrifice fly in the top of the 10th inning lifted the New York Yankees to a 6-5 win over the New York Mets on Monday night in the first Subway Series game of the season at Citi Field.
The Yankees may now have the best farm system in all of baseball.
By the end of business Monday, both the Yankees and Mets may have reached for the white linens and hung them high on the clotheslines for all to see.
Hours after trading away reliever Andrew Miller to the Indians, the New York Yankees' struggles continued, as the last-place Tampa Bay Rays completed a three-game sweep Sunday with a 5-3 win over the Yankees at Tropicana Field.
Cleveland will send four players, including highly touted outfielder Clint Frazier, to New York in exchange for Miller, one of baseball's best set-up men.
Given one last chance to showcase himself before the trade deadline, Rays starter Jake Odorizzi pitched six-plus shutout innings to lead Tampa Bay to a 5-1 vicotry Friday over the New York Yankees.
The Yankees, who open a three-game series at Tampa Bay on Friday night, have won eight of their last 11 games and sit 3 1/2 games out of the second wild-card spot in the American League.
The Washington Nationals are reportedly willing to part ways with top pitching prospect Lucas Giolito in exchange for Yankees closer Andrew Miller.
The 1996 World Series did not start out well for Joe Torre and the New York Yankees.
New York City born and raised, Jon Daniels was a Mets fan and WFAN listener (one-time caller) as a kid.
Lance McCullers posted his fourth double-digit strikeout start on the season, and Colby Rasmus snapped a prolonged slump with a home run as the Houston Astros averted a sweep.
CC Sabathia snapped a six-start winless streak and the New York Yankees claimed their third consecutive series with a 6-3 victory over the Houston Astros.
A burglar smashed a glass display case holding the Hickok Belt, which since 1950 has been awarded to athletes including Muhammed Ali, Mickey Mantle, Sandy Koufax and Ben Hogan, police said.
