Palladino: Pudge's First-Ballot Election Bodes Well For A-Rod
By the time Alex Rodriguez becomes eligible for the Hall of Fame in five years, the convicted and suspected stars of baseball's "Steroids era" will have plaques hanging in Cooperstown.
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By the time Alex Rodriguez becomes eligible for the Hall of Fame in five years, the convicted and suspected stars of baseball's "Steroids era" will have plaques hanging in Cooperstown.
The New York Yankees plan to go to salary arbitration with reliever Dellin Betances, which would be the team's first hearing in nearly a decade.
The left-handed relief pitcher was dealt to the Cleveland Indians, who came within a hair of winning the world championship, falling to the Cubs in extra innings of a classic World Series Game 7.
The team avoided salary arbitration by reaching agreements with shortstop Didi Gregorius, starting pitcher Michael Pineda and backup catcher Austin Romine, WFAN baseball insider Jon Heyman reported Friday.
Brian Cashman is preaching patience with his young Yankees, but one has to wonder just how long they'll get by with this suspect rotation.
There are very few players -- if any -- that I covered that were more emotional than Jorge Posada.
This is a stressful time for Mike Mussina. And it actually has nothing to do with the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Sitting flush against the wall along the entrance inside the TM Baseball Academy in the Bronx, Ray Negron was buoyed by organizing an event to help underprivileged kids through baseball, and elated that Dwight Gooden had shown up.
The teams' owners have reportedly been discussing the possibility for a couple of years. Now that there's a new collective bargaining agreement in place that spells out a commitment to playing games outside the U.S. and Canada, there appears to be more momentum behind the idea.
Goody, 25, appeared in 27 games last season. He had a 4.66 ERA and 34 strikeouts over 29 innings.
Quintana, who turns 28 next month, was 13-12 with a 3.20 ERA and 181 strikeouts in 208 innings last season.
Youth movements like the one the Yankees are currently working through often come at the expense of veteran leadership.
Aroldis Chapman says Cubs manager Joe Maddon misused him during the postseason, putting the hard-throwing reliever on the mound too often in Chicago's successful effort to win the World Series for the first time since 1908.
The team's co-chairman thinks young players who came up late this season such as Gary Sanchez, Aaron Judge and Tyler Austin and others still developing in the farm system can soon become the face of New York's next dynasty.
Given he never pitched into the ninth inning this year, CC Sabathia is happy the Yankees brought back Aroldis Chapman.
Alexander Figueredo, a 20-year-old pitching prospect in the Yankees' system, was shot dead in his native Venezuela last month, according to multiple reports.
That baseball hazing ritual of dressing up rookies as Wonder Woman, Hooters Girls and Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders is now banned.
Tejada, 27, spent the first six years of his major-league career with the Mets, playing mostly shortstop, but also seeing time at second and third bases.
Boston's Dave Dombrowski walked up to Brian Cashman outside the room where the winter meeting draft was about to start Thursday and gave the Yankees general manager a slap on the back.
This year marks the seventh edition of the bowl game, as Northwestern takes on Pittsburgh at 2 p.m. on Dec. 28.
Matt Holliday told reporters earlier this week that he was excited to be joining the Yankees and feels like he will be better than he was in 2016 when he put up the worst numbers of his career.
Everything involving Aroldis Chapman and the Yankees over the last 12 months has turned out about as well as they could have hoped. Now comes the hard part.
Aroldis Chapman found a spot in a most familiar bullpen — a very rich spot, too.
Free agent outfielder Matt Holliday and the New York Yankees have finalized a $13 million, one-year contract.
The Yankees may not be the Yankees of recent vintage when it comes to consistently breaking the bank for free agents, but they still act with purpose when intrigued. Aroldis Chapman has their attention, and then some.
