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Yankees Rants and Questions
Baseball Hot Corner | August 19th 2008 by mark serio
Scanning the Yankees' news today got me going, time for a therapeutic rant:"Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe had this quote from a scout: “In a few years, Melky (Cabrera) will be playing in some independent league. Or in the Mexican League.” The read more
Yankees' Rumors,Plans, Notes & Quotes
Baseball Hot Corner | August 17th 2008 by mark serio
Brett Gardner brought a breath of fresh air to the Bronx Saturday. The rookie's walk off single bailed out the beleaguered Bombers and momentarily eased their pain. The season wanes, the pennant race fades and the focus shifts:"I've never seen a tea read more
Yankees "Tweak" Roster
Baseball Hot Corner | August 16th 2008 by mark serio
The floundering New York Yankees shipped Melky Cabrera's smile to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Friday. The Melkman mired in a prolonged slump was hitting .242. Cabrera the Yankees regular center fielder for three years, defied scouting reports that labeled read more
Blogging on Yanks' Cashman
Baseball Hot Corner | August 15th 2008 by mark serio
Turns out, I'm not the only Yankees' blogger that isn't on the Brian Cashman bandwagon. Baseball Hot Corner has published 556 articles since it's inception in 2007. The #1 topic? Brian Cashman. It wasn't supposed to be like this. My interests are on read more
Current Dark Days Make Future Decisions Loom Large
The Official Scorer | August 14th 2008 by Andrew
Today is dark on the schedule, so it makes it easier to let the ineptitude of the team’s now mercifully completed road trip really sink in. 3 wins out of 10 games away from the Bronx. Utterly pathetic, even when you consider that three of the losse read more
Yankees' revealing headlines
Baseball Hot Corner | August 14th 2008 by mark serio
The Yanks limp home from the road to Perdition. Start spreading the news:"Inept effort against Twins ends Yankees' 3-7 trip" "Yanks Just Don’t Have Their Heads in the Game""We definitely underachieved on this road trip.""It seemed like he had an ea read more
Yankees transition to nowhere
Baseball Hot Corner | August 14th 2008 by mark serio
What a difference a year makes. The 2007 New York Yankees were riddled with injuries, stumbled from the gate and were revived with an influx of youthful enthusiasm. Joba, Duncan, Melky and Cano brought smiles to the face of a morose, rickety roster. read more
Heyman: Yanks Expected to Offer Cashman an Extension
Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog. | August 13th 2008 by Greg C.
From Jon Heyman:Never mind the Yankees' current standing in third place, or their recent struggles. Both Steinbrenner brothers are now said by people familiar with their thinking to be on board with Brian Cashman as their general manager, for now and read more
Yankees move backwards
Baseball Hot Corner | August 12th 2008 by mark serio
The sun is setting on the 2008 New York Yankees. Last night's shutout at the hands of the Minnesota Twins, leaves the Yanks grasping at the straws of a five game deficit in the loss column, for the wild-card. The division is a pipe dream. "You get t read more
Yankees' rehab report
Baseball Hot Corner | August 8th 2008 by mark serio
The Yankees' transition to the future is built on the foundation of Brian Cashman's philosophy of acquiring high ceiling prospects, with dubious medical histories. Blend fragile youth with an old, rickety roster and you get a never ending list of reh read more
Melky Cabrera's Yankees' bandwagon
Baseball Hot Corner | August 7th 2008 by mark serio
I came across this over at LoHud in an article titled, "The great Melky myth.": "The Melky Cabrera Fan Club is a persistent bunch.Joe Torre was a charter member. He used to say that the Melkman gave the team energy. He even kicked Johnny Damon out of read more
Yankees' notes
Baseball Hot Corner | August 1st 2008 by mark serio
Enough with the trade rumors, time to deal with the reality of the pennant race. Here's a few notes of interest:Pudge will be missed:"He was a consummate gamer, as they say, in the business. Off days were not his flavor. He would hunch behind the pla read more
Manny Gets His Way, Sails Off to LA-LA Land
Boston Sports Blog: Rants & Raves from the Left Coast | July 31st 2008 by BG
Hitting savant and malcontent Manny Ramirez was sent out of Boston and to the Los Angeles Dodgers in a three-way deal that included the Pittsburgh Pirates right before the trading deadline.The Red Sox may have rushed this deal because they gave up a read more
Bombers bludgeon Birds, trade Farnsworth for Pudge
The Analytical Yankee Fan | July 30th 2008 by khidden
The Yankees offense exploded against the Orioles this afternoon, handing them a thorough beating to the tune of 13-3. Joba pitched an effective 6 innings, giving up only two runs. Bobby Abreu homered twice. Game Wraps and summaries- Yankees’ of read more
Marte returns to Yankees
Baseball Hot Corner | July 29th 2008 by mark serio
The Yanks deal with the Pirates filled a gaping hole in the bullpen. Damaso Marte should fill a long standing void. The irony of the effusive kudos coming Brian Cashman's way is that he originally traded him away:"the lack of a remotely competent lef read more
Yankees change tune
Baseball Hot Corner | July 27th 2008 by mark serio
The Yankees' eight game winning streak, against winning teams has taken them from the depths of despair to traditional euphoria. When NY wobbled to the break with a whimper, Andy Pettitte summed it up, "We stink,"after yesterdays blowout of the Red read more
Cashman’s Dilemma
Bleeding Blue and Teal: a Seattle Mariners blog | July 27th 2008 by blueandteal
When the Philadelphia Phillies were rumored to be interested in Erik Bedard a couple of weeks ago it put Phillies GM Pat Gillick in a bit of a moral dilemma. There had been rumors that Gillick could be Seattle bound after season’s end, meani read more
Here Comes The Yankees!
Behind The Bag | July 26th 2008 by Cleon
The Yankees are up 7-3 on the Red Sox in the 7th inning at Fenway. A win today would put the Yanks one game back of Boston for the wild card (the Rays lead the division by 1 over the Sox and 3 over the Yanks.) If the Yanks hold on, it will be their 8 read more
Yankees' trade strategy
Baseball Hot Corner | July 25th 2008 by mark serio
The MLB trade deadline looms and the names just keep on coming. Don't believe the blather--Hank Steinbrenner throwing the media a bone by dropping Bonds name is a ploy. Balco Barry, in the Big Apple, to close out the House That Ruth Built, while bran read more
Yankees uphold tradition
Baseball Hot Corner | July 24th 2008 by mark serio
The Yankees six game winning streak has them in a familiar place--deja vu all over again. August is on the horizon and the pennant race is on, life is good. If someone had suggested in spring training that Generation Trey would have two wins, Posada read more
Yankees' shifting expectations
Baseball Hot Corner | July 21st 2008 by mark serio
The Yanks have gone from perennial favorites to one of a long list of playoff hopefuls. The bar has been lowered to the point that making the post season will be considered a success. Forgotten is the fact that the Bronx Bombers have a distinct advan read more
Big Richie in the Big Apple
Rain Delay | July 18th 2008 by Rain Delay
A bit behind here, but former Mariner Richie Sexson has been picked up by the New York Yankees. This is a drop in the bucket for the Yanks as far as money goes. The Mariners are responsible for the $14 million owed to him this year, and the Yanks pay read more
Yankees' trade rumors
Baseball Hot Corner | July 17th 2008 by mark serio
The All-Star exhibition is over, time to focus on the games that count. The MLB trade deadline is on the horizon. The Bombers' brass might almost be somewhat ready to spring into action. Let's hear from team architect Brian Cashman: ""I would say any read more
Rumors: Vidro, Bedard, Ibanez +
Bleeding Blue and Teal: a Seattle Mariners blog | July 15th 2008 by blueandteal
A lot of us thought it absurd that Richie Sexson was let go before the even more useless Jose Vidro, but it seems order is slowly returning to the universe. This from Prospect Insider’s sidebar: There are some rumors starting to swirl around read more
Yanks' Jeter dissected
Baseball Hot Corner | July 14th 2008 by mark serio
Yankees' captain Derek Jeter is under the microscope, again. Here's a few links of interest:"Davey Johnson, the manager in the Futures Game and in the upcoming Olympics, joked Sunday that he taught A's general manager Billy Beane "everything he knows read more
Yankees at crossroads
Baseball Hot Corner | July 14th 2008 by mark serio
It wasn't long ago that the New York Yankees' organization was easy to figure out. Quotes like, "The season will only be a success if we win it all," reverberated in the House that Ruth Built. The bar was set impossibly high, but at least you knew w read more
Yankee offense: Explosive, but has a very, very disturbing proble…
The Analytical Yankee Fan | July 9th 2008 by khidden
This is how often some of our batters strike out every 162 games played- Derek Jeter: 113(This is sad for a “contact hitter”) Bobby Abreu: 127 Alex Rodriguez: 129 Jason Giambi: 113 Jorge Posada: 129 Wilson Betemit: 104 Let me tell you read more
Yanks figure to do nothing
Baseball Hot Corner | July 6th 2008 by mark serio
The trade deadline looms; the Yankees' season wanes. Questions linger:Buyers or Sellers? "I don't think there's going to be any (major changes)--for most of the teams in baseball, 90 percent of the teams in baseball--there's not going to be anything read more
Yanks' shaky foundation
Baseball Hot Corner | July 4th 2008 by mark serio
The Boston Red Sox systematically took apart the reeling Yankees at the Stadium Thursday, beating the Bombers 7-0. The scoreboard doesn't tell the whole story. "It's embarrassing...Once we got down, it was like there was nothing there."--Damon.New sk read more
Yankees' gibberish
Baseball Hot Corner | July 3rd 2008 by mark serio
"I still hear in my dreams the wild stupid gibberish coming out of that yo-yo's mouth."--Hunter S. Thompson."We've got to start hitting. It's getting ridiculous..."--Hank Steinbrenner.You got that right. The new boss had more to say:"Even when I was read more
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