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Sports Central August 14, 2009 Eric Engberg |
The American League MVP Race Looking at the top contenders, darkhorses and others as candidates for the American League MVP. |
Sports Central September 16, 2006 Bob Ekstrom |
Jeter, Ortiz Win Primaries, Face Off in Nov. Baseball is already preoccupied with potential winners of its most coveted honor: league MVP. |
Sports Central August 29, 2006 Bill Hazell |
Landslide: Who Wants AL Playoff Spots? Incredibly, most of baseball's American League powers seem quite content in giving each other a good head-start going into the final home stretch in September. |
Sports Central May 2, 2007 Bob Ekstrom |
Well Done, Mr. April April is and has been many things. This year, it was A-Rod's. |
Sports Central November 19, 2005 Jeff Pohlmeyer |
A-Rod and Bartolo: Definitely Valuable Boston's hatred of Alex Rodriguez ends with the fans of their beloved team. On Monday, A-Rod was rightfully voted the Most Valuable Player in the American League by the baseball writers for the second time in three years. |
Sports Central June 15, 2007 Rich Lyons |
The Uprising of the Yankees The Yankees make their inevitable climb towards the top of the division. |
Sports Central September 29, 2009 Bill Hazell |
Any Drama Left in September? We can only hope the story of September 2009, the last month of regular season baseball in this decade, has yet to be written. |
Sports Central September 24, 2004 Vincent Musco |
AL MVP Debate: Manny, Vlad, or Sheff? Recent history proves that projecting the American League's Most Valuable Player has become a fool's task. Still, through some light detective work, we may be able to narrow the field. |
Sports Central August 24, 2009 Scott Shepherd |
The American League Shark Tank A good shark always knows a good deal when he sees one. 6/5 odds on the Yankees to win the AL, as unimpressive as it looks on paper, is still a better deal than anything you can get on any of the other teams. |
Sports Central October 13, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
What Happened to the Yanks? The 2005 postseason for the New York Yankees followed one of the most challenging of all regular seasons for manager Joe Torre. |
Sports Central October 6, 2008 Kyle Jahner |
Setting the Stage For October Rays and Brewers and Cubs will battle in October. Even the Twins have a shot to crash the party. But the Yankees, Tigers, Mets, and their nine-figure payrolls failed to make the guest list. |
Sports Central August 15, 2010 Jess Coleman |
Yankees' Future is Grid-Locked With all the great players on the Yankees every year, young players have to wait for an injury, trade, or retirement to see time in the majors. |
Sports Central August 27, 2009 Matt Thomas |
Also-Rans Key During MLB Stretch Run Because baseball must go on, even in those cities where the race has been over since mid-May, what follows is a breakdown of the five most relevant irrelevant teams in Major League Baseball for the balance of the 2009 season. |
The Motley Fool October 13, 2004 Tim Beyers |
Invest Like Steinbrenner You might hate his tactics and his team, but the New York Yankees owner is one heck of an investor. |
Sports Central June 22, 2007 Matt Thomas |
Five Truths About the '07 MLB Season Things aren't what they seem in baseball -- until at least June 1. |
Sports Central September 11, 2007 Aaron Miller |
Pay-Rod New York actually wants, maybe even needs Alex Rodriguez, and only they can really afford to make him feel the same way. |
Sports Central July 13, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Derek Jeter's All-Star Blessing A lot of the folk are hemming and hawing over Derek Jeter's withdrawal from the All-Star Game. But nobody seems to catch onto his withdrawal as an inadvertent blessing upon it. |
Sports Central July 22, 2005 Bob Ekstrom |
Lordy, Lordy, Look Who's ... 30? With or without a birthday, Alex Rodriquez always draws a lot of controversy. Why do opinions on him vary so widely? |
Sports Central September 27, 2006 Piet Van Leer |
Trouble Brewing in the Bronx There is no secret that pitching is what wins in the postseason. And the New York Yankees have some gaping holes that area. |
Sports Illustrated June 12, 2001 Stephen Cannella |
Twin Delivery High-riding Minnesota made local schoolboy hero Joe Mauer the No. 1 pick in Baseball's draft... |
Sports Central August 23, 2005 Bob Ekstrom |
AL Pennant: Yanks' For the Taking? Well Beantowners, start your guest lists if you must, but don't set that date for this year's Yankee Elimination Party quite yet. It might not come. The Yanks will be hitting the playoffs in peak form. |
Sports Central August 25, 2008 Scott Shepherd |
AL Wild Card Wild Cards Here's a look at the chase for the AL wild card and examine some possible wild cards each team has. |
Sports Central October 2, 2003 Jeff Zaginailoff |
Looking Ahead, and Back, At the World Series Matchups A look at the possible World Series matchups and the history between the teams. |
Salon.com March 31, 2001 Allen Barra |
Everything you know is wrong The major leagues are more competitive than ever, small-market teams can compete, and home runs and giant salaries aren't ruining the game. Plus: Who's going to Cooperstown? |
Sports Central December 26, 2005 Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Yanks Look Like AL East Champs It's impossible to tell what the regular starting lineup for the Yankees is going to be come March, but you can be confident that it will look like an all-star team. |
Sports Central February 27, 2006 Isaac Miller |
2006 MLB Preview: American League It was an interesting offseason in the American League. Yet some burning questions still remain. |
Sports Central September 18, 2003 Marco Santana |
End of Season Baseball Musings A few random musings as the baseball season nears its end. |
Sports Central February 24, 2004 Mike Round |
Why A-Rod Doesn't Guarantee a Yankee Championship Alexander Rodriguez becomes a Yankee as the new third baseman for the Bronx Bombers. The deal may have sent shock waves along I-95 to New England, but it guarantees George Steinbrenner nothing. |
Sports Central September 28, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
Yanks/Sox: "It's Like a Disagreement in a Family" "It's a heated rivalry," said Boston"s Dave Roberts. "There's respect between the teams, but there's no love lost." |
Sports Central December 25, 2008 Sean Crowe |
The Yankees Have Ruined My Christmas Someone needs to remind the Yankees that the United States is going through a pretty bad recession. |
Sports Central September 16, 2005 Chris Cornell |
Sox Take a Look in Rearview If the Boston Red Sox thought they could just cruise into the playoffs without getting a fight from the Evil Empire, they'd better think again. |
Sports Central July 26, 2005 Billy Davis |
New and True in Yankee Blue What sort of test must a newcomer pass before earning recognition as a true New York Yankee? Thursday night's game against the Red Sox offered such a test for Alex Rodriguez. |
Sports Central January 13, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
A-Rod Agonistes, the Final Chapter? We could see a 2014 baseball season and maybe more without Alex Rodriguez, after all. |
Sports Central August 21, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
At Least it Wasn't a Massacre There was a difference between this weekend's Boston Massacre and the one which helped to send the Red Sox toward eventual sinking 28 years before. |
Salon.com August 31, 2002 King Kaufman |
Savoring the season that almost wasn't 2002 hasn't been a classic, but it's great that the heroics of Schilling, A-Rod and the rest won't be lost. |
Sports Illustrated May 23, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
Change of plans Jason Giambi has added more power than patience to the Yankees... |
Sports Central August 12, 2004 William Geoghegan |
The Complex Psyche of Red Sox Nation In the world of stats and results, the 2004 Red Sox are not dramatically different from the 2003 team that got within one game of the World Series. |
Sports Central May 2, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB's Upstarts and Stalwarts What makes the baseball season so special is that no individual player's achievement or any team's success is greater than the entirety of the game. |
Sports Central September 9, 2005 Chris Cornell |
Tribe Take Over First in the Wildcard The Cleveland Indians have put together an impressive season in a year where they were still supposed to be rebuilding. |
Sports Central September 5, 2006 Mike Round |
Hot Topics as MLB Season Winds Down The A-Rod "slump" saga... Jim Leyland for AL Manager of the Year?... It's odds-against for the Boston Red Sox making the postseason... A few words on the AL MVP debate... etc. |
Sports Central September 5, 2004 Diane M. Grassi |
Yankees' Failures Not News You don't need to be a rocket scientist to see what may be coming. But whatever the outcome this season, the team's 2004 legacy will be mostly about its failed management and ownership, not its players. |
Sports Central November 2, 2009 Bill Hazell |
The Unlikely New Mr. Clutch On Sunday night, A-Rod earned his pinstripes once and for all. |
Sports Central June 13, 2007 Bob Ekstrom |
Can Pitching Really Win the AL Pennant? If the old baseball adage holds, these two teams should be locking horns in the ALCS come October, right? Maybe not. |
Sports Central October 20, 2005 Mike Round |
The Boss Needs to Play NL Ball The problem with the Yankees, as always, is Steinbrenner himself -- who thinks he's a fantasy GM and runs his personal fiefdom with meddlesome inefficiency. |
Sports Central September 12, 2012 Bob Ekstrom |
Orioles Storming Through September The hangover that has lingered in Boston this summer has cleared enough landscape to dig out a new cellar for the division. It will not be in Baltimore this year. |
Sports Central January 28, 2006 Bill Hazell |
Fools Gold Yet Again For Yankees? With its new Murderer's Row lineup, the Yankees can't lose. Except they said the same thing last year. And the year before. |
Sports Central March 29, 2010 Bob Ekstrom |
Red Sox vs. Yankees a Real Buzz Kill There's magic in the air, so the big question is, why have Major League Baseball and ESPN conspired to kill the buzz? They're doing exactly that on Opening Night. |
Sports Central March 3, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
Yankees Hopeful Winter Deals Pay Off The Yankees appear substantially better off for the 2005 season, given their pitching acquisitions, but doubts still remain for the long haul in center field and at first base. |
Sports Central December 1, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
A Baseball Negotiation, My Foot Derek Jeter may have won a 2010 Gold Glove that he doesn't really deserve. But neither does he deserve the apparent negotiating strategy of the New York Yankees, for whom he has been the franchise. |
Sports Central June 11, 2009 Kyle Jahner |
MLB All-Star Voting Picks: AL In sports we actually have objective evidence of the most deserving candidate available in seconds at the click of a mouse, but voters are generally just as vulnerable to local biases, preconceived notions, and media-exposure inequities. |