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Sports Central September 26, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Jeter, Overmatched, But Not Outclassed Jeter's farewell season has been somewhat controversial for the point that questions arose all year long as to whether the 40-year-old Yankee captain belonged in the lineup as a regular anymore. |
Sports Central February 7, 2011 Ryan Day |
A Tribute to Andy Pettitte After months of straddling the fence, former Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte is retiring from baseball, leaving a void in the Bronx Bombers' bullpen. |
BusinessWeek June 9, 2011 Roger Lowenstein |
Book Review: Bullpen Diaries by Charley Rosen Understanding the booming, illogical relief pitcher economy through an appraisal of Mariano Rivera |
Sports Central October 14, 2004 Piet Van Leer |
Paterinty Test Revealed: Yanks Are Pedro's Daddy Management is different, the players are different, the game is different, but the Red Sox remain unchanged. Maybe there really is a curse. Or maybe Vegas and the prognosticators were wrong, and the Yankees really are the better team. |
Sports Central October 30, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 2: "That's Like, Wow, He Was On" The A.J. Burnett who makes you reach for the meds and maybe the couch? He wasn't anywhere within 40 nautical miles of the south Bronx Thursday night. |
Sports Illustrated November 6, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Greatness on display Hall of Fame-bound hurlers were the story of Game 7... |
Salon.com October 17, 2001 Allen Barra |
The decline and fall of the Yankees -- I mean, the A's Ancient arrogance beats the youthful variety -- this time... |
Sports Central October 18, 2010 Bill Hazell |
Yankees Hanging From a Cliff On paper, the 2010 ALCS is tied at one game apiece, with the teams heading back to New York for three games. |
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 April 18, 2006 Piet Van Leer |
New Year, Same Old Yankee Pinstripes If you're a New York Yankees fan, there is good cause for concern. |
Sports Illustrated October 25, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Opening act Games 1 and 2 will decide the Fall Classic... |
Sports Central November 1, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 3: The Camera Blinked A clean enough double was actually a two-run bomb - the ball had hit a television camera off the right field fence. |
Salon.com October 26, 2001 King Kaufman |
The Yankees in six There. I said it. The Diamondbacks have a shot, but not really... |
Sports Central October 20, 2007 Greg Wyshynski |
The End of the Torre Dynasty Joe Torre's decision to break free of his ever-tarnishing cage in the Bronx Zoo officially signals the end of an era for the Yankees franchise. |
Sports Central July 17, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
2013 All-Star Game: Priceless Who'd have figured American League All-Star manager Jim Leyland thinking he could perform the marriage of sentiment and sound strategy in a single gesture and get away with it because, damn it, it worked, the American League held onto a 3-0 win? |
Sports Central November 3, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 5: Cutting to the Chase All of a sudden there's a change in the weather in the Philadelphia clubhouse. |
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. |
Salon.com November 4, 2001 King Kaufman |
Surprise ending If life followed a script, the Yankees would have won the World Series. But it doesn't, and they didn't... |
Salon.com October 30, 2001 King Kaufman |
Big mistake, Arizona If you want to beat the Yankees in a World Series, don't win the first two games... |
Sports Central August 9, 2011 Bill Hazell |
The Other Yankee Chasing History Mariano Rivera's legacy should outshine Derek Jeter's in the public eye, but it won't. In the same manner, his quest for history has been all but swept under the carpet. |
Sports Central October 10, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
The Orioles Like Mondays, So Far What a difference Monday makes. To Jim Johnson and to the Baltimore Orioles. |
Sports Illustrated July 30, 2002 Tom Verducci |
A glimmer of hope Opponents could benefit as the Yankees' rotation struggles. |
Sports Central July 2, 2007 Piet Van Leer |
Time For Cashman to Go The nightmare of having Brian Cashman as general manager of the New York Yankees must end. |
Sports Central September 22, 2010 Bill Hazell |
Save Some Drama For the Playoffs The Yankees and Rays simply bring out the best in themselves and each other. |
Salon.com October 21, 2000 Allen Barra |
The traffic jam Series Thanks to a bloated playoff format and declining TV viewership, this year's World Series doesn't have quite the resonance of those from the "Golden Age"... |
Sports Central June 1, 2004 Hank Waddles |
Rivera Closing in on Cooperstown In an era when closers don't typically pitch more than the ninth inning, Rivera has set himself apart with frequent two-inning saves, especially in the playoffs and World Series. This is only one of an impressive number of lines on a resume which will surely land him a spot in the Hall of Fame. |
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 September 13, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
The Captain at the Crossroads? Derek Jeter isn't a man who wants to be remembered for a twice-fractured ankle reducing him to a bad, sad impersonation of what he once was. |
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 November 5, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 6: A Long Time Coming Well, now we know how Joe Girardi's gamble on a three-man, three-days-rest World Series rotation worked for him. It won the Yankees a 27th World Series title. |
Sports Central November 3, 2004 Piet Van Leer |
Where it All Went Wrong There are many instances where you can reflect and wonder where it all went wrong for the New York Yankees this season. But the truth is, they faced the same problem in the World Series that they faced all season -- a dearth of starting pitching. |
Sports Illustrated September 24, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Taking the mound Rotation will have greatest impact on Yankees postseason |
Sports Illustrated May 23, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
Change of plans Jason Giambi has added more power than patience to the Yankees... |
Sports Central October 26, 2003 M. Edward Guest |
World Champion Marlins Are Ultimate Opportunists Even though many puritans and fair-minded people contend that they did not deserve this, they earned it nonetheless. |
Sports Central July 18, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
The All-Star Game: Groovin' What happened at the All-Star Game with Derek Jeter and Adam Wainwright. |
Sports Central October 16, 2012 Bob Ekstrom |
For Yankees, No Panic In Detroit (Just Yet) After dropping two home games against the Tigers, the New York Yankees have come face-to-face with their postseason mortality as the ALCS now shifts to Detroit. |
Sports Central October 6, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Season-Ending Races Live Up to Hype Some say that the same teams in 2005 that succeeded to reach the postseason in Major League Baseball in 2004 are old-hat. But this year, unlike past seasons, the road to success was nothing but routine for several of these perennial winners. |
Sports Central June 15, 2007 Rich Lyons |
The Uprising of the Yankees The Yankees make their inevitable climb towards the top of the division. |
Salon.com October 27, 2000 Allen St. John |
Champions again, thank you very much Hype about a blood feud aside, the Mets prove to be delightful hosts as the Yankees storm to another title... |
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. |
Salon.com October 31, 2001 Allen Barra |
Why no one's going to watch the World Series this year Hint: It has nothing to do with the Yankees (who are going to win again)... |
Sports Central October 23, 2010 Jess Coleman |
2010 Offseason Will Be Tough For Yanks Just like every offseason, the Yankees will look to improve their team. However, the Yankees are going to be faced with many decisions that will induce crucial effects on the future success of the Yankees on, and off, the field. |
Salon.com October 8, 2002 Allen Barra |
What do you say now, Bud Selig? The victories of the Angels, Twins and Cards show how empty the owners' and commissioners' arguments were. |
Sports Illustrated October 8, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Rebuilding the dynasty Here's some advice for the Yankees to use this offseason. |
Sports Central June 10, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Brien's Song Brien Taylor's may be only the saddest of stories involving baseball's number-one draft picks. Here are some others who didn't flower fully for assorted reasons |
Sports Central April 19, 2010 Bill Hazell |
Jimenez Should Thank His Manager Ubaldo Jimenez, the rifle-armed right-hander in the Colorado Rockies' rotation, is lucky. |
Salon.com November 2, 2001 King Kaufman |
What next? With the World Series headed back to Phoenix for the finale, the Yankees have taught us to expect the extraordinary... |
Sports Central November 8, 2010 Clinton Riddle |
Let the Cliff Lee Sweepstakes Begin Now that free agents are hitting the market, there's one player who everyone is watching. Wherever he ends up, that team is going to pay out the nose for him. And he'll be worth every cent. |
Sports Illustrated October 24, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Seventh Heaven Can a pair of aces keep the Yankees from another title? |
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. |