Ian O’Connor thinks it might be wonderful that the Yankees are going to be without the second best player in baseball for an extended period: And yet this is no cause for the mass hysteria that greeted Y2K. The team could lose its most feared and productive hitter, and yet the sky isn’t falling on […]

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Summer 2007: Posada kicks butt Fall 2007: Posada signs gigantic contract 2008-onward: Posada breaks down: Yankees catcher Jorge Posada said the new soreness in his surgically repaired right shoulder was nothing to worry about. But there was enough concern within the Yankees’ medical staff for Manager Joe Girardi to scratch Posada from the lineup for […]

Pete has been agitating about this for a while, but now it’s official: The New York Yankees and Bank of America ended months of negotiations on a long-term, high-profile sponsorship agreement, fallout from the financial industry’s decision to accept aid from the federal government. While the sides never discussed naming rights to the team’s new […]

OK, that’s a bit premature. But we do have game action! Alex Rodriguez was booed, then homered in his first game since admitting he used a banned substance. The New York Yankees slugger started the spring training season with a two-run home run and two walks Wednesday at the Toronto Blue Jays’ ballpark. The third […]

Mets! Yankees! Madoff! Stanford! Johnny Damon, earning $13 million this season, cannot pay his bills. Xavier Nady, earning $6.55 million, cannot purchase an apartment in New York. The Stanford Financial Group scandal extends to Major League Baseball. The issues facing Damon and Nady — both New York Yankees outfielders and both clients of agent Scott […]

The week of Feb. 15 featured a number of notable events in baseball history. Richard looks back at several.

Richard Sandomir notes that the YES Network is trying, at least temporarily, to airbrush A-Rod out of Yankee history: To an extent, Rodriguez is fighting for redemption at YES, which Scott Boras, his agent, said in 2007 would see its worth rise with long-term aid from his client’s so-called “iconic value.” But recent actions taken […]

This photo was put up because A.J. Burnett is holding his junk, and man, ain’t that a hoot? However, am I crazy or does CC Sabathia look like he dropped some weight this offseason? I realize that the blue-with-white panels on the practice jersey may be creating an artificial slimming effect, but he does seem […]

They really don’t like the Yankees in New England: The Lowell Spinners (short season; NY-Penn League) announced the continuation of a popular program: eliminating the New York Yankees in youth baseball programs throughout New England. Originally developed as a response to the heartbreak and taunting children assigned to Yankees youth baseball and softball teams face, […]