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• Granderson Gives Yankees 'Comfort,' Tigers Not Rebuilding
• By Matt Snyder 12/09/2009 5:10 PM ET
• INDIANAPOLIS -- Though Yankees general manager Brian Cashman wouldn't rule out bringing back either Johnny Damon or Hideki Matsui, he did mention that the acquisition of Curtis Granderson via trade ... More »
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• School's Out for Winter: Here Are Lessons Learned From 2009 Postseason
• By Ed Price 11/05/2009 8:19 PM ET
• NEW YORK -- The Yankees had just begun celebrating their 27th World Series title, and first in nine years (that's 63 in Yankee-drought years), when general manager Brian Cashman was asked about people ... More »
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• Once Mocked in New York, Pavano Now Valued in Minnesota
• By Ed Price 10/10/2009 5:45 PM ET
• MINNEAPOLIS -- People in New York must think we're talking about some other guy named Carl Pavano. And maybe we are. The Carl Pavano who will start for the Twins on Sunday in Game 3 of their ... More »
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• A Few Yankees Have Something to Prove
• By Ed Price 9/28/2009 5:00 PM ET
• NEW YORK -- Can a team win the World Series with an ace sporting a 7.92 ERA and a cleanup hitter with one RBI in his past 59 at-bats in the playoffs? The Yankees hope so. For every Mariano Rivera, ... More »
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• Cashman: Time for Joba to 'Step It Up'
• By Pat Lackey 9/22/2009 11:12 PM ET
• As fall begins and the Yankees near their first American League East championship since (gasp!) 2006, it's time for the focus in the Bronx to turn to the playoffs. While discussing Joba Chamberlain ... More »
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• Cashman Thinks Pressure Is Affecting Mark Teixeira
• By Tom Fornelli 5/14/2009 1:07 PM ET
• Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira was one of the two big free agents available last winter along with CC Sabathia, and it wasn't exactly a huge surprise when he landed a $180 million deal with the ... More »
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• Jacoby Ellsbury Steals Show as Red Sox Sweep Yankees, Win 10th Straight
• By Andrew Johnson 4/27/2009 1:31 AM ET
• It might be a tough Monday morning in Yankeeland. It's not just that they were swept by the hated Red Sox in Fenway Park. It's that their all-world closer, Mariano Rivera, coughed up a two-run lead ... More »
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• New Look, Same Expectations in Bronx
• By Josh Alper 3/30/2009 7:30 PM ET
• FanHouse completes its 2009 MLB Preview with a look at the New York Yankees. When they signed A.J. Burnett, CC Sabathia and Mark Teixeira for a combined $423.5 million in December, the Yankees opened ... More »
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• Dewayne Wise Will Be Your Starting White Sox Centerfielder
• By Tom Fornelli 3/30/2009 2:50 PM ET
• The biggest competition in White Sox camp this spring was the same one it's been the last few seasons: the battle for center field and the leadoff spot. The three candidates were Brian Anderson, Jerry ... More »
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• Jeff Pearlman, Author of 'The Rocket That Fell to Earth,' Dishes on Roger Clemens
• By Andrew Johnson 3/24/2009 7:39 PM ET
• Jeff Pearlman is best known as the reporter who was on the receiving end of John Rocker's now infamous rant about taking the No. 7 train to Shea Stadium in New York City, but he hasn't stopped digging ... More »
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• 'Catchmen' Vital to Success
• By Ed Price 3/11/2009 4:15 PM ET
• Here's the catch: If Joe Mauer's back problems won't go away, the Twins are left without a No. 3 hitter. If Jorge Posada, can't come back from shoulder surgery to catch regularly, then he and Hideki ... More »
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• Yankees Stuck in Usual Storm, As America Laughs
• By Jay Mariotti 3/08/2009 11:00 PM ET
• Once, they were allowed to be the most pompous of sports franchises, worthy of a godlike voice in a cathedral stadium amid the mystique of championships and pinstripes. But these days, the New York ... More »
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• Daily Jolt: Bronx Bombers Still Boxed In By Steinbrenner Doctrine
• By Andrew Johnson 3/06/2009 8:30 AM ET
• The Daily Jolt is a dose of baseball reality every weekday morning. For a second there in the winter of 2007, it looked like the Yankees were truly reformed. They told Alex Rodriguez to get lost after ... More »
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• A-Rod Opts for Rehab Instead of Surgery
• By Andrew Johnson 3/05/2009 5:22 PM ET
• Alex Rodriguez will not have surgery on his injured right hip as reported earlier Thursday morning, at least not right away, according to Yankees general manager Brian Cashman. The embattled New York ... More »
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• Is Major League Baseball Too Damaged to Relight Romance?
• By Jay Mariotti 2/19/2009 1:25 AM ET
• Isn't it laughable how everyone has an opinion now? For years, baseball people were hush about steroids, protecting their dirty little secret as if the masses were morons when, in fact, a lot of these ... More »
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• Spin-Rod Does Nothing to Help Cause
• By Jay Mariotti 2/17/2009 10:30 PM ET
• I liked the verbal imagery, if not much else. Alex Rodriguez said he and his cousin -- why is the cousin always being thrown under the bus? -- knew they "weren't taking Tic Tacs'' when they were ... More »
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• Alex Rodriguez Press Conference: Revelations, Questions in Spanish
• By Will Brinson 2/17/2009 1:40 PM ET
• The New York Yankees assembled a legion of hungry media members Tuesday at their spring training facility for Alex Rodriguez's press conference. This press conference was, of course, designed to let ... More »
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• Daily Jolt: Beware the Roster Crunch
• By Andrew Johnson 2/13/2009 8:30 AM ET
• The Daily Jolt is a dose of baseball reality every weekday morning. The Nationals made it official Thursday, inking slugger Adam Dunn to a two-year, $20 million deal and introducing him in Washington. ... More »
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• Andy Pettitte Re-Signs With Yankees
• By Matt Snyder 1/26/2009 3:25 PM ET
• Despite all of the ongoing drama between Andy Pettitte and the New York Yankees this offseason -- mostly due to Pettitte's insistence that he's worth more than $10 million per season at this stage in ... More »
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• The Dugout: HisTorre
• By B. Thompson Stroud 1/25/2009 5:40 PM ET
• In what amounts to pretty much the only interesting sports story of the day, Joe Torre has taken it upon himself to write a tell-all book dismissing his former ballclub like so much prostate cancer. ... More »
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