The Sommer Frieze

Ok, baseball talk. Let’s look at what could transpire for various Yankees in 2010:
Posada. 243 HR. Granted 115 behind Yogi. But 8th on the all-time Yankees list. #251 will pass Nettles on that list.  36 more RBI for 1000 in his career. 12 hits for 1500.
Jeter. 2747 hits. He will just add to his Yankee team record […]

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I don’t know the supposedly “hard and fast” number that the Steinbrenners gave to Cashman—whether it was to lop the budget $15M, $20M or whatever.
But it is coming out how far apart JD (who confirms his Yankee years are over…but never say never again…however as of now) and the Yanks were.
JD and his agent, Boras, […]

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There are rumors going that the Yanks could be interested in Nick Johnson to fill the DH spot. In fact, LoHud’s Chad Jennings says that the NY Post’s George King states that the signing of Johnson could be announced tomorrow. The NY Post states that industry sources indicate that Damon “isn’t looking to take a […]

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Every year, the expectations are that the Yankees will make a big splash. Often you hear fans say, “oh the Yankees will just go out and buy so and so.”
Yes, the Yankees have the money. But that doesn’t mean that you just associate the Yankees with every top free agent out there.
There is need and market…not to […]

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As we head into the weekend, what do we see over the past couple of days?
The Rose Bowl is set. Oregon (who beat Oregon St. in what basically was the Pac-10 title game) vs. Ohio St.
The Phils got a 3B. 34 year old Placido Polanco is going back to Philly, where he spent part of […]

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The AL ROY goes to Andrew Bailey of the A’s, who went 6-3, 1.84 and 26 saves. Finishing 2nd was Elvis Andrus of the Rangers, who went .267-6-40, 33 SB, OPS+ 82.
In the NL, there will be some disappointed fans near where I live in Eastern PA. The NL ROY goes to the Marlins’ OF Chris Coghlan, who […]

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Watching the parade. I still believe that although the WS MVP went to Matsui that the real MVP is Mo. Every closer pissed away a game this postseason—except for Mo. Papelbon, Street, Broxton, Lidge, Nathan, Fuentes, Franklin…the one solid rock was who else…Rivera, who had a 2009 postseason ERA of 0.56 and whose overall postseason record […]

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I watched the game with friends. It’s now past midnight, I work tomorrow and will have to work a full day with maybe six hours of sleep….
and yes, we popped open some champagne.
…and yes, more will be flowing this weekend.
Full recap later. Sometime tomorrow.
In short, Hideki Matsui drove in six runs to tie Bobby Richardson’s […]

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You knew it was going to happen. You felt it. You just wondered when.
After blowing 11 saves in the regular season, you just wondered when Brad Lidge would blow one in the postseason. With a long rest before Game 1 of the World Series and not having been used in the first three games, the […]

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YANKEES
Derek Jeter SS
Johnny Damon LF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Jorge Posada C
Robinson Cano 2B
Nick Swisher RF
Melky Cabrera CF
Andy Pettitte P
Pitching: LHP Andy Pettitte (2-0, 2.37 postseason ERA)
Girardi named CC the starter for Game 4. Three days rest. CC vs. Blanton.
In the 4th, 3-2 Phils. Andy has been two different pitchers tonight, owning the lefties (Howard struck […]

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