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It remains to be seen whether this will be an advantage for the Yankees in pursuit of highly-touted Cuban pitcher Aroldis Chapman, but Chapman has fired his original agency, Athletes Premier International, and signed with veteran agents Alan and Randy Hendricks, stunning his former reps.
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Kendry Morales
The Yankees added seven players to their 40-man roster today, protecting them from being selected in the Rule 5 Draft: RHPs Hector Noesi, Ivan Nova and Romulo Sanchez, infielders Reegie Corona, Eduardo Nunez and Kevin Russo and outfielder Austin Jackson.
Here's a quick rundown of the group: ...
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Now that the Knicks have apparently decided not to sign Allen Iverson, it seems like they're looking for some positive PR.
Enter Joe Girardi.
The Yankees manager was named as the winner of the Knicks' Sweetwater Clifton "City Spirit" Award for the month of November. The award, named in ...
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Joe Girardi
If you’ve never been to the Baseball Hall of Fame, now is the perfect time.
That’s because the Hall has added artifacts from the Yankees’ World Series win to its “Autumn Glory” exhibit in Cooperstown.
Among the items donated by the Yankees:
* Hideki ...
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Andy Pettitte
Mariano Rivera
Derek Jeter
It’s time for the third annual “Pinstriped Prognosticator Challenge” here at Blogging the Bombers, where you folks try to predict where six notable free agents will land this winter. This year’s prize? The Major League Baseball All-Century Team DVD!
Thanks to our good ...
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Matt Holliday
With free agency set to kick off at 12:01 tonight, the baseball world will wait to see where players such as John Lackey, Matt Holliday and Jason Bay land in the coming weeks.
But things could get ugly in baseball in the very near future. Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports wrote a very interesting ...
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John Lackey
Matt Holliday
Jason Bay
Ken Rosenthal
Fox Sports
Mike Scioscia of the Angels won his second American League Manager of the Year award, beating out Twins skipper Ron Gardenhire. Scioscia received 15 of the 28 first-place votes, while Gardenhire got six. Yankees manager Joe Girardi was listed first on four ballots, finishing third.
Mike ...
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Mike Scioscia
Ron Gardenhire
Joe Girardi
Minnesota Twins
The BBWAA awards season continues today with the Manager of the Year awards in both the American and National League, and while Colorado's Jim Tracy figures to be a runaway winner in the NL, the AL should be a very interesting race.
Despite the fact that the Yankees led the majors with 103 ...
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New York Yankees
Joe Girardi
Ron Gardenhire
Mike Scioscia
Baseball America posted the complete list of this winter's minor-league free agents (thanks to Peter Abraham at the Boston Globe for posting this on the excellent Extra Bases blog), so here are the 17 players in the Yankees system that can sign wherever they wish in the next couple months:
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Cody Ransom
Humberto Sanchez
Chris Stewart
Freddy Guzman
Joba Chamberlain has one wish for this holiday season: a Yankees 2010 rotation that includes Andy Pettitte.
Chamberlain spoke to a few reporters yesterday at Madison Square Garden, as he attended the New Yorkers For Children’s “Wrap and Rap” event, helping wrap holiday ...
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Andy Pettitte
Joba Chamberlain
New York Yankees
Zack Greinke ran away with the American League Cy Young Award today, picking up 25 of the 28 first-place votes.
Mine was not one of them.
I listed Felix Hernandez first on my ballot, and Greinke second, though the decision was a very difficult one for me. During the final month of the ...
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New York Yankees
Cy Young
Felix Hernandez
Zack Greinke
I'm back in the swing of things following a weekend away with my family, just in time for the bulk of the BBWAA awards to be handed out.
Congrats to Oakland's Andrew Bailey and Florida's Chris Coghlan, who took home Rookie of the Year honors on Monday. I don't get all that excited for the ...
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Cy Young
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C.C. Sabathia
Joe Girardi will be honored as the March of Dimes Sportsman of the Year in two weeks, joining Sportswoman of the Year Venus Williams at the March of Dimes New York Division's 26th Annual Sports Luncheon on Wednesday, December 2 at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan.
Each year, March of Dimes ...
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Joe Torre
Mickey Mantle
Caught up briefly with former Yankee coach Don Zimmer Friday at the dinner for Joe Torre’s Safe at Home Foundation and Zim had the same old twinkle in his eye as he recounted that he recently signed his 62nd baseball contract. Zim will return to the Rays as an advisor next season.
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Joe Girardi
Philadelphia Phillies
The MLBPA released the list of 210 players eligible for arbitration, though only five of them belong to the Yankees, who must decide by December 12 whether to offer them arbitration or non-tender them. Here’s a quick rundown:
Chien-Ming Wang: This figures to be an easy decision for the ...
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Chien-Ming Wang
The Yankees will hold their organizational meetings early next week, and from the sounds of things, they’ll have plenty to talk about - most of it involving the potential trade market.
Teams all around the majors are putting some of their best players on the block, looking to slash ...
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Roy Halladay
The general managers meetings have come and gone and we basically don’t know any more about what the Yankees will look like in 2010 than we did before they started.
That’s not surprising. Until the Yankees hold their organizational meetings, nothing is going to happen with Johnny ...
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New York Yankees
Every year at the general managers meetings and at the winter meetings, Scott Boras makes his customary trip through the lobby, stopping to answer reporters’ questions for about 30 minutes.
Boras always has a few new lines to use, many of which are very creative. My favorite one on ...
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Johnny Damon
Jorge Posada
Scott Boras
Another relatively news-free day here in Chicago, where the general managers met for about four hours to discuss a range of topics from the draft to the Arizona Fall League to instant replay.
It seems that nothing actually will change on any of those fronts, particularly replay, as the GMs ...
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Brian Cashman
Everyone expected Mark Teixeira to capture the American League Gold Glove at first base this season, but for all the talk of Derek Jeter's decline at shortstop, not many expected the captain to do the same.
Yet when the Rawlings Gold Glove Awards were announced, both Teixeira and Jeter were ...
