blogs.nypost.com - 12/15/2008
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Two of pieces of personal housekeeping before we get to 3 UP: 1. I will be co-hosting the 3-6 p.m. show all this week on XM 175, MLB Home Plate. If you get a chance give a listen sometime...
nydailynews.com - 12/17/2008
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nydailynews.com —
Source sees Yankees' pursuit of Manny Ramirez as
front office splits BY MARK FEINSAND DAILY NEWS SPORTS...
WRITER Tuesday, December 16th 2008, 9:20 PM Are the Yankees preparing to give Manny Ramirez a happy homecoming? The pride of Washington Heights ...
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Source sees Yankees' pursuit of Manny Ramirez as ...
bats.blogs.nytimes.com - 12/16/2008
fannation.com - 12/16/2008
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fannation.com —
Before he can get a new contract, Manny
Ramirez may have to wait for Mark Teixeira to...
sign first. Photo: Icon SMI The Manny Market appears to depend on the Teixeira Sweepstakes. The Yankees are in on the Mark Teixeira sweepstakes but ...
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Behind in Teixeira Derby, Yanks could target Manny
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Sherman: THE CASE AGAINST MIKE CAMERON (RR)
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Sherman: THE CASE AGAINST MIKE CAMERON (RR) and... THE CASE AGAINST GARDNER . The Yankees would essentially see Swisher and Cameron as replacements for Jason Giambi and Bobby Abreu. That is obviously a huge upgrade defensively. But is it enough to cover for how much better the Giambi/Abreu combo is on offense? What I would worry about if I were the Yanks is if Swisher and Cameron are the kind of guys who feast on bad pitching, but will be total non-entities against good pitching and will kill a lot of runner-on-third, less-than-two-outs situations with strikeouts. ...
Sherman: New Yanks To Be King Of K’s?
WasWatching.com —
Via Joel Sherman’s blog -
The Yankees would essentially see [Nick] Swisher and [Mike] Cameron as replacements for Jason Giambi and Bobby Abreu. That is obviously a huge upgrade defensively. But is it enough to cover for how much better the Giambi/Abreu combo is on offense? What I would worry about if I were the Yanks is if Swisher and Cameron are the kind of guys who feast on bad pitching, but will be total non-entities against good pitching and will kill a lot of runner-on-third, less-than-two-outs situations with strikeouts.
Abreu struck ...
Maybe Mark Teixeira isn't coming to New York...
New York Yankees Fan Blog —
... than Manny, but doubts the team would want to take on another $150+ million commitment: The talk about the Yankees still being in on Mark Teixeira or Manny Ramirez -- nothing would surprise me, but it doesn't seem likely. ... I'm just not sure I envision them making yet another $150-million+ investment in Teixeira. Ramirez, maybe, as the bidding's not yet out of hand there (actually it's almost nonexistent). Just to pile on a bit, here is Joel Sherman : Count me as a non-believer that the Yanks are really going after Mark Teixeira and Manny Ramirez. I think they like to act ...
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One player can mean all the difference —
Major League Baseball News 12/15/2008
The notion of the one-step fix persists in the game despite so many unsuccessful attempts to execute it. But the concept lives within every GM who knows how the arrival of Roger Maris revitalized the Yankees in 1960, how Kirk Gibson introduced ...
