Is there light at the end of this tunnel?
soxandpinstripes.com 6/25/2009 — Tonight was a step in the right direction for a Yankees' team in desperate need of offensive production and wins. They finished the game with eight runs and won by four so in the box score everything will look dandy in a game where Joba Chamberlain looked more like the future ace than the young ...

A tale of two pitchers
riveraveblues.com 7/1/2009 — On April 26, 2007, the Yankees found themselves without a starting pitcher, and so a few months — or possibly a year — ahead of schedule, they handed the ball over to a 20-year-old right-hander named Phil Hughes . A few months later, on August 7, ...

Hughes Becoming a Weapon Out of the Pen
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 6/22/2009 — From Anothony DiComo : And according to Girardi, he can. For the Yankees, perhaps the brightest spot in this weekend's series loss to the Marlins was Hughes, who so impressed his manager with a perfect inning of relief Saturday that Girardi was prepared to use Hughes out of the 'pen again the ...

Yanks' Grit it Out Against Mariners (postgame notes 30 June 2009)
puristbleedspinstripes.com 7/1/2009 — Given that Mariano Rivera threw out tonight's ceremonial first pitch and that Joba Chamberlain was starting, it is perhaps not surprising that in the end it came down to the bullpen. Joba Chamberlain started, and while he wasn't horrible in any sense of the word, he also wasn't very good, or ...

Happy 4th!
boogiedownbaseball.blogspot.com 7/4/2009 — Sorry for not posting after yesterday's game. My friend Joe and I took a little road trip to Erie, PA to check out the Trenton Thunder. They crushed the Seawolves 10-1. I also got Jesus Montero's autograph. Good times. Yesterday's game in a nutshell: A.J. was again the man. Hughes is in, ...

Hughes Getting Very Comfortable in the Pen
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 7/1/2009 — Here's a quote from Hughes about his new role, via Peter Abraham : "I feel like I have more control, my stuff plays up a little bit," Hughes said. "It feels like a good fit for me. Who's to say what the future will be? Maybe this is what I do for the rest of my career." Still, Hughes sees the ...

Around the Yankee Universe: Phil Hughes edition
pinstripealley.com 6/30/2009 — More photos » by Tony Dejak - AP Phil Hughes Browse more photos » OK, so when do you guys start screaming that Phil Hughes should be the 8th inning guy? or ... gulp! ... ...

How Reactivating Chien Ming Wang Messed With Phil Hughes
puristbleedspinstripes.com 7/13/2009 — Recently, I've been seeing a lot of posts suggesting that to solve the rotation problems, the Yankees should move Phil Hughes back from the bullpen to the rotation. On the surface, it's hard to disagree with this. As a starter, Hughes this season was showing improvement outside of one disastrous ...

Yankees' trends, thoughts, and a Joba update.
soxandpinstripes.com 6/10/2009 — Above all, yesterday had to be the worst Yankees' game all season where the opponent didn't crack double digits. It's not often you see the offense shut down like that and you have to hope it won't set a chain reaction. My gut feeling is it won't, this offense is too deep with too many options ...

Phil Hughes Time Has Come
waswatching.com 7/1/2009 — Some thoughts on Phil Hughes, working out of the bullpen, via Peter Abraham today - Armed with the knowledge that he will be in the game for only an inning or two, [Phil] Hughes is throwing his fastball as hard as he did when he first came to the ...

Why the Yankees' Recent Hot Streak Is a Reason to Get Excited — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/29/2009
Though the Yankees' five game winning streak has come against an offensively-challenged Atlanta team and a hapless and banged-up bunch of Mets, a number of occurrences over the past week should give Yankee fans like myself reasons to be encouraged as ...

Rivera adds to legacy with 500th save (AP) — Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 6/29/2009
Mariano Rivera has seen all the histrionics by some closers. It's fine, he said, because it's part of their personalities. Rivera has his own way of celebrating a big save for the Yankees. "I go home," he said. "Simple as that. As quick ...

Chien-Ming Wang, Phil Hughes, Mariano Rivera Are Keys to Yankees Championship — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/30/2009
In last night’s 2009 Subway Series finale at Citi Field in Queens, the New York Yankees defeated the New York Metropolitans, 4-2, to capture five out of the six games played between the cross-town rivals this year.   Erstwhile ace ...

Looking within pays off with Yankees' relief corps — Newsday.com - Yankees 6/30/2009
For Mariano Rivera to record his 500th save Sunday night, the guys ahead of him had to do their jobs.

Fun for the Family: Yankee Coloring Book a Smashing Good Time — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/29/2009
When I was a little kid, coloring books were still really popular. Nowadays, with the spread of the Internet and new forms of electronic entertainment, it seems like books are taking a real hit. Sad to think that, 20 years ago, a nice new book could ...