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Ranking the Yankees, 1-20
Ranking the Yankees, 1-20
The Hot Stove season has been uneventful so far and today could be more of the same. But now that my parents, sister and niece have left NYC, I have some blogging time on my hands. (Just an aside, while standing on Broadway and 39th Street for five hours on Nov. 27 is a good way to get ...
The King Steps Down: George Steinbrenner Passes Control of Yankees to Son, Hal
The King Steps Down: George Steinbrenner Passes Control of Yankees to Son, Hal
bizofbaseball.com — The new King? Hal Steinbrenner takes over as the Principle Owner of the New York Yankees today.... The end of one of the most successful and tumultuous ownership eras in Major League Baseball history ended today when the George Steinbrenner passed control of the New York Yankees to his son, ... (more) The King Steps Down: George Steinbrenner Passes Control ...
King George
joeposnanski.com — Every city in the country, I suppose, has its own relationship with New York City — you... know, much the same way that every college basketball team in the old ACC had a rivalry with North Carolina. The City is just omnipresent in American ... (more) King George

Bloomberg Administration and Yankees Squabble Over Suite Use
Bloomberg Administration and Yankees Squabble Over Suite Use
bizofbaseball.com — The Bloomberg administration and the Yankees are squabbling over the use of a luxury suite, such as... this rendering shows, in the Yankees' new $1.3 billion stadium set to open in 2009. (Source: HOK) A series of emails shows that the Bloomberg administration and the New York Yankees have ... (more) Bloomberg Administration and Yankees Squabble Over Suite Use
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Yanks High Stakes Game
BASEBALL HOT CORNER — ... , and it's clear that he views Sabathia as the top solution for his team." There is no relief in sight: "Cashman is smart enough not to have allowed a replacement to emerge."--(LoHud) ...

Saturday morning musings: Important Yankees
River Avenue Blues — ... In a moment of Frigid Stove downtime over Thanksgiving, Peter Abraham offered up his thought-provoking list of the top 20 most important Yankees. He starts with Joba, ends with Dave Eiland and touches everyone in between. In a few days, we’re going to have a RAB round table about these picks and offer up our own. In the meantime, what’s your take? Is PeteAbe’s list accurate? Do you disagree? I do, but I’ll save that for another day. ...

$140 million for Sabathia is risky... So what?
New York Yankees Fan Blog — ... . In other news... Pete Abraham takes an interesting stab at ranking the 20 most important people in the Yankees organization (not necessarily players). The Post 's Jonathan Lehman gives us a few ...

Odds And Ends: Tazawa, Hoffman, Halladay
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — ... and Braves. The Padres recently offered to talk with Trevor Hoffman, but he hasn't responded. Robert MacLeod talked to Blue Jays insiders who believe trading ace Roy Halladay would send "the wrong signal" to fans since the Jays want to compete in 2009. Rob Neyer wonders how C.C. Sabathia's weight will affect his performance going forward. Joba Chamberlain tops Peter Abraham's list of the 20 most important people to the Yankees organization. Peter ...

The 20 Most-Important Phillies
Phillies Nation — ... I stole this idea from Peter Abraham, who is unequivocally the best Yankees beat writer (and, ironically, once worked at the newspaper I’m currently at). He wrote about the 20 most important Yankees at this very moment, including any person on the payroll (including scouts, coaches, front office personnel, etc.). I’ll do the same for the Phillies. Here are my 20 most important people in the Phillies organization today: ...

Mike’s 20 Most Important Yankees
River Avenue Blues — Way back in November PeteAbe posted his list of the twenty most important Yankees, and Ben said we’d follow that up by posting our own list shortly thereafter. Well, four months later seems like as good a time as any to roll out our lists. That’s right, lists. I’m going to present my list of the twenty most important people in the organization today, and tomorrow Joe’s going to follow up with his version. Ben will post his list on Wednesday, then we’ll wrap this whole thing up on Thursday, podcast-style. This list ...

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So far the Yankees have not heard back from CC Sabathia and have not made formal offers to either Derek Lowe or AJ Burnett , but they have made calls to Kansas City to discuss pitcher Zack Greinke . The 25-year-old came with great ...
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Daily News writer Anthony McCarron had an article in today’s paper that is getting a lot of attention about the drawbacks of signing a pitcher to a big contract. “Long-term contracts for pitchers are generally considered risky by ...
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