Is it Too Soon for the Yankees to Panic?
nyyankeesrumors.com 6/24/2009 — The Yankees have been playing sub-par baseball lately, and while they have plenty of time to bounce back, there are three other teams in the AL East posing some serious threats. First and foremost, the Red Sox are now five games ahead in the standings, and while that’s certainly not an ...

Not a Pretty Win, But Yanks Take Their 6th In A Row
soxandpinstripes.com 7/1/2009 — Another game, another win for the Yankees. Doesn't it seem like forever ago that the Yanks were losing some awful games to the Nationals and Marlins? Well after looking so bad just a little over a week ago, the Yankees have now turned out a 6 game winning streak and are back to within 2.5 games ...

What to do with the fifth starter spot?
riveraveblues.com 7/6/2009 — Once Chien-Ming Wang left yesterday’s game in the sixth after pointing to his shoulder, this post was inevitable. The Yanks will have a few decisions to make in the next few days. They’ll need a spot starter this Thursday in Minnesota, ...

All the pieces could be coming together
soxandpinstripes.com 6/29/2009 — Often times on this site we have talked about how Baseball has many twists and turns throughout the span of a 162 game season. It's impossible to know anything is for certain. The majority of predictions we make in the preseason will look foolish by November if we only went back and checked up ...

Melky & A-Rod’s late innings heroics lead Yanks past Mariners
nyyankeesrumors.com 7/1/2009 — Joba Chamberlain turned in another sub par outing today. He went 5.1 innings, allowing 3 earned runs and struck out 4 batters. Joba is just not pitching effectively right now, and he can’t go deep into games because he is always nibbling on the corners of the strike zone. ...

Yanks Win Despite Poor Performance From Joba
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 7/6/2009 — (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E TOR 0 0  ...

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 ...

Yanks Win a Sloppy One
soxandpinstripes.com 7/6/2009 — Let me start by saying, a win is a win. I could not care less how sloppy the game was. And truth be told, the Yankees weren't sloppy, Joba was. I was at the game yesterday (sitting in section 208), and it was clear from the start that Joba did not have it, again. He started off the game with a ...

It Wasn't Pretty, But Yanks Take Opener 8-5
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 7/1/2009 — (REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E SEA 0 0  ...

Getting up to speed with Joba Chamberlain
riveraveblues.com 7/3/2009 — The Pitch F/X chart of Joba’s fastball velocity over time. (Click to enlarge in a new window) As Joba Chamberlain skyrocketed his way through the Yankee organization as a starter, the book on him was velocity. During his 2006 appearance ...

Red Sox Pitching Grades are Solid Despite Month End Meltdown — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/2/2009
Had Tuesday night's 11-10 implosion against the last place Baltimore Orioles happened in July instead of in June, the Boston Red Sox pitching staff would have earned Magna Cum Laude for the month. After weathering a 71 minute rain delay and ...

Red Sox LF Bay to become US citizen (AP) — Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 7/2/2009
Red Sox left fielder Jason Bay has long played America's pastime and will now be able to call himself an American. The 30-year-old player from Canada becomes a U.S. citizen Thursday afternoon in a ceremony at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall. Bay is ...

Jason Bay to become US citizen — Red Sox & MLB - BostonHerald.com 7/2/2009
BOSTON - Red Sox left fielder Jason Bay has long played America's pastime and will soon be able to call himself an American. The 30-year-old from Canada becomes a...

Red Sox's Jason Bay to become US citizen — Boston.com -- Baseball News 7/2/2009
Red Sox left fielder Jason Bay has long played America's pastime and will now be able to call himself an American.

Can-Am League Making Eric Gagne Look Like Gag-Me — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/2/2009
Even in the Can-Am League, the numbers for former Dodger great Eric Gagne keep getting worse. After posting a 6.75 ERA for the Red Sox and a 5.44 ERA for the Brewers last season, Gagne's career appeared to be on life support. Gagne, who at one time ...