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Mets, Yanks prospects blossom down South
BEATING THE BUSHES For systems light on truly intriguing position-player talent, it’s a wonder the Mets and Yankees each mined a potential starter from the same swath of the Rocky Mountains in the...
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Yankees need Kuroda to pitch like an ace in order to reach the playoffs
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Maybe you can brush off a brutal outing from the ace in May, June or July and rationalize Hall of Famers get spanked. Eventually, though, the stud is asked and paid to win a...
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Father Knows Best: Romine Has Swing Coach Independent of Yankees
A pop-up to the first baseman? He is collapsing his back side. Ground ball to short? He is dropping his hands. Most of the time, Kevin Romine watches Austin’s games on television or on the computer,...
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It’s getting close to miracle time
Follow Ken on TwitterBlog: Baseball Insider TORONTO — This simply won’t work. You can’t produce a game like this, a multi-platform meltdown, when you’ve given yourself such little room for error....
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Yankees at death’s door on eve of crucial homestand
The DOA Yankees will spend September paying homage to the great Mariano Rivera and having their postseason dreams stuffed into pinstriped coffins. The soon-to-be dethroned defending AL East champions...
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Yankees 2, Orioles 0: A Tense Moment in the 9th, but Nova Shuts Out Orioles
Yankees Manager Joe Girardi grew worried because, after all, Davis leads the majors with 47 home runs. Catcher Chris Stewart thought the ball would stay in the park, but at Yankee Stadium, with a...
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One awful inning derails sweep against Orioles
After firing six shutout innings yesterday, Andy Pettitte surrendered back-to-back singles to start the seventh. He held a three-run lead, with Matt Wieters coming to the plate. Pettitte had already...
View ArticleCaptain can’t get out of rut
Derek Jeter is engulfed in an ugly slump. Jeter went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts in yesterday’s 7-3 loss to the Orioles in The Bronx, and the captain is now hitless in his last 14 at-bats with six...
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Relievers fall on sword after seventh-inning implosion
All season, the Yankees bullpen has been a source of strength and confidence. Over the past two weeks, when the Yankees needed it most as they try to stay in the AL wild-card race, it was even more....
View ArticleMurphy’s 3 HRs not enough for Yankees’ Double-A team
Thursday night’s most digit-packed boxscore came out of Erie, where Trenton — the Yankees’ Double-A affiliate — opened a road trip with a 15-14 loss. Catcher J.R. Murphy had three of Trenton’s six...
View ArticleMurphy’s 3 HRs not enough for Yankees’ Double-A team
Thursday night’s most digit-packed boxscore came out of Erie, where Trenton — the Yankees’ Double-A affiliate — opened a road trip with a 15-14 loss. Catcher J.R. Murphy had three of Trenton’s six...
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Yankees’ farm system has final month to change low opinion
Follow Ken on TwitterBlog: Baseball Insider Your updated playoff seeds: AL: Boston (1) vs. winner of Oakland (WC1) and Tampa Bay (WC2), Detroit (2) vs. Texas (3) NL: Atlanta (1) vs. winner of St....
View ArticleBilly Ripkin: Will be ‘Awfully hard’ for Yankees to make playoffs
MLB Network analyst Billy Ripken talks Yankees’ age, Alex Rodriguez and who the favorite is in the American League with The Post’s Justin Terranova. Q: Do you think the Yankees have enough left to...
View ArticleBeating the Bushes: Yankees, Mets minor league awards
With the minor league playoffs bringing an anti-climactic close to a season on the farm, it’s time to take a look back. It was a mostly disappointing campaign for the Yankees system, deeply invested...
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Yankees 4, Red Sox 3: Rivera Blows Save, But Suzuki Rescues Win and Yanks’ Hopes
But with the Yankees on the brink of being swept in a four-game series by the Boston Red Sox, and with a depleted bullpen, Manager Joe Girardi had little choice but to entrust the game, and perhaps a...
View ArticleNY’s teams singing the Christmas blues
“Happy Xmas (Season’s Over)” [“Happy Xmas (War is Over)] (As sung by the Jets and Giants) So this is Christmas And Eli is done The offense ‘pathetic’ The defense overrun And so this is Christmas For...
View ArticleSource: Grant Balfour on Yankees’ radar
According to industry sources, the Yankees have shown some interest in closer Grant Balfour, whose two-year deal with the Orioles disintegrated. Balfour has converted 62 of 67 save opportunities the...
View ArticleYankees not writing many checks with pen
Has the back end of the bullpen moved to the top of the Yankees’ to-do list? While the Bombers – and the rest of Major League Baseball – wait to see if Japanese ace Masahiro Tanaka will be posted, the...
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Feinsand: Yanks must go all in on Tanaka or lose arms race
It’s time for the Yankees to stop being international spectators. The Bombers have watched from the sidelines in recent years as teams gambled on Aroldis Chapman, Yoenis Cespedes and Yu Darvish,...
View ArticleYankees reach out to Tanaka’s agent, but no offer yet
The race has begun in the Masahiro Tanaka sweepstakes — with the Yankees among several teams who have been in touch with the Japanese ace righthander’s agent, Casey Close — but the Bombers are not...
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