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Beef! We've Got Yankees-Blue Jays Beef!
The Blue Jays appear comfortably in the playoffs, and the Yankees solidly out, so why not devote a late September divisional game almost entirely to beefing, and the settling of said beefs, and to setting up beefs to come?...

Dellin Betances Chose A Bad Time To Unravel
There are few safer bets for a bullpen than Dellin Betances—which makes sense, seeing as how he strikes out more than 40 percent of the batters he faces. So when the Yankees handed Betances a 5-2 lead in the ninth inning of Thursday’s game against the Red Sox, a win seemed all but guaranteed....

Yasiel Puig Tosses Ball To Fan, Knocks Her Tooth Out
When it comes to hazards you need to look out for at a baseball game, a player tossing you a souvenir ball ranks several dozen places behind things like “watch out for foul balls” and “try not to get puked on.” And yet, one Dodgers fan managed to get herself extremely fucked up during what should ha...

The Yankees Are Not Dead
The Yankees are, impressively and unexpectedly, still relevant. Despite trading away or easing into retirement much of their high-priced veteran talent, New York has hung around. Here we are on Sept. 7, there’s a crispness to the air, the kids are heading back to school—and the Yankees are 4.5 games...

What's Going On With Blake Rutherford?
Saturday night, the Yankees’ rookie league affiliate, the Pulaski Yankees, tweeted rather cryptically about Blake Rutherford, the team’s first-round pick in this year’s MLB draft. Less than two hours later, they deleted the tweet, elevating the cryptic factor....

Gary Sanchez Is More Or Less Babe Ruth Right Now
Unless you’re into sweet sweet schadenfreude, there haven’t been many reasons to watch the Yankees this year. But the last few weeks have been a little different, courtesy of rookie catcher Gary Sanchez and the 2004 Barry Bonds-esque stat line he’s put up. ...

What, Like You've Never Taken A Headfirst Dive Into The Yankees' Dugout?
Hey, what are you looking at, man?...

Aw Man, The Yankees Are Going To Be Very Good Very Soon
Gary Sanchez has had a start to his MLB career right up there with those of Yankees, uh, legends, like Shane Spencer and Kevin Maas and Shelley Duncan. With two more dang dingers last night in New York’s 7-5 loss in Seattle, the 23-year-old catcher now has eight home runs in his first 19 games—a fra...

Alex Rodriguez Gets No Love From Joe Girardi, Helps The Yankees Win Anyway
After Alex Rodriguez’s Sunday announcement that he would retire following Friday’s game, Yankees manager Joe Girardi made it sound like Rodriguez would get to go out on at least some of his terms—that is, swinging. Except Girardi didn’t play Rodriguez on Sunday. Or on Tuesday. Or start him last nigh...

Alex Rodriguez Was Big Enough To Take All The Blame
It’s obvious where this begins: Thirteen years ago, at baseball’s annual winter meetings, the entire story was Alex Rodriguez and when and where he would be going. The Texas Rangers, who’d averaged 90 losses in three seasons with Rodriguez at shortstop, had made clear that they wanted out from under...

Sobbing A-Rod Announces The Yankees Are Ending His Career<em></em><em></em>
The New York Yankees called a press conference this morning to announce that Alex Rodriguez’s career as a Yankee will end next week. His final game will be on Friday against the Rays, after which the Yankees will release him, and he will retire and become a “special advisor and instructor” to the cl...

This Appreciation Of Mark Teixeira Didn't Come Easily
Mark Teixeira is going to announce his retirement this afternoon, effective at the end of this season. I’m the Yankees fan on staff, so when the news came out, Ley asked me what my favorite Tex moment was. I was at a loss....

A-Rod's Doing Just Fine, It Seems
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Let Alex Rodriguez Hit, Dammit
Are you ready for the end of Alex Rodriguez’s tumultuous tenure with the New York Yankees? According to the New York Daily News, it might be coming sooner than you think....

John McEnroe Brought The Heat
The best first pitch of 2016 does not belong to a 92-year-old World War II veteran, Snoop Dogg, or, uh, whoever these people are. No, the honor goes to John McEnroe, who smoked this fastball in to open this evening’s Mets-Yankees game....

New York's Other Baseball Team Sends Andrew Miller Off To Cleveland
Just a couple of weeks ago, New York Yankees president/Donald Trump enthusiast Randy Levine asserted that “The Yankees have never been quitters.” Dubious as this claim was, if taken at face value it would suggest that under this true rich asshole the Yankees have reached an unprecedented low point, ...

Will The Yankees Get Out Of Their Own Way And Be Sellers?
The New York Yankees are a mediocre baseball team that also happens to employ a plethora of talented players that more competitive teams would gladly pay a decent price to acquire. If the Yankees were any other team, the path forward would be quite clear: Have a fire sale at the deadline, restock th...

CC Sabathia Felled By Mighty Pitching Mound
While throwing against the Orioles this afternoon, Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia caught his cleat in the dirt and took a little tumble. The fall resulted in a balk and advanced Chris Davis to second base....

Aroldis Chapman Threw Some Pitches Hard As Hell
We already know that Aroldis Chapman can throw harder than anyone in the history of baseball—unless you buy that story about Bob Feller, who was badass, throwing a pitch 107 mph one time—but the Yankees’ closer was throwing particularly hard last night....