HAPPY PITCHERS AND CATCHERS WEEK EVERYBODY! Can you believe it is here? Time to thaw out and get ready, Spring Training games are right around the corner. Baseball is back!
Quite a bit to cover in the New York Yankees Universe, so sit back and catch up in your weekly Yankees quick hits.
Keep reading for news and notes from the past weekend in Yankees land!
Get ready Tampa. The New York Yankees are en route. At least the team equipment is. And a few short days later, pitchers and catchers will be at The Boss prepping for another postseason run.
As usual, let’s take a look at some news and nuggets from around the Yankees Universe.
Rough week for New York Yankees fans. They lost one of the exciting pieces of their youth movement for the 2016 season. It is a huge blow, but not as big for 2016 as it may be for the future.
I have seen this idea pop up a few times on several sites and New York newspapers over the past few weeks. Tim Lincecum is leaving the San Francisco Giants and will hit the free agent market. I thought it was a dead story, the idea of having The Freak in the Bronx, but it won’t go away.
So… should the New York Yankees give Lincecum a shot?
Read on to see if Tim Lincecum is a good fit for the Yankees
It’s so close you can smell the spring air. Pitchers and catchers report in just a few short weeks and all will be right in the world. There are still few loose ends as the Yanks get ready to head to Tampa, but they are doing the best to wrap it all up.
There are a mere three football games left in the NFL season which means one thing. We are under the 30 day mark to pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training. You can’t see it, but I am doing a happy dance as I type.
That being said, let’s take a look at some rumblings from the Yankees Universe.
Read more for some thoughts on all things Yankees from the past week!
The NCAA National Championship is done, and man what a game that was, huh? The NFL is winding down and my Houston Texans are out of it, although it seemed like they were never really in it. Anyway, it’s time to start refocusing our attention to the world of baseball.
The New York Yankees still have a few question marks heading into 2016, but a few have been answered over the past 24 hours.
We all know by now that the New York Yankees went out and traded for Aroldis Chapman yesterday. It was a peculiar trade on a few levels, but one thing is for certain. The Internet, both Yankees fans and non-Yankees fans is abuzz with the good, the bad, and the ugly of this trade.
The MLB Winter Meetings came to an end and two of the pieces many expected the New York Yankees to trade are still on the roster. Last year’s Mariano Rivera Award winner — that’s for the best reliever people — Andrew Miller is still in pinstripes and so is Brett Gardner.
I don’t mind that both are still in the Bronx. I understand that the asking price was high on purpose, so the fact that they weren’t traded for the sake of being trade — like Justin Wilson seemingly was — I also understand.
What I don’t understand is the outcry on social media by Yankees fans about Brett Gardner leaving. Just like I didn’t understand when the whole world wept that the Yankees were “lunatics” to let David Robertson walk. Let me explain.
Christmas Day, 1989. 26-years ago the wild ride that was the life of Billy Martin came to end in a deadly car accident. The New York Yankees highly volatile skipper — known more for his off the field antics than many of his accomplishments on the diamond — saw his life end at the age of 61 well before it should have.
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