Today’s post is brought you by the number 35 and the letter M.

A lot of men wore #35 for the Yankees. Ralph Houk is the man with the most years as #35. He wore it from 1958-1965 and then from 1966-1973. Guys like John Wetteland, Lee Guetterman and [...]

Hideki Matsui announced his retirement yesterday after 10 seasons in the Majors – seven of them with our New York Yankees – and I thought it would be fun to take a look back at his time in Pinstripes.

For this post, I chose to focus on [...]

Phil ‘The Scooter’ Rizzuto would have been 95 today, so I thought it would be fun to look back at some of his numbers and if you have any Scooter memories, you can leave them in the comments. Though to be honest, if you’re old enough to have seen him play, I’m impressed that you [...]

(The following is being syndicated from The Captain’s Blog; follow me on Twitter at@williamnyy23).

The Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies are sellers? The Pittsburgh Pirates, Oakland Athletics, and Baltimore Orioles have all been aggressively trying to upgrade their rosters for a playoff push? When the second wild card was implemented, [...]

Old Timer’s Day seems like an apt time for one of these, so lets jump right to it. Melky Cabrera has cooled off of late, seeing his league-leading average fall from .369 at its peak on June 19 to .350 today on a 8 for 38 (.210) streak. ESPN’s Ben Lindbergh  looked at his [...]

6+ weeks of baseball in the books is a good enough sample dust this baby off for its maiden voyage, so let’s get right to it. Of course there will be some changes this year, most notably Jesus Montero and Hector Noesi from the blockbuster Yankees-Mariners trade this past winter. There will also be some [...]

I guess this no longer qualifies as Yankee news, but AJ Burnett’s career for the Pittsburgh Pirates has gotten off to a rocky start.  In what could only be described as an unfortunate fluke, Burnett fouled a ball into his face while practicing his bunting at Spring Training.  The video is here, and [...]