Happy Tuesday, Yankee fans. Here’s a few links for you to read this afternoon.

First up, a piece from Yankee Fans Unite on the top 40 Prospects for 2013. Next, Mariano Rivera proves, once again, that he is the best human ever and that everyone should love him. More from Mo, [...]

Award week is over, and things are about to heating up in free agency over the next couple of weeks.

Melky Cabrera agreed to a 2 year $16 million deal with the Blue Jays. I had little hope that the Yankees would take a risk with him, but he was still a [...]

From “the” Bronx

From the you certainly can predict baseball files comes news that Pedro Feliciano is all but guaranteed to never throw a pitch for the New York Yankees … this, for the umpteenth time or so, and after collecting a cool eight-mill from the Steinbrenners and company. David Aardsma, however, [...]

As you all know by now, Yunel Escobar of the Toronto Blue Jays is a homophobic idot; he’s been suspended for three games for writing “Tu ere maricon” (“You are a faggot) on his eyeblack. Friend of the blog Chip Buck of Firebrand of the AL wrote a deeply personal response [...]

No Yankee baseball tonight, it’s the last off day of the regular season. As we await Andy Pettitte‘s return to the rotation tomorrow, here are some links to feed your hunger.

After Pettitte’s recent words about returning for 2013, Matt Klaassen of FanGraphs looks at the pitchers who survived playing through [...]

A few links as we wait for tonight’s 7:05 pm start in Fenway.

Matt Keegan at Pinstripe Alley takes a look at Nick Swisher‘s slump. Other than some poor numbers, Keegan finds that although he hasn’t whiff’d all week, he’s still making very poor contact. Meanwhile, Brien Jackson at It’s About [...]

No Yankee game tonight, but I do have some links.

 Jeff Zimmerman takes a look at Mark Teixeira’s famous slide from Saturday night. He believes it would have been faster for him to just keep running to firstbase, but that’s hard to ask of a player with calf issues. In other Teixeira news, [...]

From “the” Bronx

Courtesy of fearless leader Michael Eder (this rhymes in my head and heart), likely to be punned into ‘Michael the Elder’ when he has children, NBC Sports Network’s Caught Looking will showcase the most recent series between the Yankees and Orioles at 9 pm … tonight. Interesting timing aside, this does [...]

I hope everyone enjoyed their Labor Day weekend despite the Yankees losing 3 of their last 4 games. The good news is that that they still have control of the AL East, injured players are beginning to return, and they still control their own destiny. Here are some links as we await a