CC Sabathia looked sharp in his spring debut on Monday. (AP) The Yankees’ Rule 5 picks blew a slim mid-inning lead as the Yankees fell to the Tigers on Monday. Lineup: R – Derek Jeter (SS) L – Robinson Cano (2B) S – Mark Teixeira (1B) R – Alex Rodriguez (3B) R – Andruw ...

A portrait of Duke Snider by Sports Illustrated's great Hy Peskin. Cliff already hit most of the high notes in rounding up the three takes on Duke Snider offered by Steve, himself and myself at SI.com and Baseball Prospectus, but I’d just like to add a few more points, sharpening some of what ...

That headline should really be “looking back at Duke Snider,” since none of us was alive when he played his last game. Still, Snider, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 84, looms large in the collective baseball memory for his central role in what is generally described as baseball’s ...

Ivan Nova got a nice head start in the rotation competition on Sunday. (AP) The Yankees, led by Ivan Nova, handled a well-stocked Phillies team in their first road game of the spring. Lineup: L – Brett Gardner (LF) S – Nick Swisher (RF) L – Curtis Granderson (CF) S – Jorge ...

Wilson Valdez scores ahead of Francisco Cervelli's tag in the fifth inning. (AP) The Yankees lost a see-saw game at home in their opening spring tilt. Check out my liveblog, or just skip to the highlights below. Lineup: R – Derek Jeter (SS) S – Nick Swisher (RF) S – Mark Teixeira ...

Hello, baseball fans, and welcome to the 2011 exhibition season! Today I will be liveblogging the action as the Yankees open their spring schedule at home in Tampa against the Philadelphia Phillies. Just to give you a sense of the pace, I’ll likely update every half inning and after each scoring ...

At the very least, Russell Martin talks a good game. (AP) If you ever wonder why I sound jaded about the ups and downs of Russell Martin’s production and health after following him for five seasons, look no further than this brief compendium of “best shape of my life” quotes which the ...

Yankee manager Joe Girardi will have a lot of decisions to make this spring. (AP) We don’t do regular-season game recaps here at the Pinstriped Bible, largely because we prefer to focus less on what happened than why and what it means, but also in part because the market is already flooded from ...

It's all well and good to be armed with young pitchers, but they're not going to grow up to be Felix Hernandez just because you promote them at a young age. (AP) Reading Steve’s recent piece about the supposed dangers of rushing young pitchers, I was struck by something that inspired my ...

The sight of Jorge Posada in catching gear is going to become increasingly rare. (AP) I don’t follow college or professional football anymore. Part of that is simply a byproduct of writing about baseball on a year-round basis, with a peak intensity that parallels the football season, from September ...

Russell Martin's right knee will keep him out of Saturday's exhibition opener. (AP) No news is good news in the two weeks between Pitchers and Catchers and the first exhibition game of the spring. When practice and platitudes are all that come across the wire from your favorite team’s camp, ...

Ben Zobrist: With Brandon Laird, the Yankees are trying to capture some of the roster flexibility the infielder/outfielder grants to the Rays. (AP) The jolly guys at LoHud report that, as was anticipated,“Joe Girardi has already told [Brandon] Laird that he’ll be playing all over the place during ...