I haven’t had a chance to do this in a long, long time. I’m working off the comments in yesterday’s Daily Nunez post: Thirty-seven percent of all articles Steve now writes are about Derek Jeter. Sad. Jeter was once a great short stop, and Steve Goldman once used to write interesting ...

Fan voting for the All-Star starters ends at midnight tonight, so here’s a quick look at who the most deserving American League candidates are and how the Yankees’ starting nine stacks up. First Base Mark Teixeira leads the majors in home runs, but he has been at best just the fourth most ...

Has Eduardo Nunez warped your senses too? In which I continue to get carried away by a small sample in spite of myself:   AVG OBP SLG SB CS Nunez Since Derek .295 .354 .409 4 3 Derek Jeter .260 .324 .324 7 2   I know it’s silly, but I’m enjoying it.  Read More →

A.J. Burnett should be looking over his shoulder given his performance over the last season and a half. (AP) Brian Gordon was skipped in the Yankee rotation with Monday’s off-day and it sounds like Bartolo Colon will be ready to come off the disabled list and take his spot back against the Mets ...

For Alex Rodriguez as well as the Yankee lineup as a whole, the hits have been falling in even as the balls have been staying in the yard. It's all good. (AP) The Yankees continued to pound the ol’ pill on Tuesday night, beating up on Zack Greinke and the Brewers 12-2 as the enigmatic ace was ...

Prince Fielder is taking the Brewers, and opposing pitchers, for a ride this season. (AP) The Brewers’ plan this offseason was clear: facing Prince Fielder’s sure departure as a free agent following the 2011 season, Milwaukee was going to go all-in for this season, trading what was left in ...

Since Derek Jeter was last spotted on Planet Baseball, the Yankees have gone 9-3. The quality of the opposition—the Rangers, Cubs, Reds, and Rockies—runs the gamut from very good to fairly miserable, but 9-3 against any level of opposition short of the 2003 Tigers is very good. Vast oversimplification ...

Yogi Berra and Reggie Jackson help pay tribute to trainer Gene Monahan on Old Timers' Day. (AP) I spent a loooong Sunday at Yankee Stadium, arriving in the Bronx in time for the pre-Old Timers’ Day press conferences hailing first-time participants Lou Piniella, Bernie Williams and Joe Torre ...

Ubaldo Jimenez's struggles thus far this season have been emblematic of the Rockies as a whole. (AP) The Rockies were the National League’s Wild Card entry in 2009, and have been popular pre-season playoff picks each of the last two years. Just using the SI.com experts’ picks, which I ...

With Jim Riggleman having punted his career away yesterday, the Nationals are in the market for a permanent replacement to follow interim commander John McLaren. The one wonderful aspect of what is a rather sad story is that Riggleman’s wriggle out of DC follows closely on the heels of the Marlins’ ...

Figuring out when to recall a prospect and put him in the line of fire is Noesi task. (AP) In the comment thread of my last piece, reader DavidG touched upon something that I’ve been meaning to get to in my various pieces on Brian Gordon: I would love to hear your feedback on yet another theory ...

Last week's It-Starter was sooooo last week. (AP) Brian Gordon couldn’t match his miraculous Yankee debut. Facing the Reds in the nightcap of Wednesday’s doubleheader, the 32-year-old converted outfielder surrendered three home runs and four runs in five innings. “I made three mistakes ...