For most people, a birthday is a once-a-year celebration of, well, them, and that’s that. Sure, there are your stereotypical birthday parties with the funny hats and noisemakers and cakes and clowns, but it still remains one day among 365, guaranteed to occur each year so long as there is no Gregorian ...

Of all the bits of Yankees history I’ve written about over the years, one I’ve never gotten around to is the short-lived “Go-Go Yankees” phase of 1982, when George Steinbrenner became enamored of the Whitey Herzog school of baseball and decided to emphasize the running game. He supplemented the ...

While Jesus Montero remained in Yankee pinstripes, the Bombers didn’t just have their potential designated hitter; they also had an insurance policy. If the team’s supposed power hitters, for whatever reason, had an off year, Montero could, in an ideal world, step into that void and help ...

So yesterday, the Yankees announced the signing of Burt Reynolds.  No, really. It feels a little bit like entering the Twilight Zone, because the Yankees once upon a time really did sign Billy Crystal, who got one at-bat in a spring training game, only this Burt Reynolds isn’t that Burt Reynolds, ...

Mariano Rivera’s name rolls off the tongue easy, the same way a luxury car rides, nothing but pure pleasure. It’s a name you might expect of a fashion designer: just imagine Emma Stone walking the red carpet at the Oscars, in a straight-from-the-runway gown, flashing her smile as she tells ...

Let’s catch up on various happenings around the Yankees: A.J. Burnett is gone. It’s not his liberation, it’s ours. Having contemplated this event in these pages for more than a year, I’ve no more to say. We’ll never see the “prospects” involved in the deal again—well, maybe the pitcher—but ...

I’m not doing a campers post this year (Steve has that covered). Nor am I going to do a liveblog of the Yankees’ first televised exhibition game, nor my Spring Training game capsules. After eight-plus seasons, I’m taking a step back from blogging about the Yankees. It may be presumptuous of me, ...

Dirk Hayhurst: Right-Handed Author (AP) All of us have dreams. Everything in the American psyche is built on the idea of having dreams—boundless optimism, the idea that the world will be left a better place for one’s children, the unstoppable march of progress. The phrase “The American ...

I think he looks far better than he ever did in pinstripes: He’s definitely dressed for success. The “34″ in the corner is the approximate amount of dollars (in millions) remaining on Burnett’s contract (and, as Cliff Corcoran points out, his uniform number).  Read More →

Picking where we left off on Wednesday, let’s take a look at what’s become of the top five Yankees’ prospects over the last four years whose last names fall in the latter half of the alphabet (it’s a mouthful, I know)… Ian Kennedy Originally one of the “Big Three” ...

I bet you didn’t think I would finish before May. In past years, that wouldn’t have been so bad; at times, clubs were allowed to carry oversized rosters out of spring training, then faced a regular-season cut-down day. Some of these fellows might have gotten into a few games that way. It’s all ...

Attention, please: Nick Swisher Crazy energy Also brings power and patience Yanks thank you, K.W. Mark Texeira Not on the mark, Tex Don’t lose the bat by bunting Learn to beat the shift Thank you. We now return you to your regularly-scheduled programming.  Read More →