Rumors are being nosed about that the Yankees are looking hard at Bill Hall and have thought about old man Raul Ibanez for their open designated hitter position. Raul Ibanez is likely past his sell-by date. (AP) Let’s start with the former. It’s good that the Yankees are looking for a utility player ...

The free agency hoedown has begun. The Yankees cut their list of decisions down by two over the weekend by picking up options on Robinson Cano and Nick Swisher for $14 and $10.25 million, respectively, no-brainers, particularly in the case of Cano. There have been some random rumbling that the Yankees ...

The injury to Buster Posey should resonate with the Yankees both with regards to their recent past and their near future. (AP) Though it looked otherwise at the time, the severe leg injury that Giants catcher Buster Posey suffered in a home plate collision with the Marlins’ Scott Cousins on Wednesday ...

Being a writer is far from the hardest job out there, but it has its moments. For example, some days you have to face a blank computer screen and think of something to say about Barry Zito. As you know, with the Yankees’ rotation still being more conceptual than actual, we and the rest of the journo-blogging ...

Tim Lincecum in Game 5: The Yankees were spared this. (AP) That the Giants won the World Series is a wonderful thing. The club and its fans had waited a very long time, really its whole history given that the last time the team won it was playing in another city. This is one of the few times that the ...

Dusty Baker let Russ Ortiz keep the ball as a souvenir when he removed him from Game 6 of the World Series with the Giants seven outs away from their first World Championship in San Francisco. Tonight, eight years later, the Giants might finally get those final outs. (AP) There’s a lot of history ...

The last time one of this year's pennant winners won a World Series, this happened. (AP) It’s easy for New York-area fans, and Yankee fans in particular, to turn their nose up at this year’s World Series pairing of the Giants and Rangers. After all, the Giants can’t hit, and the ...

Former Yankee and current Giants hitting coach Hensley Meulens with Pat Burrell. (AP) Jay Jaffe and I were talking last night about just how unlikely it is that Hensley Meulens is the Giants’ hitting coach. For those that don’t remember Bam-Bam, Meulens was one of the biggest prospect busts the Yankees ...