Just a quick comment on this, because it’s one of our most consistent themes here and neither you nor I needs to see me bang this drum until it get sore. Brian Cashman has reiterated that he remains interested in retaining Bartolo Colon or Freddy Garcia. The Yankees wouldn’t have accomplished ...

The identity of the Yankees' third starter for the Division Series remains an unsettled — and unsettling — mystery. Tuesday night was as crazy as this season has seen. With both leagues’ Wild Card races still up for grabs on the penultimate day of the regular season, no less than four games ...

Eric Chavez is on his way back to the big league roster. (AP) As you’d expect when the AL’s second-best team faces off with one on a 15-game losing streak, the Yankees pounded the Mariners 10-3 on Monday night, waiting out a two-hour rain delay to do so. Mark Texiera’s towering two-run ...

I come off as Mr. Cynical, Captain Pessimism, and Flash Curmudgeon rolled into one, I know that. It’s just that I have a need to know the why of things before I embrace them. If you park- and league-adjust Freddy Garcia’s ERA, he now ranks 12th in the American League. Yet, if you look at the way ...

Freddy Garcia delivered the latest in a series of strong outings on Tuesday. (AP) Left out of Tuesday’s discussion of Ivan Nova’s rotation spot was any mention of Freddy Garcia, whose strong work thus far has been overshadowed by the fantastic story that is Bartolo Colon. Backed by a whole ...

Despite being zombies, Freddy Garcia and Bartolo Colon continue to carry the Yankee rotation. On Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium, it was just like Joe Girardi drew it up in spring training: eight dominant innings from Bartolo Colon, topped by a Mariano Rivera save. Wait, what? Sure enough, the pinstriped ...

Could the Yankees have plucked the reincarnation of Thurman Munson off the scrap heap? (AP) “A Return to Normalcy” is the title of this week’s Prospectus AL Hit List — you gotta drop those Warren Harding references while they’re still fresh, kids — and while the Yankees topping ...

Oliver Perez: Here comes ball 17... 23... 28... 37... (AP) Oliver Perez was released by the Mets today, the most unsurprising move since the Russo-German non-aggression pact was broken. The next unsurprising news you will hear is that the Yankees have taken a look at him. I don’t expect they really ...

A point in Freddy Garcia's favor: he was well above average in delivering quality starts in 2010. (AP) Today at Baseball Prospectus, I’ve got a look at an oft-misunderstood metric, quality starts. Invented 25 years ago by Philadelphia Inquirer writer John Lowe (now at the Detroit Free Press), ...

Last spring on a faraway coast, the Dodgers began the season with two of the most retreaded retreads ever to tread onto a shorthanded pitching staff. Collectively, they were known as the Zombie Ortiz brothers, though their only relation was by bloody awfulness, not by blood. Beware the pull of spring ...

PECOTA likes Sergio Mitre more than you'd expect. (AP) This morning, the first build of the 2011 PECOTA forecasts was released to Baseball Prospectus subscribers. For many of BP’s readers (not to mention our writers), this glimpse of the coming season’s projections is the equivalent of ...

Photo: Steph Bee After writing about the likely futility of trying to get something more out of Bartolo Colon and Freddy Garcia, I was bothered by my inability to think of examples: how many pitchers out of the Colon and Garcia pile really have come back? With Jay Jaffe’s help, I looked back at the ...