Today’s sermon will be brief: the Yankees have had a major consistency problem thus far. Even with the thrashing at the hands of the Red Sox, they have they have gone 12-8 in their last 20 games, which will get you to 97 wins if you carry it through over a full season. On the other hand, if you want ...

It's going to be a long time before Yankee fans get to watch Joba Chamberlain pump his fist or shout into his glove again. (AP) Wednesday’s announcement that Joba Chamberlain would head to the disabled list with a strained flexor muscle was enough to cast a pall over the Yankees as they headed ...

David Robertson has become quite the escape artist. (AP) Tuesday night’s 3-1 win over the Royals — which featured a Melky Cabrera home run in his first game back at Yankee Stadium, natch — contained good news and bad news with regards to the Yankee bullpen, which provided three scoreless innings ...

Tuesday night's mishap notwithstanding, Rafael Soriano gives the Yankees one more high-grade reliever to call upon. (AP) This week at Baseball Prospectus, I’ve peeked into our PECOTA projection system’s expectations for each team’s bullpen in a manner similar to the way I evaluated ...

Perhaps Monty Hall can broker a potential deal between the Twins and Yankees. We’ve discussed the enigmatic Twins’ starter Francisco Liriano, both here and at Baseball Prospectus. And Lord have mercy, we have discussed Joba Chamberlain, flogged the should-start horse to death, milked the ...

The big news today seems to be that Joba Chamberlain has put on a few pounds. Yet, as CC Sabathia has shown, who knows where the sweet spot for pitching wait lies? Here is how things have worked out for Yankees pitchers in the past. Some notable pitchers in each weight category (and take these with a ...

In my rush to react to Brian Cashman’s comments about Joba Chamberlain’s 2008 shoulder injury this morning, I now realize, I did a disservice to Chamberlain’s performance as a starter in 2009. I presented Chamberlain’s full-season stats to represent his post-injury performance ...

According to Brian Cashman, Joba Chamberlain hasn't been the same pitcher since this moment back in August 2008. (AP) Brian Cashman was interviewed by Mike Francesa this morning at an event called “WFAN’s Breakfast with a Champion” at the Times Square Hard Rock Cafe. ESPNW’s ...

Sports Illustrated’s Jon Heyman has tweeted (everything happens by tweet nowadays; if Congress ever declares war again, you know where to look for it) that the Yankees are “thought to” have signed reliever Rafael Soriano to a three-year, $35 million contract. Nothing is official until it’s official, ...

YANKEES SOLVE ROTATION WOES, ADD YOUNG ARM BRONX, NY — The Yankees found a potential solution to their problematic starting rotation today when they added a 25-year-old right-hander, once considered among the best starting pitching prospects in baseball, who joins the rotation with a 4.18 ERA and 206 ...

If he can help bring Upton, Chamberlain should do next year's sweating in different colors. (AP) Since I commented on Kevin Towers floating the idea of dealing Justin Upton yesterday, what seemed like a mere trial balloon now has taken on a greater reality. The Diamondbacks barely escaped losing ...

For the second time in three starts he received the kind of bullpen support that could only be explained by having run over the manager’s dog repeatedly, but before all hell broke loose on Thursday night, C.J. Wilson delivered another strong postseason start for the Rangers. At the outset of the ...