Who wants to see a great player struggle? During this offseason, there has been much speculation as to when Mariano Rivera will choose to retire, something he dropped hints about last season. My only preference is that whenever he does it, it’s too soon rather than too late. I don’t want to see Rivera ...

I’ll have more to say later, but for now, may it suffice to say that he was one of the most important least-appreciated Yankees of all time; his glovework was never pretty, but his bat helped the Yankees conceal many a sin at other positions. Here is what I wrote about him for the Baseball Prospectus ...

Jorge Posada: What is he supposed to do, put himself in a glass case? (AP) Earlier today, veteran journalist Bob Klapisch tweeted this response to stories that Jorge Posada had reached out to the Mets for a job: Have huge respect for Posada’s career, but fact that he called #Mets looking for work ...

Posada wearing the tools of ignorance: quoth the raven, "Nevermore." (AP) Sometimes a team makes a decision and rigidly sticks by it no matter what else is happening. It’s easy to mock the club for its inflexibility in such situations, one such being the Yankees’ decision that Jorge ...

Russell Martin's receiving skills have been a bigger boon to the Yankee staff than expected. (AP) Today at Baseball Prospectus, colleague Mike Fast published a monumental piece about the effects of catcher mechanics on ball/strike calls, quantifying the impact that catchers have around the margins. ...

Just click the picture already. The past weekend found the Yankees involved in a few big stories. Their four-game losing streak was their second-longest of the season. Their lineup and bullpen looked particularly threadbare due to minor injuries and fatigue, and Joe Girardi’s managing around that ...

On Tuesday night, the Yankee Stadium grounds crew attempted to hold back the ocean with a rake. (AP) Tuesday night’s Yankees-Orioles game was one of the most ridiculous games in recent memory, piling absurdity upon absurdity into the wee hours of the morning. The game didn’t officially start ...

I’m still absorbing the idea of having CC Sabathia cram 128 pitches into six innings in a game that was in no way a must win as an acceptable strategy—it’s one thing to throw 128 pitches in nine innings, another to squeeze them into two-thirds the space, and I would hate to see the myth of Sabathia’s ...

Curtis Granderson made major league history when he connected for the Yankees' third grand slam of the game. The start of Thursday afternoon’s game against the A’s was delayed an hour and a half due to rain, and by the third inning, Yankees fans were hoping that Mother Nature would hurry ...

Good afternoon, folks. Still getting over whatever I did to myself, but I was reading this Joel Sherman bit on the persistence of Jorge Posada and was reminded of this: in late August, 1956, Yankees manager Casey Stengel and General Manager George Weiss called aside the then-38-year-old Phil Rizzuto ...

Though he's still shy in the power department, Jorge Posada's stroke is starting to come around. (AP) Between the losses of Joba Chamberlain and Bartolo Colon and the sweep by the Red Sox in the Bronx, it wasn’t exactly a banner week for the Yankees, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t ...

In my last post, I made an offhanded plea for a Jesus Montero promotion, saying, “Jesus Montero has had a weak May, but given his overall talent and track record that isn’t particularly meaningful.” Today, ESPN’s Keith Law posted a reevaluation of his top prospects list (subscribers ...