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It’s Arbitration Offer Day! Do You Know Where Your Wallet Is?
It should be an easy call for the Yankees to offer Kerry Wood arbitration, and perhaps some smoked salmon as well. (AP)
Today is the last day for teams to offer their free agents arbitration. It used to be that failing to offer arbitration pretty much ended things between player and team, but now the ...
What Wood Cashman Do?
Cliff worries that resigning Kerry Wood would result in a lot more of this than the Yankees saw in 2010. (AP)
Just six days have passed since the Yankees were eliminated from the ALCS by the pennant-winning Rangers, but there has been plenty of news out of the Bronx over that span. Damaso Marte and CC ...
Wood the Yankees Miss These Guys?
Kerry Wood: The Yankees have paid the ransom. (AP)
When New York acquired Kerry Wood on July 31, they assumed $1.5 million of his contract, with the Indians netting an additional $500,000 if Wood could stay healthy. The former phenom flourished in pinstripes, so it’s safe Cleveland has another check ...
ALDS Game 2: Pettitte, Mo, Same As It Ever Was
Andy Pettitte in ALDS Game 2: A pro rises to the occasion. (AP)
After the last out of tonight’s game, Pinstriped Bible-Study member Jay Jaffe tweeted, “Pettite with a brilliant start, Rivera with the save. Same as it ever was.” Tonight, everything went according to plan. Andy Pettitte, who ...
Good Wood
A couple weeks back, Kerry Wood supplanted Pedro Martinez by reaching the 1500 career strikeout mark in the fewest innings of anyone in baseball history. It took Wood just 1,303 innings to reach that plateau, whereas Martinez reached it in 1,337. As relatively obscure milestones go, it was a bittersweet ...
Relief at Last
Former Cubs phenom Kerry Wood is just another live arm for the late innings. (AP)
Though they’ve looked better the past two nights in beating the Tigers, the Yankees are a sluggish 18-14 since the All-Star break, locked into a tie with the Rays atop the AL East after holding sole possession of ...
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A FEW BRIEF WORDS ON KERRY WOOD
As I said on Twitter earlier, having acquired Kerry Wood, the Yankees now stand an excellent chance of winning the 2001 World Series. Kerry Wood has been fairly miserable the last couple of years. As a closer in 2009-2010, he converted 28 saves and blew nine, which is ...
