The Super Bowl is America’s most-hyped sports event of the year, so it’s perhaps no surprise that there are plenty of oddities that go with it—such as half time act Madonna getting her very own press conference. Among the questions asked was one about the rumored painting of Rodriguez ...

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 ...

His postseason was a disappointment, but picking up Nick Swisher's 2012 option should be a relatively easy call. (AP) As the Yankees begin going about their offseason plan, the first order of business is retaining Brian Cashman. Once that’s done — and it’s expected to happen fairly ...

Nick Swisher's production has been sky-high since June. (AP) The Yankees salvaged a split of their bifurcated series in Baltimore witha 3-2 win over the Orioles on Monday night. Although their offense connected for just four hits in seven innings against Alfredo Simon, two of them were big ones, ...

For Alex Rodriguez as well as the Yankee lineup as a whole, the hits have been falling in even as the balls have been staying in the yard. It's all good. (AP) The Yankees continued to pound the ol’ pill on Tuesday night, beating up on Zack Greinke and the Brewers 12-2 as the enigmatic ace was ...

Nick Swisher hasn't had much trouble against lefties this year... (AP) With their victory over the Reds on Monday night, the Yankees have now won nine of their last 11 games, making this their hottest such streak of the season. Even including the miserable three-game sweep by the Red Sox that preceded ...

As today’s Yankees-Jays game rolls on and Curtis Granderson and Mark Teixeira knocking home more runs, I wanted to amplify what Jay wrote in his last entry about how the Yankees are hitting in the clutch, using Baseball Prospectus’s RBI opportunities page. The Yankees have hit relatively poorly with ...

Nick Swisher's big hit on Wednesday night may be a sign he's emerging from his slump. (AP) The Yankees won a laugher on Thursday night, beating Baltimore 13-2 to notch their third straight win. It was just their second blowout win this month, the other coming in Texas on May 8the day Derek Jeter ...

I come to you today from Washington, DC, where we just completed a round of radio appearances and a bookstore event. It’s always good to visit a city where they don’t have a competitive team to shrug off your jaded feelings about the coming race. This is a town where the people ask, almost ...

When Brett Gardner is about ready to hang 'em up, Justin Upton will still be in his prime. (AP) In a blog post this morning, Joel Sherman of the New York Post wrote that the Yankees were not one of the teams pushing to acquire Justin Upton. “They like their current outfield enough that they do ...

Nick Swisher hit just fine in the ALDS this year. (AP) I don’t give much credence to most hot stove rumors and largely tune them out, particularly early in the season, when there’s not much going on and those rumors seemed designed as much to fill column inches and allow agents and general managers ...

Nick Swisher croons Genesis's 1980 hit, "Turn It On Again" in a surprisingly rich baritone. (AP) It better not have been a playoff preview. After the Yankees won eight straight games from August 28 to September 4, giving them a record of 86-50, I started to wonder about A.J. Burnett, who ...