If you were watching the Yanks-Red Sox broadcast, you might have missed that the Red Sox walloped the Yanks by a score of 6-0 despite their ace CC Sabathia being on the hill.  That is because there was so much speculation about why Jorge Posada was not playing.
While I want to commend FOX for taking [...]

Last week, Joe Girardi, manager for the New York Yankees, expressed great displeasure over having to answer repeated questions about Derek Jeter’s tweaked batting stance.  Whether Jeter abandoned what he had done last year, or in spring training and what it all meant were questions Girardi was not interested in dissecting, and he made it [...]

There may be no bigger time during the year when big decisions are made than this week.  Who is kept on the active roster and who is sent down affects everything from a young players service time to a perhaps a date for retirement for another.
The Yankees have finalized their pitching rotation by interestingly taking [...]

OK, so I speculated a bit yesterday that Torre was invited to Yankee Stadium on Monday to let Joe Girardi know the Yankees had other options.  I think it also might have been to remind Joe that the Yankees couldn’t retire his number if he was managing the Mets.  Sure, he is classy enough to [...]

So, throwing this out there….  since Joe Girardi could, perhaps, take the Cubs job, or at least use that position as a bargaining chip with the Yankees at the end of this season, isn’t it possible that bringing Joe Torre back last night gives the Yankees that same kind of bargaining power?  After all, who [...]