Did the Knicks just help the Yanks?

From Jon Heyman:The Yankees have not yet set a deadline for their $140-million, six-year offer to free-agent starting pitcher CC Sabathia, and according to someone familiar with their thinking, they have no intention to pull the offer anytime soon.New Yankees boss Hal Steinbrenner was responding ...

From Buster Olney:Sabathia, in the end, may take the largest offer that he will receive -- and in the end, the largest offer will come from the Yankees. But other factors, such as friendships, will be a factor in how Sabathia decides, and the Yankees might have gotten very lucky on Friday. The ...

From Jon Heyman:The Yankees have not yet set a deadline for their $140-million, six-year offer to free-agent starting pitcher CC Sabathia, and according to someone familiar with their thinking, they have no intention to pull the offer anytime soon. New Yankees boss Hal Steinbrenner was ...

According to the Los Angeles Times, the Angels will pursue other needs as they wait for their Mark Teixeira's price to fall. What this means is that the Angels will aggressively pursue CC Sabathia as they wait for Teixeira to back of his ten year demands. The Angels have reportedly met with CC Sabathia and plan to extend him a 140-million dollar contract offer, similar to the...

From Anthony McCarron :The Yankees are on an all-out pitching blitz, but A.J. Burnett's desire for a five-year contract has bogged down the Bombers' pursuit of the righthander, according to a baseball executive familiar with the team's thinking. The Yankees, who made a six-year, $140 million ...

Top pitching free agent CC Sabathia might be heading to a Los Angeles ball club a?" although not the LA club many thought he might land with.The Angels, not the Dodgers, have apparently turned their attention from first basemen Mark Teixeira to Sabathia. The Angels, unwilling to meet Mark ...

CC Sabathia, AJ Burnett and Derek Lowe. How terrible would it be if the Yankees were unable to sign even one of them?You know how I feel about CC Sabathia. I hope he gets a chance to swing the bat every five days for some NL team on the West Coast. Let them suffer the effects of the 253 innings ...

Not much going out there in Yankeeland. Hal Steinbrenner has assumed control of the team, but other than that all is pretty quiet. As long as the person in the charge of the Yankees is named Steinbrenner, I'm happy. Hal and Hank definitely know what their father has meant for the team and for ...

Bryan Hoch has a great article up at MLB.com about how today's players incorporate nutrition into the routines that maintain their careers. Andy Pettitte is quoted in the article:"With the money that you make, you just owe it to everybody -- not only to yourself, but to your team and to your ...

From the LA Times:The Angels, unwilling to meet Mark Teixeira's desire for a 10-year contract, are in discussions with CC Sabathia and could offer him a contract that approaches the $140-million bid extended to him by the New York Yankees.The Angels appear reluctant to guarantee more than seven ...

There are a ton of huge names on the free agent market this offseason: Mark Teixeira, CC Sabathia, Derek Lowe, and Bobby Abreu among others. One of the names usually left off the list is pitcher Junichi Tazawa. Tazawa made waves a few months ago by becoming the first Japanese player to bypass the Japanese leagues and come straight to the MLB. There are more than a couple teams interested...

From Ken Rosenthal:Mike Mussina has retired, and the Yankees could lose Andy Pettitte, too. Don't believe it?Pettitte, 36, has spoken more than once with his former manager, Joe Torre, about joining the Dodgers, according to major-league sources.His first choice is to stay with the Yankees. The ...

By Gary ArmidaAs discussed many times on this site, perception often becomes reality. As smart as baseball people can be, they are often misled by these untruths which result in poor decisions. This common practice is often seen during the free agent period. It happens every year-a player who is ...

Early in the offseason there was a big debate as to what direction the Seattle Mariners franchise would head after GM Bill Bavasi was fired.A Would they rebuild?A Perhaps they'd just reload/retool?The consensus was that a rebuild was coming, simply because that's what bad teams do.A But then ...

From Mark Feinsand:The Yankees have made their desire for CC Sabathia well known. But when it comes to Mark Teixeira, could the Bombers be laying in the weeds?GM Brian Cashman has been saying very little when it comes to this year's free-agent market, but a source familiar with the team's ...