Hendrickson to the Orioles

Thurman Munson was one of the best catchers to ever play the game of baseball. He is certainly the best MLB athlete to ever wear the jersey number 15.Munson played his entire career, spanning the years of 1969 to 1979, with the New York Yankees. His career, and life, were cut short by a tragic ...

By Gary Contrary to popular belief, the Yankees are not ruining Major League Baseball. It has become a popular winter ritual to discuss the Yankee gluttonous free agent behavior. It hit an all-time high last week when they inked Mark Teixeira to an eight year, $180, million dollar ...

B&C’s Patrick Smith just can’t let the salary cap argument go, perpetuating it with a piece today taking on my stance against a salary cap. He ends his argument by saying ‘feel free to use the comments section below to call me whiny.’ Ahh, Patrick. Forget that. I will just use this space right here to do [...]

With all this excitement surround the Yankees and all of the free agent players they acquired, it made me think about what will happen after the 2009 season. Molina, Damon, Nady, and Matsui are all up for free agency after next season. Here are a few guys that are available for free agency next year that might interest the Yankees. The Yankees will have LF, RF, and the DH position...

As most any season ticket holder to the Baltimore Orioles knows -- the Evil Empire will be coming to Charm City for Opening Day at Camden Yards on April 6th. There will be hardcore Oriole fans who will be there, but of course there will also be a throng of Yankee fans -- local and not -- coming ...

I’ve had a rather enjoyable time this past week reading all the fatalistic “The Yankees are taking over the world” articles that seem to be reproducing themselves like tribbles all over the internet. The fear inherent in these essays is palpable. Basically, the fans of the other 29 teams in baseball are soiling their khakis. Many [...]

Our Yankee guy Ed decries “the stupidity of pushing the salary cap.” Yeah, the salary cap is so stupid that the NFL, the biggest loser, communist knuckleheads in the whole wide sports world, love it. It’s so completely idiotic that the NBA, a small-peanuts outfit if ever there was one, uses it. And it’s so [...]

Generally, a win is worth somewhere between 5 and 6 million dollars to the average team. The Yankees had 89 wins last year with a payroll of about 220 million dollars. That's pretty inefficient and a lot that is due to bad contracts they gave out to players who are no getting old and still ...

Kat O'Brien spoke with former Yankees manager Buck Showalter about Mark Teixeira, and here is some of what he had to say:"I think he'll do well. All multi-year contracts have some risk, but I think he's a great health risk. He's not going to embarrass you on or off the field. He's going to be ...

Eyeing possible complications with his arbitration-eligible players, the Phillies zeroed in on Jamie Moyer and Raul Ibanez and finished their shopping while others haven’t gotten started. There was no question this hot stove season would have a unique feel. Winning it all zapped much of the urgency away, and with Moyer and Ibanez added to the fold weeks ago, signaling the end of...

Jim Hendry was on XM radio with Rob Dibble and his co-host...Stern something or other. The completely uninteresting highlights: trading DeRosa was the toughest trade he ever made  too right-handed Fontenot and Miles at second base No talks at all with Baltimore for "the player" (Brian Roberts) couple of deals expected over the next few...

Mexican Pacific League- Ramiro Pena (Culican) went 3-for-5 with a double and three runs scored. The three hits raised his average to .283.Venezuelan Winter League- Francisco Cervelli (Lara) went 0-for-2 to drop his average to .267.- Carlos Mendoza (Lara) went 1-for-4, he's now hitting .300.- Luis... ...

After not allowing the year to end quietly, Jim Hendry joined Casey Stern and Rob Dibble on the Show Wednesday afternoon. Hendry discussed trading Mark DeRosa, signing Aaron Miles, Alfonso Soriano, Mike Fontenot and revealed the fact he has had no talks at all this off-season with the Baltimore ...

Marty Noble of MLB.com is reporting the following in a post to his blog. They intend to make offers early this week to at least two and probably three free-agent pitchers -- Derek Lowe, Oliver Perez and Randy Wolf -- in hopes of signing one of them. A person familiar with the club's immediate plans indicated as much Sunday, noting the club isn't likely to pursue free agent...

After a holiday hiatus, the Redbird ramblings at B&C are back.? And in case you?ve been left wanting over the past couple weeks, don?t worry.? You didn?t miss anything.? Watching the Yankees stock pile marquee free agents and run up a tab of over $400 million on three big names over the past month has [...]