LaTroy Hawkins: Team USA gettin' Desperate

Spring Training Game 7:Yankees v.s Team USAGame Time: 1:15 p.m. @ George M. Steinbrenner Field - Tampa, FLTV | Radio: YES | MLB NetworkYANKEESJohnny Damon LFBrett Gardner CFMark Teixeira 1BJorge Posada DHXavier Nady RFCody Ransom 2BKevin Cash CAngel Berroa SSJustin Leone 3BPitching For The Yankees:Phil Hughes, Phil Coke, Michael Dunn, Jose Veras, Eric Hacker, David Robertson, Kanekoa ...

The World Baseball Classic begins on Thursday with the Japanese squaring off at 4:30 in the morning when they face off against China. Taking the mound for team Japan will be their ace in the hole, none other than Kei Igawa. Instead of throwing Dice-K or Yu Darvish to open up the series the Japanese are going with the Yankees Quadruple A starter Igawa. Probably figuring that the...

Numbers on Steroids is a look at baseball players during the 90s to see if anything screams out at you.It's time to return back to the 1990s and look at the players associated with roiding. Today we go with caught steroid abuser Gary Sheffield.Averages Say: Look at that convenient spike in 2000.At Bats Per Home Run Says: Hmm Steroid Testing in 2004 and up go the ABs per HRExplaining...

The Yankees wrapped up some loose ends this week, meaning they signed 10 players who were already under control, but were playing without contracts for the season. Via the NY Post’s Joel Sherman’s Hardball blog: “The Yankees completed the signing of their 40-man roster players by coming to terms with Jonathan Albaladejo ($220,000 in the minors/$403,075 in [...]

The last time I posted pictures from Yankees.com they threatened to sue me. So I figured it would be better to just post a link to their gallery instead. These are some great new shots, several of areas we haven't seen before. Check it out.

Here's a Statement from the Yankees: New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez will fly to Vail, Colo., on Wednesday, and will be examined and evaluated by Dr. Marc Phillipon, a hip specialist at Steadman-Hawkins Clinic. After experiencing right hip tightness and stiffness this spring, ...

The Yankees and Astros played to a 5-5 tie today. Chien-Ming Wang started the game for the Yankees and in his first two innings since injuring his foot in Houston last June pitched well. He allowed no runs on 2 hits. Four of his six outs were in the air, and the other two were on the ground. He ...

Yanks at Reds The New York Yankees travel to Sarasota today to face the Cincinatti Reds. I am going to post the lineups and the pitchers but first I want to get to a few notes from yesterday. Hideki Matsui was running the bases yesterday and it is believed that he will get into a game as DH next week at some point. Joba wasn't too worried about giving up two rockets yesterday...

Shawn Hoffman of Squawking Baseball has a fantastic interview with John Coppolella, the Director of Baseball Administration for the Atlanta Braves. Coppolella is involved in the salary arbitration process for the Braves. This year saw Jeff Francoeur, Mike Gonzalez, Kelly Johnson and Casey Kotchman file for arbitration, with all by Gonzalez exchanging figures with the club. According...

For the first two months of the 2008 campaign, rookie Kosuke Fukudome was the talk of baseball. The left hand hitting star out of Japan was drawing rave reviews from baseball people because of his ability to get on base, work deep counts, and hit for a solid average. Fukudome appeared to be the ...

--Pens at Lightning tonight, here's a preview. As you can see, Geno and Jordan are excited. [Empty Netters]--Pitt is #3 and #4 in the polls following that hiccup last week against Providence. Joyless Jim Calhoun, who generates $12 million a year for Connecticut, is back in the top spot. [ESPN]--The Buccos take on the Dutch entry from the WBC today, which includes famous Dutchman...

Some random thoughts on a snowbound Monday: Twelve inches in CT. Snow in March is gay. Call me crazy but I think Jimmy Fallon's new talk show (which debuts tonight) has a good chance of being Train Wreck TV. I saw Fallon guesting for Letterman during Dave's heart attack hiatus and he sucked. ...

Even a bad day at the ballpark is better than a good day at the office, so please don't take any portion of this post as a complaint. The sun was shining, not a drop of rain fell, there were almost as many Mets fans as there were Tigers fans at Joker Marchant Stadium, Detroit's spring training ...

From Bryan Hoch:Yankees right-hander Jonathan Albaladejo left Sunday's Grapefruit League exhibition against the Reds after being struck in the right foot by a batted ball. Albaladejo was working in the bottom of the third inning, when Cincinnati's Jeff Keppinger hit a hard shot up the middle and ...

The Yankees took on Derek Jeter and Team USA today at George M. Steinbrenner Field with Team USA winning 6-5. Also, for some reason USA manager Davey Johnson decided to play 6 of his 9 regulars for the entire game.Phil Hughes started for the Yankees, and in 2.2 innings allowed two earned runs on ...