Mark Feinsand writes that "Alex Rodriguez has successful surgery on torn labrum in his right hip". Not being a doctor, I must suppose that "successful" means that he didn't expire, or maybe that they didn't need to lose the leg. "Yankees bosses are hopeful A-Rod will be back sometime in May. Phillip...

Our good friend Tim Einenkel over at Air America was nice enough to offer us this interview with Steven Goldman of Baseball Prospectus, known also to Yanks fans for his fine Pinstripe Bible and Blog columns on the YES network website. Tim Einenkel: What are the positives and negatives regarding how ...

Our pal Jay Jaffe, the Futility Infielder,recently got his relocated seat assignment at the new Yankee Stadium. Suffice it to say, he's mad as hell and he's (probably) not going to take it anymore. The bottom line is that this is an outrage, a disgrace, a catastrophe on the level of Joe Torre summon...

A little while ago, we parsed the Keith Law/ESPN.com Top 100 prospects list. Now here comes Kevin Goldstein with the Baseball Prospectus list. In case you'd forgotten, here's what Law said were the Sox/Yankee prospects in the Top 100: 7: Lars Anderson 46: Austin Jackson 52: Michael Bowden 81...

This installment will give the Yankees the same treatment I gave the Red Sox, back before The Story. Installment 3, sometime before April, will finally do some head-to-head comparisons. ZiPS hasn't posted the Yankee projections yet, so we'll go with CHONE, which was determined to be the most...

Andy Pettitte is returning to the Yanks according to the AP. He's taking a huge pay cut, but one wonders if Joe Torre's explosive jeremiad against the Yanks, A-Rod, the Bronx, the fans, my family, your family, everyone's family, and your momma, gave the big lefty ideas about a way to mak...

Keith Law yesterday opened the Prospectalooza that is the numerous Top 100 prospects lists we see around this time every year. The big surprise (at least to me) is that power 1B Lars Anderson is the No. 7 prospect in all of baseball. I've heard lots of good things about him, but No. 7?? La...

The Sports Hernia delivers maybe the definitive Yankee fan goodbye post for Carl Pavano. It's reminiscent of that scene in 25th Hour when Ed Norton gives that F-You monologue about New York City, except the rant is only about one person, and the speaker is not projecting his self-hate on the tar...

If you haven't checked out FanGraphs in a while -- and I admit I've been something of a wayward son -- you need to. Because they have, in short, revolutionized the concept of the comprehensive value-based statistic. The stat is called Win Value. And it makes all the difference for what I fee...

A number of articles have been written about the dimming chances of an Andy Pettitte return now that the Yanks landed another high-priced free agent. The ubiquitous anonymous sources are doing a fine job of pissing leaking the Yanks' supposed real thinking about the Pettitte negotiations to beat...