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Read: A-Rod becoming a leader in the clubhouse

Alex Rodriguez has been the highest paid Yankee for years, but for a long time he wasn't a leader in the clubhouse. He was typically too busy putting his foot in his mouth to gain the respect of some of the elder statesmen so instead he deferred to Jorge Posada and the rest of the ...

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Yankees projected to have 7th best defense in MLB

The Fielding Bible Volume III is coming out soon and to promote the book John Dewan and Bed Jedlovec sent out a press release that includes the projected defensive runs saved for 2012 and the Yankees are sitting in a decent spot ranked 7th on the list. "Defensive Runs Saved" is a metric that was developed ...

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Read: Martin one of the best defensive catchers in baseball

Max Marchi over at Baseball Prospectus took a look at catcher's ability to improve performance in their pitchers and determined that Russell Martin is among the best in the game. Martin was ranked 3rd with 67 runs prevented behind defensive wizards Jose Molina (103) and A.J. Pierzynski(83). Those numbers don't include fielding of groundballs, stopping baserunners, and ...

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Read: Scouting Report on Jose Campos

The really interesting part of the entire Jesus Montero-for-Michael Pineda to me is the 19-year-old Jose Campos, who seems like much more than just a throw in. Bart Klett over at Prospect Instrinct ranked Campos as the No. 5 prospect in the Mariner's system and put together a scouting report on him back in late August. ...

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Read: the Brien Taylor story

The Yankees were bad in the late 80's and early 90's, but it helped them get the 1st overall pick in the draft with which they selected Brien Taylor. He was supposed to be Doc Gooden amazing, but in the end his career was even shorter than the troubled former Met. Taylor went from a kid ...

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Read: a scout’s take on Hiroyuki Nakajima

This was actually buried at the bottom of the last Ken Rosenthal article I linked to, but I felt like it needed its own post. Here is Rosenthal reporting on what a scout told him about Hiroyuki Nakajima, the Japanese infielder the Yankees recently won the rights to negotiate with after a $2.5 million bid: A ...

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The greatest Derek Jeter story ever

Derek Jeter is a lot of things, one of the best shortstops of all time, a sure fire Hall of Famer, and a World Champion among many other things. One thing he isn't though is interesting. Jeter gives some of the most boring, cliche filled interviews in all of sports. Don't get me wrong, it's part ...

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Read: the Yankees 2012 plans for Jesus Montero

This is from last week, but with the Winter Meetings it got overlooked. Anyway, Erik Boland of Newsday spoke with Yankees manager Joe Girardi last Wednesday and got some tentative plans out of the manager for rookie Jesus Montero. Here are the bullet points: Montero will not be guaranteed a roster spot, but the Yankees are planning ...

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Read: Dale Sveum’s Yankees Connection

Most Yankees fans don't remember Dale Sveum. Heck, I barely remember him and I must have watched somewhere around 90 percent of the Yankee games the year he donned the Pinstripes. He did play for them though, on that amazing 1998 squad, he played in just 30 games at first and third base posting a terrible ...

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Read: Yankees Cano was never much of a prospect

In an article that is hidden behind ESPN Insider's pay-wall, Kevin Goldstein discusses what kind of prospect, or non-prospect Robinson Cano was as a youngster. We've known that the Yankees tried to trade him quite a few times, most notable is the deal that would have had him included in the Alex Rodriguez trade. However this ...

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