Tag Archives: Curtis Granderson

Yankees considering Granderson in left, Gardner in center

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese

Curtis Granderson finished dead last among all center fielders with a negative-17.8 UZR this season. Even if you don't believe that he was the worst center fielder in baseball, anybody paying attention could see that he consistently took bad routes, got late jumps, and cost the Yankees quite a bit of runs with his poor ...

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Poll results: Who BBD readers want to see stay and go

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese

I ran a poll after the Yankees were eliminated to see which players people wanted to see stay with the Yankees to 2013 and which people wanted to run out of town. For the most part the answers were predictable, but there were a few shockers. Here are the results: ...Read more Alex Rodriguez: 63% of you want ...

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Yankees exercise options for Cano, Granderson, and Aardsma

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese
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To the surprise of no one, the Yankees have officially exercised their options for Robinson Cano, Curtis Granderson, and David Aardsma, according to Mark Feinsand of the NY Daily News. Cano and Granderson's options were both worth $15 million each while Aardsma's is worth just $500K. This leaves just Rafael Soriano as a player with a ...

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Yankees unlikely to trade Curtis Granderson this offseason

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese

As the summer went on and Nick Swisher outperformed Curtis Granderson it got a lot of fans thinking that if the Yankees are going to have to lose one, why not re-sign Swisher and trade Granderson instead? Then the offseason happened and people weren't in such a rush to see the Yankees keep Swisher, but a ...

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Yankees sending Curtis Granderson to an eye specialist

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese

It's hard to explain Curtis Granderson's huge drop off from the 2011 season to the 2012 season, but the Yankees have an idea of what it might be. Granderson will see an eye specialist as some within the Yankees organization believes that he could be having trouble with his eyes, according to Mark Feinsand and Bill ...

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Yankees will pick up Granderson’s option

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese

Despite Curtis Granderson's drop off from a year ago and his struggles in the postseason, the Yankees will pick up his $13 million option for next season, according to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports. Granderson had a truly great year in 2011 when he hit .262/.364/.552 and played a strong center field, but he had a ...

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A-Rod and Granderson still on the bench

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese

The rain may have forced the Yankees and Tigers to delay Game 4 of the ALCS, but it didn't do anything to get Joe Girardi to put benched stars Alex Rodriguez or Curtis Granderson back in the lineup. “It’s not like anything’s changed overnight,” Girardi told Chad Jennings of the Journal News. “You look at what ...

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A-Rod benched again with Granderson this time

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese

Down 0-3 in the ALCS, the Yankees season is on the line tonight and manager Joe Girardi has decided to once again bench his highest paid slugger, Alex Rodriguez, along with center fielder Curtis Granderson. That means that Nick Swisher is back in the lineup and Eric Chavez and Brett Gardner will once again be in ...

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What’s wrong with the Yankees?

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese

The Yankees came out of the All-Star break the same way they went into it, winning lots of games, but unfortunately after they took six of seven games they haven't been the same since. From July 19th, the start of a four game series against Oakland, they have been 19-24 and looked awful doing it. But ...

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Granderson riding the bench with mild hamstring tendinitis

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Rob Abruzzese

Holy injuries, Batman. They keep piling up in the Bronx with the latest victim being Yankees center fielder Curtis Granderson. The Grandy-man hasn't played an entire game since Friday after he suffered a hamstring injury. He went in for a MRI which showed no damage and just mild tendinitis. It was enough to knock him out ...

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