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Mark Teixeira will play alongside Pettitte for Team USA in the WBC

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Andy Pettitte won't be the only Yankee in the World Baseball Classic. Mark Teixeira will join him as a member of Team USA in his first ever time participating in the WBC, according to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports. Robinson Cano and Francisco Cervelli will also play in the WBC as members of the Dominican Republic ...

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Where the 2012 Yankees got value and where they over spent

The Yankees spent over $200 million on their roster last year, but that money is only good if they got what they paid for. So using FanGraphs' value system I took a look at how the Yankees spent their money, where they spent wisely, where they broke even, and where they got ripped off to ...

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Cano and Teixeira win Gold Glove Awards

The Gold Glove winners were announced tonight and two Yankees, Robinson Cano and Mark Teixeira, took home some hardware. It was Cano's second Gold Glove and Teixeira's fifth and third with the Yankees. Russell Martin was also a finalist, but he lost out to Matt Wieters. The Gold Gloves have a pretty bad reputation these days. The ...

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Mark Teixeira wins his 1st Fielding Bible award

Everyone has known that Gold Gloves are a joke since 1999 when Rafael Palmeiro won one despite not even playing 30 games in the field that year. Since then there has been little distinction between a Gold Glove, supposedly given to the best fielder at a position, and the Silver Slugger, given to the best ...

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5 Yankees who need to perform in the playoffs or else

New York is very much a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately kind of town, but certain players, like Derek Jeter, will get a pass if they underperform in the playoffs while others will be under a big microscope. Here are five Yankees that will be under the most pressure to perform: Alex Rodriguez - A-Rod gained a reputation as a playoff choker ...

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Aceves may have given Teixeira a gift home run

Since returning from the DL, Mark Teixeira played in three games against the Red Sox and he went 1-for-12. That one was a home run off former Yankee and current Red Sox malcontent Alfredo Aceves. As it turns out, Teixeira thinks that Aceves might have been making it easy on him by throwing him only changeups ...

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Yankees getting Teixeira back Monday, but lose Nix

The Yankees will finally get Mark Teixeira back on Monday, but because this team is obligated to have some injured players Jayson Nix will miss at least the next 10-14 days with a Grade 1 hip flexor strain, according to Jack Curry of the YES Network. Teixeira has essentially missed the entire month of September with ...

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Teixeira gets positive results following simulated game

Mark Teixeira gave his injured calf its first real test yesterday when he participated in a simulated game at the Yankees complex down in Tampa. Afterward everyone was real positive with how it went. “He looked good, he ran about 75 to 80 percent,” minor league head Mark Newman told George King of the NY Post. ...

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Injury update: Teixeira to test his calf on Monday

Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira has begun taking some batting practice in the cage today and is scheduled to head down to Tampa on Monday to play in some instructional games at the team's complex, according to Chad Jennings of the Journal News. Teixeira has been out since the last week of August with a strained ...

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Teixeira at least another week away from a return

It's already been a full week since Mark Teixeira suffered a setback to his injured calf and it could be at least another week before he returns to action. "I don't think he's close to getting back here," Yankees GM Brian Cashman told Sirius XM radio. "I think we'll have a chance to get him back before ...

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