New York Yankees 2011
 

New York Yankees 2011

Spring Training is about 1 1/2 months away now. Yankees look like the Wild Card team on paper.



Trivia:
Who was the last Yankees player to wear uniform number 3 prior ro the club retiring it on June 13, 1948, in honor of Babe Ruth?

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I am guessing Cliff Mapes! Cant wait to wear my 2003 Marlins Championship hat at Yankee Stadium next week!

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Allie Clark :D

Here's hoping they get the pitching sorted out before spring training starts :)

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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner.

Congrats on the correct answer. Your prize is free unlimited access to the New York Yankees 2011 thread. :noon

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I really hope so also. There is nothing promising out there. Right now they have one guy in the rotation with guarenteed performance and that is CC. Hughes had a lot of wins last year but the offense bailed him out a lot. If AJ can get his head out of his butt maybe he will be productive.

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Yankees Quote for the Day:

"The very best characteristic a player can have, the strongest possible foundation for his success, is guts." ~ Yankees manager Miller Huggins

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icehog? :confused:

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Well, i'm hoping they can pick up a B grade starter somewhere to anchor the back end of the rotation. CC is money, Hughes is decent, AJ I wouldn't count on, Nova who knows, and Mitre sucks. We are in trouble if thats who we throw out opening day.

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Andy Pettitte is expected to advise the Yankees in the next couple of days if he will retire or play in 2011.

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Yankees Trivia:

Which graduate of Dartmouth College was the first Yankees thrid baseman to start an MLB All-Star game?

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Yankees had a player graduate from college, let alone an Ivy League school? :r :r :r

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Congrats to Nick Swisher who is being honored with the Thurmon Munson award. Also to be honored are former All-Star catcher Mike Piazza, current Mets outfielder Angel Pagan, Nets all-star guard Devin Harris and Olympic gold-medal-winning figure skater Evan Lysacek.

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Didn't Lou Gehrig graduate from Columbia?


Hey, Mac, I know there's a lot of Mets from Columbia too, but none of them went to school . . . of any sort.

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Come on. Cut the guy a break. Ragging on the Yankees is about as much fun as he can look forward to, year after year, as a Met's fan.:r

Not like he can expect them to win his Mets to win.:r

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If Pettitte retires there is a good chance the Yankees will go after Rafael Soriano to make the bullpen tighter.

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Lou went to Columbia, but did he graduate? I hate the Yanks but consider Lou one of (if not the) greatest of all time. Lou, Ty, Pete, Ted, and Jeter.

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Only a couple hours left to make guesses.

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I hope Pettitte remains. I know I despise the Yanks but hold a certain respect for many of their players. Pettitte is one of them.

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They really need him for the rotation. Right now they are going to need to score 1500 runs to make the playoffs.

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If you have the YES Network turn it on now!!

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The Yankees are showing interest in Jeremy Bonderman.

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Answer is Red Rolfe (1937)

No one guessed it so the prize will roll over to the next time.

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Yankees Fact:

Fritz Maisel is the only Yankees plaer to ever steal 50 or more bases in a season yet fail to score 100 runs. He accomplished the feat twice: 1914 and 1915.

January 5th Birthdays: Henry Cotto, Ron Kittle

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Ryan did you get a Yankees trivia calendar for Christmas?

If so, you're now on the hook for another 360 tidbits of Yankee's facts and fun! :D

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I did. :r

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Like a wise man once said..."Now you got toilet paper for the year!" :D

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Right now it looks that way. The Red Sox are very deep this year.

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just gotta stay healthy...

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I wish Pettitte would make up his mind. Then there is only one hole to fill in the rotation.

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Yup! ;s

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You think he comes back?

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Don't crown them yet!
A-Gon is a big addition, and I am not going to diminish his value, but let him prove his worth in the AL east first.
Lots more pressure now and they will pitch him different than in the NL.
The Crawford signing was one of Theo's worst.
He's a GOOD player, but a player who's main + attribute (speed) will be diminished playing left in Fenway.
Also if you watched any Red Sox baseball last year, the team MVP was Beltre!
Lester was brilliant last year and I thought Bucholtz was better, but he still hasn't pitched a full season.
Beckett is another year older and never made his money in the regular season.
And one of these years Papi won't be able to turn around his awful start.

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As a Reds fan, trust me when I say that A-Gon is NOT a big addition. He'll be a headache for the fans most of the year. He could be a great player but is on the DL a lot, goes into big-time slumps and his range is overrated.

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Perhaps, but you have to look at the whole line-up; they will be all mutually supporting, in that, until you get to the 8 and 9 spots, it'll be "pick your poison". Just who would you pitch around? The two weak spots, as I see it, are V-Tek and Scutaro, and they most likely will bat 8 and 9. Also important to remember is that they'll play 81 games in our little band-box in Boston; the wall giveth and the wall taketh away. If Crawford and Ellsbury bat toward the top of the line-up (as I suspect), imagine the base running possibilities.

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Yankees Trivia:

Who hold the Yankees record for the highest single-season batting average by a catcher?

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Varitek is a big hole, and Saltalamacchia can't throw or hit for beans. At least the Yanks have options with their catchers. Crawford got overpayed big time, but i'm happy Boston did it and not the Yanks :r

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TRIVIA ANSWER:
Bill Dickey in 1936 with a .362 average!!
Never saw him play but hall of famers can't be bad!!!

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The Rod Sux are very deep every year . . . and we all know in what. :r

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And we still wait on Pettitte. At least he is not pulling a Brett Favre and holding press conferences every 5 minutes.

Scott BorASS stated that the Yankees are the only team Soriano would be willing to play for and not close.

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Congrats on the correct answer. :noon You prize will be maing fun of REd Sox fans. :D

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Yankees Fact:
New York jerseys bore the nickname "YANKEES" across the chest in just four season in franchise history: 1927 through 1930.

Yankees Transactions:
1/7/1924 - The New York Yankees traded Elmer Smith and $50000 and a player to be named to Louisville (American Association) for Earle Combs.

January 7th birthdays:
Alfonso Soriano, Johnny Mize

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If I knew that was the prize, I would've tried harder. :D

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At least we overpay for young guys and not the geriatrics the Yankees overpay for. :D

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I guess you mean hot young rookies like Wakefield and Big Poopie. :r

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Wake is cheap, and Papi got the job done in '04 and '07.

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Crawford will be 37 yrs old at the end of his contract.
While this isn't ancient, his main + attribute is speed.
It should be the skill that deteriorates first. :sh

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:r
But this is '11.

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That doesn't necessarily mean that he'll be playing for the Sox by then.

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Last season he had 102 RBIs and an OBP of .370 as well as being an All Star. With a little more protection, he should do even better this season.

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:r Maybe he'll shorten that zero production streak down from 5 to 4 weeks :r

And you still don't have a catcher worth a damn :tu