The LoHud Yankees Blog

This is another personal favorite from our Pinch Hitters series. Mark Boynton is a 44-year-old who says he discovered baseball and the Yankees when his family moved to New York from Colorado in 1975. Mark’s wife is from Trinidad, and they live in Winston-Salem, N.C., but Mark wrote that some of their happiest memories have [...]

Our next Pinch Hitter is familiar to the series. Jesse Rosenthal grew up as a Yankees fan living in Massachusetts. “Since I needed something to keep me busy in the off-season,” he wrote. “I started following football and became a Patriots fan. People just don’t get that, but what can I do?” Jesse has lived [...]

Our next Pinch Hitter is 31-year-old Robert Tusso, who grew up a diehard Yankees fan in Chatham, N.J., but spent the past nine years living in Flagstaff, AZ. Robert works as a hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey. He studies the Colorado River at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, which means frequent raft trips [...]

Up next in our Pinch Hitter series is Ed Conde, the head of the federal government’s Alcohol Countermeasures Laboratory in Cambridge, MA. He was born in the Bronx and grew up in New York, so that explains his Yankees ties while working just outside of Boston. For his post, Ed took a look at past [...]

Let’s face it, folks. Not too many people are thinking about baseball tonight. The Super Bowl is the Super Bowl, so unless the Yankees trade away Derek Jeter, they’re probably not getting the headlines tomorrow morning. Speaking of tomorrow, I’m supposed to take one week off before spring training, so that’ll be starting tomorrow. The [...]

This morning, Stanford Williams’ gave us a Pinch Hitter post about all of the things he’s learned from the Yankees. As a follow-up, here are some of the things I still haven’t learned about the Yankees heading into next season. Pitchers and catchers report in exactly two weeks, and these questions still stand. Who’s going [...]

Our next Pinch Hitter, Sanford Williams, is a 44-year-old Yankees fan who has been married to his wife Anastasia for 23 years. He calls her “an incredible woman,” and the two have three children. One is a student at the University of Virginia Law School, one is an undergraduate at UVA, and the youngest is [...]

February 19 Pitchers and catchers report to spring training. Joe Girardi addresses the media in his pre-camp press conference. February 20 First official workout for pitchers and catchers. February 25 First full-squad workout with position players. February 27 Spring training photo day. Players love this. March 2 First exhibition game vs. the University of South [...]

From the Associated Press… NEW YORK — The wife of New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman has filed divorce papers, a day after prosecutors charged a woman with stalking him and extorting money over an extramarital affair. Mary Cashman filed the paperwork Friday in Stamford, Conn. Her lawyer didn’t immediately return a phone message [...]

In this morning’s Pinch Hitter post, Bill looked at the bigger picture. And with prospects, there’s always a bigger picture. A young player has long-term value as a future big leaguer, and he has immediate value as a trade chip. It’s up to the organization to decide which value is greater. But with spring training [...]