The LoHud Yankees Blog

Our next Pinch Hitter is Bill Sullivan, a Vietnam veteran and former Lieutenant in the FDNY. Bill’s been a diehard Yankees fan since 1963, but wrote that his only highlight from that postseason was his favorite player, Mickey Mantle, going deep off Sandy Koufax. Bill wrote: “My greatest pleasure as a fan has been watching [...]

Welcome to Friday night. Or maybe it’s late enough to say, welcome to the weekend. Let’s wrap up this work week with a couple of links about the Yankees top pick last summer. Dante Bichette Jr. didn’t get overwhelmingly positive reviews on draft day, but he was an overwhelming success in his first professional season. [...]

Joe Girardi might have been stating the obvious today when he said he’d like to see the Yankees add a left-handed bat before spring training. At a charity event in Times Square, Girardi specifically discussed Johnny Damon,  Hideki Matsui and Raul Ibanez. “When you think about Raul Ibanez, he has had success wherever he has [...]

I’m a little late on this, but here’s the Associated Press story about Brian Cashman that began making the rounds last night. NEW YORK (AP) — A woman stalked and shook down New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, getting him to pay her $6,000 and demanding more by threatening to harm his reputation, prosecutors [...]

In the Yankee Stadium press box, I sit directly between Mark Feinsand and Marc Carig. Let’s just say they view advanced statistics … differently. And I am appropriately somewhere in the middle. I like advanced stats. I like that there are people out there trying to come up with defensive metrics that work, and I [...]

Our next Pinch Hitter is Matt Hunter, a senior philosophy major at Carleton College in Minnesota. Matt grew up in Northern California, but his dad is from New Jersey and raised Matt to be, “as much of a Yankees fan as any New Yorker.” Matt says he’s not sure what he wants to do after [...]

Joe Girardi is going to be in Times Square tomorrow morning, distributing Giants caps to benefit the  Children’s Alopecia Project. Here are the details. Giants fever is heating up all across the NYC metro area and New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi is set to join in on the party with the team one win away [...]

With Edwin Jackson and now Casey Kotchman off the market, we might as well take another look at what’s left on the free agent market. This is my second crack at the best team made entirely of players who don’t have one, and as you can see, the market is getting awfully thin. Lineup DH [...]

It seems Edwin Jackson is finally off the market after agreeing to a deal with the Nationals. Jackson seemed to be the top free agent still available, and now I guess that title falls to Roy Oswalt. The Yankees clearly haven’t been in the market for a starting pitcher since making a pair of deals on [...]

The ballgame experience is about so much more than the game itself. It’s the people you’re with, the food you eat and whether you were in the bathroom for that three-run homer in the seventh. It’s the weather, the atmosphere and the trip to and from the stadium. It’s the full experience, and all of [...]