According to Jack Curry and Sam Borden, the Yankees have traded reliever Edwar Ramirez to the Texas Rangers for cash considerations.

Ramirez was designated for assignment when the club signed right-hander Chan Ho Park last week. Ramirez, 28, posted a 5.73 ERA and a uncharacteristic 1.22 K/BB ration in 22 innings for the Yankees before a demotion t Scranton. He went on to post a 3.18 ERA and 3.88 K/BB ratio in 59 Triple-A innings. He’ll compete for a bullpen job with the Rangers, but he will likely spend the season with the Oklahoma RedHawks.

The old Yankee Stadium had it’s share of historic moments, both sports and non-sports related. From the Pope to Giants football, many non-baseball events took place in the House that Ruth Built. Now it looks like the New Yankee Stadium will have a few of it’s own.

In 2010, Yankee Stadium will host the inaugural New Era Pinstripe Bowl on December 30th, 2010. The event, sponsored by New Era, will feature a game between a big east team with the third-best conference  and the Big 12 team with the sixth best record (that is, after removing any participants in the BCS Bowl).

“We’re very excited to be hosting the Pinstripe Bowl,” Yankees managing partner Hal Steinbrenner ..read more

Alex Rodriguez has been summoned to speak to federal investigators about Dr. Anthony Galea, a Canadian doctor who is being charged with numerous crimes after his assistant, Mary Anne Catalano, was caught crossing the border with HGH. Any story with Arod in the headline will garner significant attention but this story is of little importance to Yankee Fans. Compared to last Spring Training, this latest revelation is about as important as your grade school GPA. But, as with any story involving Mr. Rodriguez and performance enhancing drugs, the press has latched onto it and it has been circulating around different sports websites and the Associated Press for a few weeks now.

The article containing Galea’s ..read more

According to Rob Gillies of the AP, the doctor under investigation in connection to Alex Rodriguez said he treated, but only prescribed him anti-imflammatories and not HGH.

Dr. Anthony Galea also told The Associated Press an assistant who was stopped at the U.S.-Canadian border in Buffalo, N.Y., last year was carrying only a minuscule amount of HGH—which Galea said was for his own use. The doctor reiterated that he has never given the drug to an athlete.

“I only brought enough for her to do two injections into me because I was away for two nights,” said Galea, who believes authorities and the media have exaggerated the accusations involving him ..read more

Let’s take a look at the potential for run scoring in this year’s version of the Yankees lineup. We’ve done this in the past, even a couple of times this offseason, but now that spring has started and we have a better idea of what their lineup will look like let’s do it again.

For this lineup projection I’ve used CHONE projections as well as Baseball Musings’ lineup analysis tool.

Here is the line the lineup I see the Yankees going with on opening day:

Derek Jeter – SS Nick Johnson – DH Mark Teixeira – 1B Alex Rodriguez – 3B Robinson Cano – 2B Jorge Posada – C Curtis Granderson – CF Nick Swisher – ..read more

Nick Johnson returned to the Yankees lineup today as the DH and went 0-for-2 with a walk and told reporters after the game that “Things feel fine. No grabbing. No nothing. I loosened up before. Felt nothing.”

That’s good news for the Yankees who no doubt cringed when they heard that he tweaked his back last week. It might not have been a big deal, but it was a painful reminder that Johnson has a brutal injury history. People, myself included, even said that Yankees general manager probably questioned himself about passing on Johnny Damon so cavalierly, even if it was just for a second.

It seemed like a ..read more

According to George King of the NY Post, after seeing the team doctor yesterday, Yankees backup catcher Francisco Cervelli plans to meet with a neurologist this afternoon. Cervelli is recovering from a concussion he sustained after being hit by a pitch in the head the other day.

“I talked to him and he said he felt good,” manager Joe Girardi said. “After he sees the neurologist, he can do some light stuff at the ballpark. (Today) is a big day for him. I want to hear what the neurologist has to say before making a decision.”

The thought is that it won’t be too long until Cervelli returns to ..read more

The Yankees drafted Ian Kennedy in the first round of the 2006 draft and by the end of the 2007 season he not only pitching in the majors, but over three starts he was pitching brilliantly.

He pitched so well in fact that it earned him a spot in the 2008 rotation coming out of spring training. Kennedy struggled in the big leagues that year though and was sent back down to the minors. The Yankees still had high hopes for him though and called him back up in August, but after just two bad innings and a few of the wrong things said to the press after the game it seemed like the ..read more

Young arms seem more important today than ever and the Yankees have tried very hard to take care of their young arms, specifically Joba Chamberlain – I’m talking about the Joba Rules.

But have they all been for nothing? It was a question Bernadette Pasley poised on her blog Lady Batting recently:

Joba Chamberlain was on an innings limit last year to preserve his young arm. This year, assuming he wins the 5th starter’s job, he’ll have no innings limit.

What if he doesn’t win the job?

I was all for the way they treated Joba last season. I had no problem with them having him pitch three innings here and four ..read more

In an article in the Bergin Record, columnist Bob Klapisch asked former Yankee Darryl Strawberry who he thought would win in a series, the ‘86 Mets or the ‘09 Yankees. Here is a small part of the article:

1986 Mets vs. 2009 Yankees? “Doc would’ve destroyed them. We would’ve beaten them. They’re a great team, but we wouldn’t have been intimidated. We could hit, we could pitch and we could definitely fight.”

Strawberry meant no disrespect toward the Bombers, to whom he owes the second half of his career. And to be technical about it, Darryl knows the ’86 Gooden wasn’t nearly as overpowering as the ’85 edition, which skews his prediction. But ..read more

Here is a recap of the past week at Bronx Baseball Daily:

Here are a couple of things to note from this afternoon’s 9-1 loss to the Blue Jays