Maybe you can blame it on the team’s failure to land Cliff Lee, or maybe it’s the Yankees being the Yankees. Despite the reason, the team still has $20 million in the 2011 budget, according to Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated. That number is after the fact the team has committed to a three-year, $35 [...]
01/14/11
The Texas Rangers are on the verge of making a five or six-year offer to free agent Cliff Lee, according to the New York Posts’ George A. King III. Texas is hoping that the absence of a state tax and the proximity of Texas to Lee’s Arkansas home could be strong enough selling points to [...]
12/01/10
Nobody knows where Cliff Lee will be pitching for the 2011 season. Currently, the front-runners appears to be the New York Yankees Yankees and the Texas Rangers with wild cards that include the Los Angeles Angels and Washington Nationals.
Lee has previouly said that he would love to be a part of the Rangers in 2011. [...]
11/08/10
If only the New York Yankees acquired Cliff Lee. In a perfect world that would have happened, and the Yankees would have the flexibility to move Phil Hughes back to the bullpen and relieve Joba Chamberlain of the eighth-inning duties. Unfortunately for Joe Girardi and Brian Cashman, it isn’t a perfect world and Lee is [...]
07/13/10
Having committed to Phil Hughes in rounding out their starting rotation, it appears that New York’s front office doesn’t at all foresee Joba Chamberlain as a starter going forward. When asked if Chamberlain might crack the starting rotation next year, Yankees’ top scout Billy Eppler replied “Um… I wouldn’t consider that likely, no.” [...]
03/28/10