Topic: Joe Girardi
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A rainy regular season that carried into the playoffs has sent New York's pitching plans awry and left frustrated Yankees fans wondering why ace pitcher CC Sabathia had been consigned to the bench.Sabathia, a bulky 6-foot-7 inch workhorse ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Terry Francona, manager of the slumping Boston Red Sox, on Friday shrugged off reports that his job could be in jeopardy should the pre-season favorites fail to make the playoffs.Boston, the pre-season pick to reach the World Series ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Umpires blew a call on a home run ball that helped the slumping Kansas City Royals beat a New York Yankees team battling for top spot in the American League East, Major League Baseball (MLB) said on Thursday.The ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Yankees have decided six pitchers in their starting rotation is one too many, manager Joe Girardi said on Thursday."We feel we need to get it down to a five-man rotation and go with it," Girardi ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez has a slight cartilage tear in his right knee and may need surgery that would sideline him for a month, manager Joe Girardi told reporters Saturday.Rodriguez sat out Saturday's game against the ...
New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain has a torn ligament in his right elbow and likely will miss the remainder of the Major League Baseball season, Yankees manager Joe Girardi said Thursday.The extent of the 25-year-old right-hander's injury, which probably will require ...
Mariano Rivera, who has helped the New York Yankees win five World Series titles, has become the first pitcher to reach 1,000 games with the same Major League Baseball team."You have to be old to do that," a smiling Rivera said. "You've ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Yankees signed former Cy Young Award winner Bartolo Colon as an insurance policy before the season and the beefy right-hander paid a huge dividend with a brilliant 3-1 victory on Wednesday.Colon, 37, hitting 96 miles ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Yankees are $200 million underdogs in the eyes of handicappers picking the Boston Red Sox to be World Series champions this season, and that has lit a fire under some of the Bronx Bombers."Maybe we ...
The main factor that has landed Cooper on this list is the Astros impatient owner, Drayton McLane. If Cooper is going to save his job, he will need to find quality starting pitching for the Astros. The mere fact that Joe Girardi ...