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Yankees’ Arbitration History, or Why Rick Cerrone Was Ungrateful and Don Mattingly Couldn’t Play Little Jack Armstrong

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Business and Finance, Yankee History, Yankees, tagged , , , , on November 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Last night was the deadline for major league teams to offer salary arbitration to their ranked (type-A and type-B) free agents, and a surprising 35 of the 64 eligible players were extended the invitation. The most active teams were the Rays and Blue Jays, who respectively offered seven and four players arbitration. With draft picks […]

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Bless That Boy: Sparky’s Career Takes Him from Anonymity to the Hall of Fame; Almost Became Yankees Skipper in 1980

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Nostalgia, Yankee History, Yankees, tagged , , , on November 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Just days after the news that Sparky Anderson had entered a hospice, the legendary manager passed away at the age of 76. George Lee “Sparky” Anderson was a career minor leaguer who played in only one major league season with the Phillies in 1959. At his best considered a poor man’s Eddie Stanky, Anderson never lived […]

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The Diplomacy of Saying Goodbye: Yanks Would be Wrong to Ignore Sentimentality in Dealing With Aging Stars

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankees, tagged , , , , on October 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Earlier in the week, we suggested that Joe Girardi’s legacy as Yankee manager would depend on how he shepherds the Yankees’ core of aging veterans through the twilight of their respective careers. Making the task even more challenging for Girardi is that he played alongside these legends during the primes of their careers. As a result, you […]

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