New York Yankees

Most of the articles I've published about the Yankees' offseason plans have been based off newspaper articles and rumors written on baseball Web sites.

This will be my first article making a possible suggestion about a player the Yankees haven't looked into yet.

Before, I had written about the Yankees talking to Nick Johnson about possibly being the team's designated hitter for 2010.

While that is happening, the Yankees are still looking into the possibility of bringing back Johnny Damon for 2010 to play as the left fielder and maybe even a part-time DH.

I touched on this topic in Monday's post , as I wondered what the Yankees should do with the left field and designated hitter positions. My line of thinking was that the Yankees don't need to bring Johnny Damon back when there are similar options available at a much more affordable price.

“How are the Red Sox any better than the Yankees?” It’s a question I hear often when I walk the streets of Cleveland dressed in Boston paraphernalia.

Most of my fellow Indians fans see the two big-market clubs as equally evil; as long as they both buy our players and beat us in the playoffs, it doesn’t matter who is worse.

Knowing that trying to convert my peers to dual fandom would be futile, I usually respond by explaining to my questioner why the Red Sox are the lesser of two evils.

Most athletes have good luck charms and superstitions.

Lucky socks. Not changing their underwear. Rally monkeys. Beards during playoffs.

But Alex Rodriguez had a lucky charm and superstition in one, according to Yankees fans anyway.

Kate Hudson was the “thing” that made A-Rod great in the 2009 season, helping him lead the Yankees to win the World Series.

It's been a busy Monday with pitchers moving around the league.

Earlier this afternoon, it was reported that the Red Sox and John Lackey agreed to a five year deal worth around $85 million dollars.

Lackey was in negotiations with teams like the Yankees, Mets, Mariners, and Rangers among others, but now, he lands in Boston.

It's a solid move for the Red Sox, who get a top pitcher and a playoff-experienced pitcher to add to a rotation with Josh Beckett and Jon Lester at the top of it already. Lackey probably will be the number two pitcher in that rotation.

I thought he was better than this. I thought that this time it would be more about the team, more about the fans, and more about the prestige of putting on the Yankee Pinstripes.

I was wrong.

With Johnny Damon, no matter what he said in November after helping the Yankees win the World Series, it is still only about the money.

And that is just plain stupid of Damon.

So far this MLB off-season, the teams in New York have been very busy.  The Yankees' move this week may have been the biggest.

This year, we had a replay of the 1950 classic, the last time the Phillies and Yankees met for the World Championship, with both teams showing off their shiny new ballparks. 

If you were looking to choose your greatest ever Yankee lineup, based on single-season offensive performances, where would you start?

For a team that has 15 Hall of Famers and dozens more legends, it is no easy task.

Were Joe McCarthy's Yankees from the mid-to-late 1930s superior to the players that Casey Stengel managed in the early 1950s?

How do today's stars—Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez—compare to the heroes of decades past—names like Phil Rizutto, Babe Ruth, and Yogi Berra?

Is power more important than speed? Is the past worth more the present?

This year's winter meetings seemed to be a lot more active than last year's, didn't they?

This may have had a lot to do with its location.

In 2008, the event was held in Vegas. This surely presently all sorts of obstacles in terms of getting actual work done.

I'm not sure Scott Boras ever ducked out of Spearmint Rhino long enough to hold his annual messianic press conference. And then there were the rumors about the Hendricks Brothers, a young redhead, and a snapper fish.