New York Yankees

The 10-year, $275 million contract Alex Rodriguez signed in 2007 is one of the biggest mistakes in the history of the New York Yankees. The only good thing that can be said about it is that it has taught the Yankees precisely where they should draw the line when it comes to long-term contracts.

This will be it. This will be the year when the New York Yankees are finally undone by their age. Their collective geezerness will finally get the better of them.

Spring training has officially begun for the New York Yankees.

On Tuesday, pitchers and catchers reported down to Tampa, Fl to get prepared for the 2013 season.

Over the next month and a half, we will see coverage of the Yankees during their time in Tampa on the YES Network, MLB Network and ESPN.

There will be some new names and faces that will be wearing the pinstripes and some will even be looking to make the roster.

The New York Yankees have chosen to fill their designated hitter slot in the lineup with a combination of several low cost options in 2013, and who gets the bulk of at-bats will likely be decided in spring training.

It’s always a fun exercise: Suspend the rules of time and put together a starting lineup for a team based on that franchise’s best players.

The New York Yankees are Major League Baseball’s most accomplished franchise, with 27 World Series titles and 21 players or managers in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

So it should be easy to put a lineup together out of that group, right?

Mr. October’s most famous pinstripes are going on the auction block.

As first reported by Sports Collectors Daily, the jersey Reggie Jackson was wearing October 18, 1977, when he hit three homers in Game 6 of the World Series will be up for auction this spring. SCP Auctions will offer Jackson's size 44 No. 44 home white button-down in its catalog auction in April.

Pitchers and catchers report to spring training in just a few short days, and it's time for any rotation battles to be decided for all 30 major league clubs.

The New York Yankees have four of their five spots locked down. CC Sabathia, Hiroki Kuroda, Andy Pettitte and Phil Hughes will take the top four spots (in an order that's yet to be determined).

Competing for the No. 5 spot will be sophomore David Phelps and third-year pitcher Ivan Nova.

The Miami New Times report linking Alex Rodriguez to a new performance-enhancing drug scandal gave the court of public opinion grounds to hammer away at his already damaged reputation. Now, the New York Yankees star could be finishing the job himself, completely dest

There's yet another wrinkle in the Alex Rodriguez PED scandal, reports Teri Thompson, Michael O'Keeffe and Christian Red of the New York Daily News.

Alex Rodriguez really just doesn't get it.

It seems like it's never his fault and will never accept blame for the messes he has created in his professional career.