Another former Yankee joins us on the Sunday Hot Stove as Moose Skowron headlines the show. Moose played with the Yankees from 1954 to 1962, winning 4 World Series. He talks about the great Yankees teams, his World Series highlights, and his role as a community liaison with the Chicago White Sox. I will recap [...]

I have been invited to the Bloomberg invitation-only event in New York today where they will give the media a sneak peek at the consumer product, and get feedback before it goes to market. Bloomberg Sports believes this product will be a fun, innovative, state-of-the art tool that will grow both the fantasy baseball market [...]

If there is one thing that we can take from the PECOTA rankings, it’s the fact the AL East might be a three team dogfight this year. In just a week the renowned Baseball Prospectus projections went from the Rays winning the AL East, to being on the outside looking in. Did George Steinbrenner’s inner [...]

All in all, it was a good offseason week for the Mets, Johan Santana’s return to the mound and the re-signing of Fernando Tatis are positive developments. Santana gives his team all he has as the ace of the staff, while Tatis, at this point, ceratainly appreciates having the opportunity to wear a major-league uniform [...]

This town has seen great catchers through the years. Yogi Berra, Thurman Munson, Gary Carter, Jorge Posada, and Mike Piazza are just a few that come to mind. Roy Campanella is always one that I seem to forget. Maybe it’s because his career ended in 1957, or that so many great players donned the tools [...]

I didn’t have a chance to watch Omar Minaya on “Mets Hot Stove” this past Thursday, but the blogosphere did a great job recapping the conversation. As always, host Kevin Burkhardt asked the right questions, and didn’t shy away from delving into the difficult territory. The best part, for me, was when Burkhardt followed up [...]

The Met decided to pass up on Ben Sheets, but there still is another high reward starter on the market: Chien Ming Wang.  We talked about Wang earlier in the off season. NYBD contributor Frank Russo has been ahead of the curve on the Wang situation. As early as July he talked about the Yankees [...]

I wanted to see the consensus of NYBD readers and if they approve of the Yankees decision to move on from Johnny Damon. Do You Mind the Yanks Let Damon Walk? (polls)

Thursday morning I emailed a good friend of mine who just so happens to be an executive with an NL West team, asking him his thoughts on both Randy Winn and the Johnny Damon situation. Below is his reply.  “Randy is a good, serviceable, dependable and reliable player who is on the down side of the hill. He’s [...]

Earlier today Bob’s Blitz passed along some news regarding Mike Francesa. Apparently there is thought the “Sports Pope” mistakenly used one of the seven deadly words on radio. Mike, for all his faults, never goes the indecent route. I am sure this is much to do about nothing, but seeing someone as arrogant as Francesa [...]

I have been saying for a couple of weeks that I felt there was a growing rift between Scott Boras and the Yankees. After reading Joel Sherman’s postmortem on the situation, there is something to be concerned about. Relationships are part of the negotiations process and shouldn’t be discounted. Fortunately, this won’t impact the Yankees [...]

According to Andrew Marchand of ESPN 1050, who made an appearance on ESPN’s Baseball Tonight, John Smoltz is not interested in pitching for the Mets. Marchand believes that Smoltz’s reason not to pitch for the Mets is due to Tom Glavine’s experience in New York and how the Mets organization is structured. Really did not [...]

While much of the offseason complaining has been focused on what the Mets haven’t done, or moves made that don’t help the team, it appears they are close to a decision that does positively benefit the 2010 roster- bringing back Fernando Tatis. Tatis, due to his unfortunate tendency to hit into double plays last season, [...]

Courtesy of the guys at themikefrancesa.com Iceberg ahead!

A while back I had Dayn Perry of Foxsports on my WGBB show. We were, at the time, talking about his newly released book “Winners: How Good Teams Become Great Ones.” Dayn grew up a Cardinals fan, and we talked about how winning in the modern game becomes very difficult with a team that lacks [...]