I mentioned Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui, Vladimir Guerrero, and Jorge Vazquez on Saturday as possible options for the Yankees Designated Hitter position. Newsday’s Ken Davidoff adds Jack Cust and Raul Ibanez to the mix as their agents have contacted the Yankees. The reps for Jack Cust, Vladimir Guerrero & Raul Ibanez have contacted the #Yankees [...]

Dave Winfield was on ESPN Radio earlier this week with Brandon Tierney and Jody McDonald. They were talking about the Mets and Yankees, specifically how Winfield coexisted with Reggie Jackson. One story that I never heard before was about how Graig Nettles decked Jackson, knocking him out on one punch, after the 1981 playoff series [...]

In one of the silliest ideas I have read, maybe in my lifetime, Tom Van Riper of Forbes suggested how Bud Selig could solve the Mets and Dodgers financial situations: Hopefully Bud Selig was watching, because the obvious solution to his Dodgers-Mets problem was right there on his television screen. Really, it’s so obvious that [...]

Another two hours of radio tonight. I kick off the night talking with former big league pitching coach Rick Peterson. Although Rick is not on the field this season he is working with two great entities, Bloomberg Sports and 3P Sports, to advance the art of keeping pitchers healthy and effective. I will talk to [...]

Everyone knows Rick Peterson for his time as the pitching coach with Oakland, Milwaukee, and the Mets. What many do not realize is that Peterson comes from a baseball family, and also was a minor league pitcher himself. Before he was known as “The Jacket” by New York fans, Peterson pitched parts of eight seasons [...]

Former Mets, Oakland, and Brewers pitching coach Rick Peterson has been on WFAN twice this month. Both times he informed the host that over one billion dollars has been spent on pitching the last decade. Of that total, about $400 million wound up on the disabled list. That’s almost a 40 percent. With that failure [...]

I have the same bat speed and still use a 36 lenght 35 oz batless than a minute ago via TweetCasterJose CansecoJoseCanseco Sandy alderson please give me a chance to play first base ,even just a tryoutless than a minute ago via TweetCasterJose CansecoJoseCanseco I don’t need to explain again why I think Sandy Alderson [...]

Buster Olney of ESPN believes MLB should go back to the pre 1969 format and just have two leagues: The American League and the National League (subscription required). Under his plan the top five teams in each league would get playoff berths. This would negate some of the yearly advantage that big market teams like [...]

I found this article at Beyond the Boxscore that tracks time between pitches using Pitch f/X. They track the fastest and slowest individual pitchers, as well as team totals. No surprise (especially to Joe West) the Yankee and Red Sox are the slowest workers in all of baseball taking 22.8 and 23.3 seconds respectively. The [...]

Sandy Alderson has been the rumored front runner for the Mets vacant GM position for the last couple of weeks. Hearing that a second interview will come this week fuels speculation the organization has made their choice. I believe Alderson will bring discipline, vision, and respect to an organization that’s lack all three for quite [...]

Thus far we have taken a deeper look at John Hart and Logan White here at NYBD, so today I decided to look at the latest “hot” candidates on the Mets list: long time baseball executive Sandy Alderson and White Sox’s Assistant GM Rick Hahn. Sandy Alderson In my opinion, hiring Alderson would signal the [...]

After watching the three game series between the Mets and Marlins at Hiram Bithorn Stadium I wondered if San Juan would be a viable location for a professional baseball team. The NBA and NFL talk about expansion into other regions all the time. Baseball has made it foray into Canada and played series in San [...]

One of baseball’s stupidest tropes is the magic number for the Hall of Fame. 300 wins and your in the Hall of Fame. Don’t and you’re most likely not—especially of late. Nothing else gets taken into account. For instance, this week, on ESPN’s Mike and Mike radio show, they broached the subject of Jamie Moyer [...]

I wasn’t going to weigh in on the A-Rod/Dallas Braden fiasco, but since we received record hits for Frank’s piece yesterday, its obvious people are interested in the conversation. If you didn’t read it, Frank gave historical perspective about situations where the exact same thing happened. Throughout the day people were trying to find the [...]

In case you missed it, there was an incident in the Yankees / A’s game yesterday afternoon during the top of the 6th inning that has caused a bit of a stir throughout the blogosphere and sports talk radio. The incident in question happened in the sixth inning when ARod took the ”short route” by jogging over the mound while on the [...]