The Yankees have announced their Triple-A affiliate will play its home games in six different locations in 2012: Rochester, Batavia, Syracuse, Lehigh Valley, Buffalo, and Pawtucket. This is due to renovation of PNC Field, which will take the entire 2012 season. The Mets not only rejected the Yankees request to play at Bears & Eagles Stadium in [...]

Last night the SNY booth was discussing old ballparks and it gave me the idea to reach out to my Twitter and Facebook followers to ask what old ballpark would they have liked to watch a game. Here are the responses I received: Ebbetts Field Polo Grounds Crosley Field Jarry Park Original Yankee Stadium Astrodome [...]

Each week we take a look at what is going on with independent baseball. This week I opine about the 2012 home of the Scranton Yankees, and whether Provident Bank Park in Rockland County would be the perfect fit. Last week, Robert Pimpsner of Gotham Baseball Magazine discussed the possibility of the Scranton Yankees playing their 2012 [...]

Today is Labor Day and it’s the unofficial end of summer. School starts tomorrow, the NFL starts next Sunday, and there will be no more long weekends in the Hamptons. Should baseball end as well? Longtime journalist Frank Deford believes so. Last week, he wrote a piece for NPR where he proposes a 140 game scheduled and [...]

Check out this blurb from a piece by Andy McCullough in the Star Ledger about Bobby Parnell: Few Mets have experienced patches of bad luck like him this season. He possesses the second-highest batting average on balls in play (.343), which measures how often a hit is recorded when the hitter makes contact. The average for a [...]

Tonight I am headlined by longtime sports writer Phil Pepe. Phil has been a friend to the show over the years, and he will discuss his latest book “1961*: The Inside Story of the Maris-Mantle Home Run Chase.” Pepe had a firsthand look at the ’61 Yanks and the historic home run race as he [...]

I was in attendance last night for the Brooklyn Cyclones/Aberdeen Ironbirds game at MCU Park in Coney Island. I decided to take in the game as a fan, electing to avoid the chaos an event such as “Angel Pagan Bobble Head Night” creates when you have tons of mainstream media in the building. Taking in [...]

The New York- Penn League will play its All Star Game next Tuesday, August 17th, at Richmond County Bank Ballpark in Staten Island. Of course, that is the home of the local Staten Island Yankees, whose selections include pitchers Mikey O’Brien, Preston Clairborne and Chase Whitley, shortstop Jose Mojica and outfielder Eduardo Sosa. Staten Island [...]

The NY- Penn League short season opened up on Friday night. Of course, that means we can talk about the Brooklyn Cyclone and Staten Island Yankees for the next couple of months. NYBD contributor Jed Weisberger writes for MILB.com and did a preview of players to watch this season. Some of the names he mentioned [...]

The Tampa and Staten Island Yankees both won their respective league championships last night. Staten Island, thanks to five scorless innings of relief by Benjamin Watkins, defeated the Mahoning Valley Scrappers by the score of 5-2 and the series 2-1. The Yankees broke a 2-2 tie in the eighth with three runs. CF Zoilo Almonte [...]

Thought I would give a quick update on the remaining local affiliates that are in the MILB playoffs. – Staten Island lost to Mahoning Valley 3-2 in 11 innings. Chun-Hsiu Chen hit a walk off homer for the scrappers. Jimmy Paredes and Deangelo Mack had two hits apiece for Staten Island. Tonight is the decisive [...]

The Staten Island Yankees advanced to the NY-Penn League Championship by defeating the Lowell Spinners 5-1. Kelvin Perez got the win striking out 8 in five innings. On the offensive end SI got two out RBI hits from Jimmy Paredes, Deangelo Mack, Luke Murton, and Neil Mechill. Staten Island will face Mahoning Valley Scrappers at [...]

Wanted to take a moment to update those who haven’t been paying attention to the MILB playoffs for the local teams. – The Brooklyn Cyclones were swept 2-0 to Mahoning Valley. Brooklyn had great pitching all year, including a no-hitter by Brandon Moore, but their offense left much to be desired. – Tonight is a [...]

The NY Times ran an interesting piece yesterday about the attendance of both NYC minor league teams. This year the Brooklyn Cyclones dropped about 230 fans a game this season while the Staten Island Yankees have seen an increase of about 15% to an average of 6,000 per game. To put it in perspective the [...]

The Hudson Valley Renegades, affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays, will be the first professional sports team to use Twitter to broadcast a game this Sunday August 23rd against the Staten Island Yankees. According to Hudson Valley’s official website, “The event will run on Livestream’s Twitcam platform and will be sponsored by MyMobileTeam. The broadcast [...]