The first release numbers for All-Star Game balloting was released yesterday for the National League and four Mets are leading in the yearly popularity contest. Jose Reyes, David Wright, Paul Lo Duca, and Carlos Beltran lead at their respective positions, with Beltran as the leading vote-getter in the National League across all positions. Reyes and Wright made their first appearances at the "Midsummer Classic" last season, while Lo Duca is a four-time All Star and......

Baseball has a wacky transaction system. Yesterday the Yankees offered Bernie Williams arbitration, but only because they knew he would decline it. Why the apparent waste of time? Because without the offer, the Yankees would have lost negotiating rights to Bernie and if Bernie had accepted he would have been in line for a salary near ten million dollars for 2006. So, the Yankees and Bernie have until January 8th to make a deal. Even......

It was a season of lows and highs from an 11-19 start to 95 wins and a playoff spot the Yankees gave their fans a story with many twists and turns in 2005. There was the emergence of Robinson Cano and Chien-Ming Wang and the painful decline of Bernie Williams. In the end, the Yankees couldn’t keep the momentum they had built in September going and fell to the Angels in five games. The......

The annual interleague series have meant much always meant much more to the Mets than they have to the Yankees, and they’ve lost some luster since both the Yankees beat the Mets in the 2000 World Series. Until then, the series had regularly pitted playoff-contending teams against each other, but the Mets dropped off after their 2000 pennant. Finally, the Mets seem to be on the up. When the Mets’ ability goes up, so does......

For the past few weeks, Yankees Manager, Joe Torre, maintained that his team needed to get back to .500 and things would build from there. After an 11-19 start, that day seemed far away, but thanks to an eight game winning streak, the Yankees have achieved Torre’s first step. With their 6-4 victory over the Oakland A’s, the Yankees have evened their record at 19-19 and can now resume their regularly scheduled pennant drive. Tino......

Mike Mussina led the way Friday night pitching seven, strong innings to pace the Yankees to a 9-4 victory over Oakland. Mussina ran into trouble in the third inning, when the first to Oakland batters reached base, but he escaped with the help of a great double play turned by Robinson Cano and Derek Jeter. Cano has impressed the Yankees with his defense and has recently started to hit, going 3-4 Friday with two doubles......

It is an overused baseball axiom, but its’ truth cannot be denied; pitching wins championships. A week ago, the Yankee pitching staff was a mess, now it has turned in five straight quality starts, the latest coming from rookie, Chien-Ming Wang, who pitched seven and a third innings of solid baseball as the Yankees beat the Mariners 7-4. The victory was a season-high fourth in a row and brought the Yankee record to 15-19. Tino......

The Yankees finally took a step in the right direction this weekend, shutting out the Oakland A’s 6-0 and winning their first series at home since they took two of three from Boston to start the season. Much-maligned Kevin Brown pitched seven shutout innings a day after Mike Mussina pitched the first complete-game shutout for the Yankees in nearly two years. Alex Rodriguez, Tino Martinez and Jorge Posada all had home runs, and for two......

It has never been this bad. Under Joe Torre’s leadership, the Yankees had never fallen to six games below .500; that all changed Wednesday night as the Yankees lost to Tampa Bay 11-8. For the second straight game, the Yankee pitching was abysmal, spotting the Devil Rays a six run lead, too big a margin for the Yankee bats to recover from. Rookie, Sean Henn, lasted only into the third inning and was victimized by......

It was beginning to seem like the Yankees didn’t work weekends. After dropping two straight games to Texas, the Yankees had compiled a 2-7 record on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Desperately needing to salvage a win, the Yankees turned to their imported ace, Randy Johnson, and he delivered. Johnson pitched the way the Yankees envisioned he would when they acquired him, giving up three hits and one run in the Yankees’ 11-1 triumph. With Jaret......

Monday Afternoon, the Yankees watched the Red Sox receive their World Series rings and then watched as the Red Sox ran circles around them. For the second game in a row, the Yankees looked listless as they succumbed to the Red Sox 8-1. Tim Wakefield continued his mastery of the Yankees, giving up only one run in seven innings by fooling the Yankee hitters with his knuckleball. The Yankee offense collected only five hits total.......