If Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman completes a deal, Burnett’s torturous career with the Yankees will come to an end. He will join a legion of failed pitching acquisitions in recent Yankee lore that includes such names as Carl Pavano, Kevin Brown,...

One morning, while eating Cheerios at the kitchen table, I discovered your column. Royals’ All-Star Mike Sweeney got into a fight with then-Tigers’ pitcher Jeff Weaver and you shared the inside scoop with all of us. Towards the end of yet another...

Remember the lengths Girardi and Cashman have gone to protect and defend Burnett. If they want to have any chance of trading him at some point, they will have to keep running him out there. They will not be interested in taking on another bad contract...

Now they trust someone else’s development work? This reeks of Jeff Weaver for Ted Lilly with Noesi likely to be as valuable as Pineda next year. Now Pineda gets a rotation slot while Hughes and Joba mop up in the pen? Actually, based on the...

He stuck with Tampa for for years, belting 20 home runs against the Yankees in that span. Even before that, the Yankees were part of the trade that sent Pena from Oakland to Detroit. That, as you’ll regrettably remember, was the trade that netted the...

This deal is the type you love to see if you are a Yankee fan praising Cashman for his patient approach to rebuilding their farm system. If this was George Steinbrenner's team still, Montero would have been traded a while ago for a Jeff Weaver type...