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Can Clemens Save the Yankees?
With the New York Yankees almost 14 games out of first place, the Bronx Bomber are staking their season on a middle age, highly paid, seven-time Cy Young Award winner.
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Clemens Sues for Defamation
On Monday, January 7, 2008, Roger Clemens sued former trainer Brian McNamee, claiming that statements about Clemens' alleged steroid use are false and defamatory.
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Roger Clemens Beats the Pirates
With the whole world wondering if future Hall of Famer Roger Clemens could reverse New York's 2007 fortunes, Clemens delivered a quality start and a Win for the Yankees.
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Roger Clemens is a Yankee
Roger Clemens is pushing 45 years old but shows no signs of slowing down. At least that is what the Yankees, who just gave him a fortune to pitch for them, are hoping
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Eighty Six, Nineteen Eighty Six, and Payback
There are many parallels between 1986 and 2004 that point to the Red Sox and Astros winning their respective pennants.
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Cy Young Award Winners: 1981-2006
The past 25 years have seen pitchers such as Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson, Greg Maddux and Pedro Martinez win multiple Cy Young Awards.
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A Big Hoax?
"I get sick and tired of everyone wanting to flaunt their training method, to show that they’re the biggest and strongest and baddest, All of that is a big hoax. Nobody trains harder than anybody else. It's a bunch of garbage and I'm sick and tired of hearing it." Gary Sheffield
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The Super Chief and Roger
Allie Reynolds and Roger Clemens both were great Yankees clutch pitchers and both wore number 22. The number 22 should be retired twice.
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The Worst Loss in Baseball History
The 1986 Boston Red Sox World Series defeat remains the worst in baseball history. There is virtually no chance that any team will ever suffer a more agonizing loss.
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An Out of Date Model
It is so basic that it is never forgotten when assessing a team’s chances of winning a baseball game. Now, we all know that while predicting winners is acceptable and even encouraged, actually betting on baseball games is a bad thing, but almost any ten year old can tell you, when an individual bets on a baseball game, the betting line is based primarily on the starting pitchers. But even those who set the odds sometimes are behind the times. Sometimes, even the experts employ out of date models.
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Boston's Schilling May Miss Start
Shoulder discomfort may force Schilling to sit out on Sunday after two back-to-back atrocious efforts on the mound, although an MRI on his right shoulder was negative.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Fred McGriff's decision to go play for the Cubs is all about dollar bills, no matter what he tries to tell you.
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Fred McGriff: A Hall of Famer?
A look at the statistics and overall career of slugger Fred McGriff
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It Might Have Been
Curt Schilling is one of the best pitchers in baseball. He has been on two World Champions, has won twenty games three of the last four seasons and is hated by most Yankees’ fans. His salary for 2004 was $12 million and he was worth every cent. But something is missing.
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Mitchell Report is Incomplete
The most interesting thing about Boston Red Sox director George Mitchell's report is the amount of Yankees names that appear, and the complete lack of Red Sox players.
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MVP
New York, December 1, 2006. New York Yankees’ rookie sensation, Iget KlutcHits, has been voted the American League’s Most Valuable Player AND Rookie of the Year for the 2006 season despite having only 61 official plate appearances. The Base Ball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), in the closest vote ever for MVP, elected KlutcHits over Jason Giambi, a decision that is certain to foment great controversy.
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Sam
Sam sat down as Mariano Rivera entered the game even though it wasn’t a save situation. After Bernie retired and Posada was sent to Arizona as part of the package that brought Randy Johnson to New York, only Rivera and Jeter remained from the last championship team. Rivera retired four straight batters to preserve the win.
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The Mentality of Mediocrity: A Chance to Win
After Al Leiter, formerly of New York’s other team and most recently of the team that defeated a somnambulant Yankees team in the 2003 World Series faced fifteen Indians and walked five of them a few nights ago, allowing five runs in two innings, the lead story in the New York taboids bemoaned the fact that the veteran lefty didn’t give his team a chance to win against the Indians.
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Why Offense Has Increased: Part 1--The Lowered Pitching Mound
Baseball today is quite different from the game that existed fifty years ago but because baseball’s basic structure, with the exception of the designated hitter rule, has seemingly remained the same and the changes have occurred over many decades, most of us don't realize what has happened.
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Clemens - Did the Red Sox Muff it?
An analysis of whether the Boston Red Sox made a mistake low-balling Roger Clemens when the team had a chance to sign him, instead losing him to the New York Yankees.
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Congress Presses Selig on Steroids
The government took a day off from ignoring the problems of the real world with a full day hearing to question officials about performance-enhancing drug use.
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The Yankees' Number Twenty-Two
Derek Jeter and Mariano spoke with Hawkins and LaTroy exchanged number 21 for number 22, but that number has a more illustrious history than number 21.
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What is a Fastball?
There are various types of fastballs that a pitcher can throw, including the split-finger fastball, the four seam or two-seam fastball, and the cut fastball.
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2007 MLB Baseball Season Wrap-Up
With so many records shattered and so many tight pennant races that came down to the wire, the 2007 baseball season may have been among the best ever.
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Baseball's Over 40 All Star Team
Over the past twenty years, baseball has become a game that is open to the middle-aged as well as the young. Here are the best over-40 players in the Major Leagues.
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Baseball's Top 5 Pitchers
Here are the statistics and biographical sketches of the final five of the Top 10 MLB pitchers since 1950. These are some of the truly great MLB pitchers of all time.
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Can St. Louis Cardinals repeat?
The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Detroit Tigers in five games in 2006 World Series, but they may be hard-pressed to repeat as NL Central division champions.
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Can the Yankees Lose the World Series?
The Yankees are down 2 games to none to the Diamondbacks in the 2001 World Series. Can they come back and continue their odds-defying run?
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M's Overboard?
The Mariners are dominating this regular season, but the playoffs are a whole different ball game.
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Major League Baseball 300 Win Club
Only twenty-three pitchers have won 300 or more career games since professional baseball started in 1869. Tom Glavine is the newest member.
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Pedro, Roger, Bernie and Kim
The greatest rivalry in the history of sports has taken a hit. Pedro Martinez has announced that he will become a free agent at the end of this season. Pedro Martinez will be leaving the Red Sox “Nation” to join another “nation” unless the Red Sox produce enough Federal Reserve Notes to satisfy him.
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Seven Active Hall of Fame Pitchers
Roger Clemens, Greg Maddux, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz and Mariano Rivera will make Baseball's Hall of Fame in their first eligible year.
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Ten and Twenty Five and Three and Twenty One
Red Ruffing compiled a record of 39 wins and 96 losses for Boston teams that finished last every season. In 1928 he won 10 games and lost 25. Don Larsen compiled a record of 10 wins and 33 losses for teams that lost 100 games in each of two seasons.
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The 1985 Yankees Came Close
The Yankees had to beat Toronto five consecutive times to win the Division title. They didn't.
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The Big Z
The constant trade rumours about Eric Lindros are more soap opera than sport.
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What is the Cy Young Award?
Named after the pioneering pitcher from the turn of last century, the Cy Young Award is an award given each fall to the best MLB pitchers.
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Changes
The New York Yankees had one of the greatest of all seasons in 1998. Three seasons later, it is an almost completely different team.
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Major League Pitching Records
Pitching is the key to winning games and winning championships. here are some of the best (and worst) records for hurlers in Major League History.
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Mitchell Report Names Names
Major League Baseball's 21-month-long investigation on the use of performance-enhancing drugs by MLB players refers to 88 different players allegedly involved with PHDs.
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Winning Starting Pitcher
Mike Mussina has concluded that a starting pitcher who wins 50 percent of his starts is successful. He is right on target.
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Latest MLB Power Rankings
While some could have foreseen that the Red Sox would have the best record in the American League, nobody predicted the Milwaukee Brewers would lead the Senior Circuit.
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Making Them Suffer Even More
The last time the Yankees were in such a game was in Game 2 of the 2000 World Series against New York.
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Game 6 of the 1986 World Series
With the 106th World Series set to begin on October 23, Suite 101 Baseball takes a look at the ten greatest games in Fall Classic History.
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No Pitching?
The New York Yankees won their first pennant in 1921 and last won the World Series in 2000. While the Yankees have had many outstanding pitchers, almost all of the greatest of the great pitched elsewhere. Despite that fact, the Yankees may be the team whose pitching has been the best and most consistent of the modern era.
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Pitching? Who Has Pitching?
There are eight teams in the playoffs. They are supposedly the best eight teams in the major leagues yet not one has a decent pitching staff.
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Hot Sheet
Fantasy Baseball Article
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Is It As Bad As It Seems?
Perranoski was on the mound 8.8% of the time for the Dodgers. This past season, Mariano was on the mound 4.8% of the time for the Yankees.
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Where Did They Go?
Free agency has changed little except that today, players have the opportunity to change teams themselves instead of being forced to change teams by the owners. One result is that individuals such as Marleen become confused about who is playing for whom. There are very few players, especially stars, who play their entire careers with one team.
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Yankees Make All the Right Moves
The Yankees are once again shelling out huge dollars in the off-season, but are they getting any better? The answer is yes, they are getting much, much better.
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A Whole Team that Belongs in the Hall
Why the New York Yankees deserve their own wing in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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