Bronx Bomber Ball

By: Frank Mello-Morales The following article will likely garner many various opinions and perhaps even complete disagreement. What we can all come to a consensus on, however, is that the Yankees, with the likely departure of Hiroki Kuroda and uncertainty surrounding other members of the rotation, could certainly use at least one more pitcher going into 2015- and preferably a good one. The two top pitching free agents this off-season are veterans Max Scherzer and Jon Lester, each of whom were All Stars in 2014. Both are hitting the open market for the first time in their careers, and will each be commanding top dollar contracts. Along with this mutual prospect, it can also be noted that both pitchers are thirty years of age, and are coming off statistically similar seasons (Lester had the edge in ERA [2.46], Scherzer in WAR [6.0], while both struck out well over 200 batters). To continue, they are both very durable as each have totaled north of 1,000 innings pitched over their las...

By: Chad Raines  Upon entering the 2014 offseason, the New York Yankees were looking at being one of the heavy favorites to sign Max Scherzer, Jon Lester or James Shields. Shortly after, Yankees GM Brian Cashman stated that they would not be pursuing any of the “big 3” starting pitchers on the market.