SP Phil Hughes ...2342 mins 
P Phil Hughes ...2498 mins
SS Derek Jeter ...2534 mins
2B Robinson Cano ...2750 mins
LF Hideki Matsui ...2846 mins
CF Brett Gardner ...2846 mins
LF Hideki Matsui ...3398 mins
1B Nick Swisher ...3866 mins
P Damaso Marte ...3878 mins
SP Phil Hughes ...3890 mins
C Jorge Posada ...shoulder
R Mariano Rivera ...shoulder
R Scott Patterson ...back
With Mike Mussina's announcement of retirement comes the inevitable question of whether the veteran will be voted into the Hall of Fame. Having proven himself as a 20-game winner for the first and only time, the right-hander now has five years for his performance to convince voters that he is deserving of enshrinement in Cooperstown.
Former All-Star Tim Raines has signed a two-year contract to manage the Newark Bears of the independent Atlantic League.
By the time March rolls around toward another baseball season, the new Yankee Stadium north of 161st will be ready to open, while the old ballpark just to the south may be coming down girder by girder. The Yankees turn over the old Yankee Stadium to the city of New York on March 1 and by the end of that month demolition could begin.
The Yankees are willing to throw their money around, but not ad infinitum. In fact, in its pursuit of CC Sabathia, the club is letting the big left-hander know that at some point they'll be expecting an answer.
The Yankees added four players to their 40-man roster on Thursday when they purchased the contracts of right-handed pitchers Anthony Claggett, Christian Garcia and Steven Jackson, as well as left-hander Michael Dunn.
Major League Baseball owners approved Hal Steinbrenner as control person of the Yankees as the last quarterly owners meetings of the year concluded.
Mike Mussina followed through on his plans on Thursday, officially announcing his retirement from Major League Baseball.
Saying that he believes the Yankees should be "a pretty easy sell," manager Joe Girardi is keeping an optimistic outlook regarding the free-agent front.
As expected, Mike Mussina will be announcing his retirement. The veteran right-hander will make an official announcement later in the week, according to a report by Ken Rosenthal on Foxsports.com.
Phil Coke, who impressed the Yankees out of their bullpen as a late-season callup, was named to the Topps Double-A All-Star team on Wednesday.
Nick Swisher is doing his best to shrug off his disappointing 2008 season, in which not much seemed to go right. Next year may already be off to a better start, as the newest Yankee still hasn't stopped pinching himself.
Alex Rodriguez and right-hander Mike Mussina were the only Bombers who garnered votes for the AL MVP Award, which was secured by the Red Sox's Dustin Pedroia on Tuesday.
Four months after the popular Yankee's untimely passing, The Bobby Murcer Mobile MRI Unit was formally dedicated on Tuesday morning, a centerpiece of The Road to Early Detection project sponsored by The Brain Tumor Foundation.
While the Yankees wait for an answer from CC Sabathia, the organization will move forward on at least one more free-agent pitching front, reportedly preparing an offer for right-hander A.J. Burnett.
Don't count the New York Yankees as a player in the Jake Peavy sweepstakes -- not just yet, anyway. Padres general manager Kevin Towers said on Monday that he hasn't engaged Yankees GM Brian Cashman in anything that resembles a serious discussion about Peavy, the 2007 National League Cy Young Award winner who is on the trading block.
With the Yankees reconstructing their starting rotation from the ground up, Darrell Rasner could not be certain of how much he would fit into the club's plans for 2009 -- if at all.
Before the regular season even begins, Yankee Stadium's new turnstiles will spin for the first times. The Yankees announced on Monday that gates will open to fans for a pair of exhibition games against the Chicago Cubs on April 3 and 4.
With Nick Swisher in the fold, does that mean the Yankees are set at first base? Beat reporter Bryan Hoch addresses this and other free-agency questions.
The New York Yankees obliged Darrell Rasner's wishes by selling his contract to a team in Japan's Central League for $1 million, according to a Saturday night report by ESPN.com.
Even as they pursue free agent starting pitchers CC Sabathia, Derek Lowe and A.J. Burnett, the Yankees could also have an eye on Padres' right-hander Jake Peavy.
The Yankees have offered CC Sabathia a contract that reportedly trumps the record six-year, $137.5 million deal the Mets gave Johan Santana last winter, according to an ESPN report late Friday afternoon, and they have also readied offers for top free agents Derek Lowe and A.J. Burnett.
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