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Confession: I spent all offseason believing the Yankees would still rank among the American League's elite teams in 2013. After all, despite the woeful hitting in the postseason, this was still a team that won 95 games and had the second-best run dif...

2012 in review Record: 95-67 (95-67 Pythagorean) 804 runs scored (2nd in AL) 668 runs allowed (4th in AL) Big Offseason Moves Re-signed free agents Hiroki Kuroda, Andy Pettitte, Mariano Rivera and Ichiro Suzuki. Signed free agents Kevin Youkil...

This will be the year. How long have we been saying this about the New York Yankees? This will be the year. Too old, too many bloated contracts, not enough young talent coming up through the minors and now ownership that -- horror of horrors! -- s...

Some postseason averages through the first four games for some Yankees hitters: Alex Rodriguez: .125, 16 AB, 9 SO Ichiro Suzuki: .200, 20 AB, 3 SO Nick Swisher: .133, 15 AB, 3 SO Robinson Cano: .111, 18 AB, 1 SO Curtis Granderson: .063, 16 AB,...

In the seventh inning of Game 2 on Monday, with Ichiro Suzuki at second base and two outs and the Orioles leading 3-2, Buck Showalter decided to intentionally walk Robinson Cano to face Nick Swisher. On Twitter I wrote, "Let the second guessing begin...

Mariners fans love Ichiro Suzuki. They do not love the New York Yankees. (Damn you, David Justice!) So I was little surprised when my mom told me she'd like to see Ichiro play in the World Series. He's never played in one, of course, so I can see ...

From my friends at ESPN Playbook: Seattle hasn't had a drop of rain in 45 days and is approaching its record drought of 51 days, set in 1951. Coincidentally -- or not! -- the drought began the day Ichiro Suzuki was traded to the Yankees. Yankees f...

On July 18, the New York Yankees blanked the Toronto Blue Jays 6-0 in a rain-shortened game. Hiroki Kuroda pitched the seven-inning shutout, Mark Teixeira homered and the Yankees ripped 12 hits off Ricky Romero. The Yankees were cruising, having won ...

You have to love August baseball. This is when the grind of the long season settles in, when depth becomes even more important, when pitchers have to pitch through fatigue and soreness and maybe a little pain. It's when we find out if the pretenders ...

Gambling website Bovada.lv has set Ichiro Suzuki's over/under for batting average with the Yankees at .270. What do you think? I'll take the over for a few reasons: 1. While Ichiro was hitting just .261 overall with the Mariners, he was hitting...

This was almost certainly his last time to come to the plate in Fenway Park, and instead of merely cheering, as we had at his three previous appearances, we stood, all of us -- stood and applauded. Have you ever heard applause in a ballpark? Just app...

This came up on my Twitter timeline Sunday night when somebody asked if Mike Trout is having the greatest rookie seasons of all time. Entering Monday night's game against the Tigers, Trout is hitting .349/.403/.574 and leads the American League in ba...

Eric Karabell and I discuss the best players of the first half. Mike Trout for MVP? Hey, Fred Lynn and Ichiro Suzuki could have company by the end of the season....

Welcome to Opening Day! Not the official Opening Day, mind you, but the fake one from Japan, where the Mariners and A's will be playing two games in a stadium the Japanese lovingly call the Big Egg. It's fake Opening Day, but the games are real, alth...

Ichiro Suzuki has started 1,733 games during his Mariners career, and all but 13 of those starts have come as the leadoff hitter. However, following the worst season of his career, manager Eric Wedge said Thursday that he's considering moving Ichi...

What does that question even mean, "The most talented team of all time?" Does it simply mean the best team? The 2001 Seattle Mariners won 116 games, a total matched only by the 1906 Chicago Cubs. Certainly, that Mariners club had a lot of talent -...