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Watching Felix Hernandez the other night prompted me to look up the pitchers with the highest career Wins Above Replacement who never started a postseason game. Hernandez's career WAR is 36.3 and I had no idea if he would top the list or even be near...

This past NFL season, a 36-year-old Peyton Manning shook off four neck surgeries and the rust of a year off to nearly win the MVP. In the NBA, Michael Jordan won three championships, spent almost a full season away and came back at 31 years old to...

You may have heard about the awful Joba Chamberlain-Mariano Rivera incident over the weekend, when Rivera told Chamberlain to "shush" as he was giving an interview, with Chamberlain later saying to Rivera: "Don't shush me." Now, this may be hard t...

The baseball season is a long and lonely road. To preserve his sanity, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter keeps a diary. These are excerpts from The Captain's private journal. Thursday, May 9: at Colorado Rockies When I'm in the starting lineup, which...

Illustration by Will Cohen, ESPN Stats & InformationMariano Rivera is still the same old productive Rivera that he was prior to his knee injury. He just has a different way of going about it. Pitch selection and velocity Rivera has alway...

It was the "shush" heard 'round the world. Yankees closer Mariano Rivera shushed fellow reliever Joba Chamberlain before Saturday's game. Minutes later, Chamberlain told Rivera: "Don't ever shush me." Yes, it was that bad. Things got crazy....

Mariano Rivera's return may be the greatest New York comeback of all time.

CLEVELAND -- In a clubhouse full of giant people like pitchers CC Sabathia and Joba Chamberlain, as well as legendary names like Mariano Rivera, it is easy for an unassuming 5-foot-11, 25-year-old named Vidal Nuno to get lost in the shuffle. Where ma...

CLEVELAND -- Though Mariano Rivera bid his farewell to Cleveland when the Yankees paid visit in April, the Indians returned the favor by honoring the longtime Yankees closer, giving him a tribute video presentation and a gift between the two games of...

KANSAS CITY -- The last time Mariano Rivera came to Kauffman Stadium, he left on the back of a cart, his ACL torn and his season over. This time, he leaves with two more saves and the Yankees with three more victories, including Sunday's 4-2 win over...

Defiant Joba Chamberlain is not fit to wear the same uniform as Mo Rivera.

The New York Yankees say they are are one big happy family again, a day after middle reliever Joba Chamberlain publicly warned Mariano Rivera, the greatest closer of all time, not to "shush" him.

New York Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain scolded teammate Mariano Rivera before Saturday night's game, telling the star closer never to "shush" him.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Call off the search party. Andy Pettitte's cutter has been found, alive and well, in his left hand. Pettitte pitched his best game in nearly a month Saturday night as the Yankees beat the Royals 3-2 to maintain their hold on first...

KANSAS CITY -- There is no chalk outline of Mariano Rivera's body on the warning track at Kauffman Stadium. No yellow police tape outlines the site where the Yankees' incomparable closer crumpled to the turf last May 3, having torn the ACL in his rig...

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