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Salary-cap talk will dominate Major League Baseball's offseason, thanks to the New York Yankees' 27th World Series title.

Almost instinctively, as though he could anticipate the inevitable, undermining charge that his team had purchased rather than earned its 27th title on the field, Derek Jeter stood on the podium at Yankee Stadium moments after the New York Yankees ...

From HOWARD BRYANT, ESPN,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Philadelphia Phillies,  Major League Baseball,  New York Yankees,  Los Angeles Angels,  Minnesota Twins

MLB playoffs: The postseason had its share of defining moments

There are no more games to be played this year, except for what will be rewound over eggnog and turkey legs until the spring thaw. Some of those memories will be difficult to purge without a stiff drink: why Charlie Manuel did not yank Pedro Martinez ...

From HOWARD BRYANT, ESPN,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  Philadelphia Phillies,  Major League Baseball,  Robinson Cano,  Jorge Posada

MLB playoffs: New York Yankees are still in control, but this World Series has suddenly taken on a personality somewhat similar to that of the 2004 ALCS

Burnett's failures are more a commentary on the global state of the Yankees -- that a 103-win, $200-million club is without a fourth starter is a byproduct of the Chien-Ming Wang injuries and the failed Joba Chamberlain starting pitching experiment -- ...

From HOWARD BRYANT, ESPN,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  Philadelphia Phillies,  Boston Red Sox,  Major League Baseball,  Chien-Ming Wang

MLB playoffs: World Series shift to Philadelphia slightly favors Phillies

NEW YORK -- The score was only 1-0 Phillies when A.J. Burnett took the mound in the fourth inning of Game 2 at Yankee Stadium, but the weight of increasingly difficult circumstances -- the depressing prospect of facing an 0-2 hole after two home games, ...

From HOWARD BRYANT, ESPN,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  Philadelphia Phillies,  Pedro Martinez,  Major League Baseball,  Joe Girardi

No shortage of stars and subplots in Philadelphia Phillies-New York Yankees World Series, writes Howard Bryant

And in the clenches, when the championship points were won, the Yankees pressured Los Angeles to such a smothering degree that the Angels -- the team whose signature for the past decade has been forcing mistakes -- committed so many unforced errors on ...

From HOWARD BRYANT, ESPN,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  Philadelphia Phillies,  Alex Rodriguez,  C.C. Sabathia,  Jayson Werth

ALCS between New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels has become an interesting chess match

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Outside the visitors' clubhouse at Angel Stadium were 20 cases of Korbel sparkling wine on a steel flatbed trolley, sitting there, it turned out, for nothing. And so now, after the Angels' rousing 7-6 win that extended the American ...

From HOWARD BRYANT, ESPN,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  Los Angeles Angels,  Joe Girardi,  Mike Scioscia,  Andy Pettitte

CC Sabathia stands in the Los Angeles Angels' way of evening ALCS

BBTN previews Game 4 with the Yankees and Angels ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Until the Angels crossed home plate with the fifth and winning run in the 11th inning of Game 3, their role in the American League Championship Series against the Yankees had mimicked ...

From HOWARD BRYANT, ESPN,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  Los Angeles Angels,  C.C. Sabathia,  Jeff Mathis,  Minnesota Twins

Alex Rodriguez isn't talking, but his play is

But the one person for whom psychology plays the biggest role -- the one player whose every movement, every statistic, every success and every failure is layered with constant analysis -- was nowhere to be found, even as the Yankees attempt to reach ...

From HOWARD BRYANT, ESPN,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  Los Angeles Angels,  Alex Rodriguez,  Madonna,  Johnny Damon

CC Sabathia aims to put past October failures to rest

BBTN breaks down the upcoming series between Minnesota and New York NEW YORK -- The tallest man in New York is surrounded on all sides by the consequences of failure. On this late September afternoon, he throws a fastball by Victor Martinez, a man with ...

From HOWARD BRYANT, ESPN,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  Cleveland Indians,  C.C. Sabathia,  Los Angeles Angels,  Reggie Jackson

Pittsburgh Pirates still lost at sea

“ ” -- Sculptor Susan Monroe “ ” -- Phillies first-base coach Davey Lopes Howard Bryant is a senior writer for ESPN.com. He is the author of "Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston" and "Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power and the Fight for the ...

From HOWARD BRYANT, ESPN,  8 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Pittsburgh Pirates,  San Francisco Giants,  Roberto Clemente,  Barry Bonds,  Honus Wagner

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