New York Yankees News

Roger Clemens talked about his plight and laughed. “I’m failing at retirement,” he said. “Let’s just face it. I’m failing miserably at it.” The 44-year-old right-hander, unsure whether to retire or return for a 24th major league season, was the keynote speaker for the St. John’s winter baseball banquet on Wednesday night.

Yankee Stadium is going out with an All-Star salute. The beloved old ballpark will host the 79th major league All-Star game on July 15, 2008, the final season before the New York Yankees move into a new stadium being built across the street in the Bronx. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig and New York Mayor Michael […]

New York Yankees vice president of baseball operations Mark Newman said Tuesday that he wouldn’t rule out top…

Yankees outfielder Melky Cabrera will skip the Caribbean World Series at the team’s request so he can rest up for next season. Cabrera played the last part of the winter league season in the Dominican Republic and participated in the playoffs, said Mark Newman, the Yankees’ senior vice president of baseball operations.

The New York Yankees agreed Tuesday to send coaches, scouts and trainers to China to help boost interest in baseball, furthering a push by the major leagues into one of the world’s fastest-growing sports markets. Under the agreement, the government-backed Chinese Baseball Association will send staff to the Yankees’ facilities in New York and Tampa, […]

BEIJING (Ticker) - The New York Yankees are looking to expand their empire in a not-so-evil fashion.

Art Fowler, who pitched for the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 1959 championship team and became a pitching coach for five major league clubs, died Monday. He was 84. He died at his home, his son John said. Fowler, as pitching coach, won World Series rings with the New York Yankees in 1977 and 1978. He was […]

New York Yankees manager Joe Torre has told GM Brian Cashman that he’d like to give Bernie Williams a shot at…

The New York Yankees stabilized their bench Friday, signing infielder Miguel Cairo to a one-year contract worth $750,000.

Miguel Cairo’s $750,000, one-year contract with the New York Yankees was completed Friday. The 32-year-old infielder hit .239 with 30 RBIs in 222 at-bats for the Yankees last year, appearing in 81 games. He started 57 games: 36 at second, 10 at shortstop, six at first base, four at third and one in left field.