New York Yankees News

An employee of the sports agency that represents Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte spoke Thursday to the congressional committee investigating drugs in baseball. The agent, Jim Murray, was the first person known to have been interviewed by lawyers for the committee, which will hold a Feb. 13 hearing focusing on Clemens’ denial of allegations in […]

Morgan Ensberg agreed Thursday to a minor league contract with the New York Yankees, giving the team another contender to play first base. Ensberg would get a $1.75 million, one-year contract if added to the 40-man roster and would have a chance to earn $2.25 million more in performance bonuses. He would get the full […]

Phil Hughes can relax. With Johan Santana headed to the New York Mets, Hughes will remain with the Yankees. “That’s kind of been my goal the whole time, and to finally know that it’s somewhat intact, it’s a good feeling,” the 21-year-old right-hander said Thursday at the Yankees’ minor league complex.

Former World Series star Jim Leyritz was ordered Thursday to take daily breath tests while he awaits trial on DUI manslaughter charges. Judge Marc Gold said Leyritz must stay away from drugs and alcohol while waiting for trial, and he must blow into a machine three times a day to prove he is following orders.

So far, Roger Clemens and his former personal trainer Brian McNamee have engaged in a he-said, he-said, with no third party providing evidence to back either account. A lawyer for McNamee believes that could change next week, when New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte — Clemens’ former teammate and workout partner — speaks to a […]

   Why did the Yankees sign second baseman Robinson Cano to a long-term deal, but not right-hander Chien-Ming Wang? The answer is in the cautionary tale of pitchers and extended contracts.
   Wang will be 28 on March 31, and the Yankees will have him under their control until 2010. Even in dealing with their own young stars, […]

Any team in baseball would want Johan Santana. The New York Mets need him. Perhaps the only thing that kept the Mets out of the last two World Series was this: Their rotation lacked a durable, dominant ace. Of course, they weren’t the only club without one. In the big leagues, legitimate No. 1 starters […]

The hardest commodity to find in baseball is a durable, dominant ace. Pitching arms are fragile, 20-game winners are expensive and the task of developing a true No. 1 starter in your own farm system takes keen scouting, years of patience — and a lot of luck. So when the New York Mets had a […]

WASHINGTON (Ticker) - The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has postponed a pre-hearing meeting with Andy Pettitte until February 4.

New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte’s meeting with a congressional committee investigating drug use in baseball was postponed until Monday. He originally was slated to appear for a deposition or transcribed interview Wednesday. But the date was changed Tuesday, the latest in a series of switches to the schedule of when witnesses will meet with […]