Yankees Daily

Will Andy Pettite be as effective as last year? Will this media scrutiny be a distraction? How will this affect our Yankees? Where will the Yankees finish in the standings? The Yankee bloggers sound off..

• Pettitte’s arrival in camp means media scrutiny – Dave & Aziz Nekoukar – The Star Ledger
• Andy Pettitte’s spring debut – Bryan Hoch – Bombers Beat
• Pettitte could make or break Yankees’ season – Ed Valentine – Bugs And Cranks
• “A sinner stands before ye:” Advanced Text of Andy Pettitte’s News Conference Today – John Sterling
• What will he say? – Ed Price Star Ledger
• Baseball Prospectus Picks the Yankees to Win AL East – Sliding Into Home
• Can Kyle Farnsworth Be Repaired? – Moshe Mandel – The Bronx Block
• Workout getting underway in Tampa – Peter Abraham – LoHud
• PECOTA loves the Farns – True Yankee Blog
• Hank: We’d Better Win – Sliding Into Home
• Stat of the Day: Jeter’s Fielding – Dave & Aziz Nekoukar – Star Ledger
• Jeter on Pettitte – Ed Price – Star Ledger
• Waiting for Andy – Kat O’Brien – Newsday
• Hank: Go pick on the NFL – Ed Price – Star Ledger

Dave & Aziz Nekoukar talk about all the latest Yankee news and time for Afternoon to Evening updates. Just remember when the season starts I’ll be listing all 8 New York Yankee minor league box score links along with the major league club box score links and news about all the Yankee teams. This just in, Chien-Ming Wang loses his arbitration case against the Yankees.

• Pride of the Yankees – Dave & Aziz Nekoukar
• Pettitte’s shadow looms large over Clemens, Yankees – Jayson Stark – ESPN
• Pressing questions in the American League – Gerry Fraley – Sporting News
• Clemens hearing was just grandstanding – David Jones – Patriot News
• What friends are for – Dan Graziano, Ed Price and Lisa Kennelly – Star Ledger
• McNamee in lead after one inning – Andrew Matheson – Morgan Hill Times
• 10 things to watch in spring training – Ken Rosenthal – Fox Sports
• How did each team do this winter? – Jon Heyman – Sports Illustrated
• Baby Bombers bring the noise – Anthony DiComo – YesNetwork
• Chien-Ming Wang loses to Yankees in salary arbitration – MSG
• Notes: Current roster pleases Posada – Bryan Hoch – Yankees Official
• Statement from Randy Levin, president of the New York Yankees, regarding Chien-Ming Wang arbitration ruling – Yankees Official
• Girardi vows to bring his own style – Dawn Klemish – Yankees Official
• Family affair: Cartwheels, knockdowns and laughs on Girardi’s first day as manager – Associated Press
• Stat of the Day: K rates of the stars – Pride Of The Yankees
• Yankees’ Andy Pettitte to throw bullpen session in Texas on Saturday – MSG
• Hank speaks – Ed Price – Star Ledger

Dave and Aziz Nekoukar talk about the Yankee news of the week and the relation of the Yankees regular season record to the Yankees pre season record from the past 5 years. I will also put the afternoon updates after every Pride of the Yankees post.

• Steroids schmeroids, we’re bringing back the SOTD – Dave & Aziz Nekoukar – NJ.com
• Youth dominates Yanks’ clubhouse – Anthony DiComo – Yankees Official
• Yanks expect Pettitte to pull through – Dawn Klemish – Yankees Official
• Untruth Be Told – Mike Wise – Washington Post
• Blog: Sinister sheep – Steve Goldman – YesNetwork
• Chien-Ming Wang, Brian Fuentes, Jose Valverde go to salary arbitration – Canadian Press
• Three Young Pitchers Show Off Their Stuff At Start Of Yankees Spring Training – Kevin Garrity – NY1 News
• Yanks give fans chance at big tickets – Anthony DiComo – Yankees Official
• Pettitte not in Yankees’ camp, Mussina says the lefty will face challenges – MSG
• Congress misses the point about MLB’s real drug issue – Shaun Assael – ESPN
• Proving Clemens or McNamee lied would be tough – JIM BAUMBACH and ROBERT E. KESSLER – Newsday

Dave & Aziz Nekoukar have some great links for you to read about today in their blog. Today, Joe Girardi and GM Brian Cashman are going to go over all 69 players in camp at a conference call at 10:30 AM and you’ll get to know about position battles that are going on in camp.

• Pride of the Yankees – Dave & Aziz Nekoukar – NJ.com
• Spring training: Day zero – Ed Price – Star Ledger

Dave & Aziz Nekoukar talk about all the happenings in Yankee land today…

• Wait and see – Dave & Aziz Nekoukar – NJ.com

Dave and Aziz have more great links for Yankee fans to read about.

• Pride of the Yankees – Dave and Aziz Nekoukar – NJ.com

Dave & Aziz Nekoukar provide a lot of great New York Yankees’ links this morning in their spring previews.

• Pride of the Yankees – Dave & Aziz Nekoukar – NJ.com

The Yankees bench depth will be a lot better this year. Last year, the bench wasn’t as good or deep and Cashman doesn’t want to make the same mistake he made last year.

Bench depth will be a whole lot better – Dave & Aziz Nekoukar – NJ.com

Dave & Aziz Nekoukar give an explanation of what PECOTA projections are. It’s looks like a real good resource to predict which players will have good years and who will not and teams as well. Tell you what, I’m going to look into it for fantasy purposes. If I win, I’ll owe it all to Dave and Aziz and the person who made up the PECOTA projections.

• Life is good, so are the Yanks – Dave & Aziz Nekoukar – NJ.com
• Projecting the ’08 Yankees – Jonah Keri – YesNetwork
• Bye bye, Bedard – Dave & Aziz Nekoukar – NJ.com

I didn’t have time to update as fast as I wanted to today because things came up. Dave & Aziz Nekoukar talk about some good baseball reading material.

• Quality reading material soon available! – Dave & Aziz Nekoukar – NJ.com