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Francisco Cervelli of the Yankees whoops it up Wednesday. (Kathy Willens/Associated Press)
The Toronto Blue Jays put the brouhaha behind them, but Francisco Cervelli still found a way to send them reeling Wednesday night at Yankee
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CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/story/2009/09/16/sp-mlb-bluejays-yankees.html?ref=rss
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...NEW YORK -- It grated on Yankees manager Joe Girardi earlier this year when he had to send both Francisco Cervelli and Ramiro Pena -- two backups who had far exceeded expectations -- back to Triple-A. "Kind of like Pena didn't deserve to go down, Cervelli...
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All of the things which plagued last year's team and made them a pretender have seemed to have done a complete role reversal this year. Instead of names like: Giambi, Cano, Cabrera, Posada, Matsui and Gardner all having off or injury-proned seasons,
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Sports Blogs
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This season Brian Cashman has outmaneuvered Theo Epstein and it started in the offseason. By acquiring Teixeira, Burnett, Sabathia, and Swisher(offseason steal) Cashman not only acquired A+ talents but changed the culture of the team. The Yankees have
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jason farmer / staff photographer
Doug Bernier of the Yankees tries to beat the throw to first base after laying down a bunt during Sunday's game at PNC Field against the Gwinnett Braves. Bernier was out on the play.
jason farmer / staff
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Scranton Times-Tribune
http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/sports/explosive_offense_still_missing_as_yankees_lose_to_gwinnett?localLinksEnabled=false
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(Triple-A) Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (52-38) lost to Gwinnett (50-45) 5-3: Box Score - Recap
The SWB Yankees lost to the Gwinett Braves by a 5-3 score. Ivan Nova suffered his 1st AAA loss, and Francisco Cervelli homered. The Yanks record is not at 52-38.
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Sports Blogs
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Make no mistake about it, Ramiro Pena and Francisco Cervelli would rather be in New York. Yankee Stadium is the big leagues, PNC Field is the minor leagues, and deciding between the two is easy for baseball players.
When they were optioned to
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... new york yankees CC Sabathia Mark Teixeira Alex Rodriguez Francisco Cervelli
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Dumb Move No. 1 There is something going on during this years base ball season with the Yankees that I have not seen since 1996. New blood. Kids from the farms coming up strong. My favorite of these is Francisco Cervelli...
There is something going on
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Bleacher Report
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Nick Laham/Getty Images"I think he has a chance to be a No. 1, I really do," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said of 23-year-old backup Francisco Cervelli.
MINNEAPOLIS -- Yankees manager Joe Girardi made it clear again on Tuesday that he doesn't intend to
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Yesnetwork.com Spotlight chats with Tony Pena about the Yankees catching situation with veteran Jorge Posada and the upstart Francisco Cervelli ... YES Network Tony Pena Jorge Posada Francisco Cervelli New York Yankees
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Last year at this time, Francisco Cervelli was working his way back from a severe wrist injury. The young catcher, who has been a highly touted minor league prospect for the last couple of years, turned a lot of heads in spring training in 2008.
He
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真得是個福將最近他先發都贏球posada可以休息了@@ 當然Joe Girardi的被驅逐出場也是關鍵~
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To power today’s news, I’m going to visit the “Conjuction Junction”:
While he gathered his belongings in the Yankee Stadium clubhouse earlier this month, Ransom revisited his decision to hide the severity of a leg injury that he suffered not that night
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Sports Blogs
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It's starting to feel like a long time ago when this team was on a roll, playing with heart and with optimism soaring high. Then came June...
The Yankees are 9-11 in June, though it feels much worse than that, perhaps because they're just 4-9 since
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Sports Blogs
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The bat makes up for the glove
One unsettling fact for the Yankees is the difference when Jorge Posada catches. With Posada behind the plate, the Yankees' pitchers have a 6.31 E.R.A. The combined E.R.A. with Francisco Cervelli, Jose Molina and Kevin
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Newsvine
http://bases.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/16/2935144-cervelli-is-useful-but-dont-get-used-to-him
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Combined wire services
NEW YORK — Worst week ever?
Almost, for the Yankees. But they somehow managed to come out smelling sweet after five stinkers — getting swept again by the Red Sox, getting handed a freebie by Luis Castillo and then getting
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New Haven Register
http://nhregister.com/articles/2009/06/16/sports/16-yankees.txt
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Sorry guys (and gals). I had to give this a title that would stick out. I mean no offense to anybody
For those who didn't frequent this site last season, I am a self-described Molina-hater. Molina's been on the DL for the majority of the season, and
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Pinstripe Alley
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NEW YORK -- Francisco Cervelli shuffled awkwardly at his locker, a sliver of a grin spilling across his face as he appeared to contain his excitement while showing respect for his fellow Venezuelan countryman.
But there was no hiding this: The
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MLB.com
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090615&content_id=5340136&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb&partnerId=rss_mlb
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As I was watching yesterday's 15-0 beatdown of the Mets, I started wondering if A.J. Burnett would have pitched as well as he did if Jorge Posada were his battery mate instead of Francisco Cervelli. I've heard and read a lot of things over the years
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Sports Blogs
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Jeter went 4 for 4 and the Yankees got two-run homers from Hideki Matsui and Robinson Cano in a nine-run fourth inning, chasing Santana early to take two of three in a testy series at Yankee Stadium.
Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez shouted at Yankees
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ESPN
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=290614110
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New York Yankees starter C.C. Sabathia delivers against the Boston Red Sox in the first inning of their MLB baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston, Thursday June 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
(Charles Krupa - AP)
Boston Red Sox's David Ortiz,
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/11/AR2009061104579.html?wprss=rss_sports/wires
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"I put hot sauce on pretty much everything," Ortiz says, aiming a bottle of his mild Original into a bowl of mondongo (beef tripe soup) before taking a spoonful. "But I like mild hot, not burning hot. Not crazy hot."
Caught out there again (7:56, Mid 2,
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Neither rain, nor slippery conditions, nor an interesting strike-three call on Adam Dunn with the bases loaded could prevent Giants pitcher Randy Johnson from finally earning his 300th win on Thursday, becoming only the 24th hurler in MLB history to
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Sports Illustrated
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/fantasy/06/05/friday.clicks/index.html
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NEW YORK -- Physically and mentally, the position of catcher is widely considered the most taxing job in baseball -- and with good reason. Being a backstop is a special vocation that requires, among other attributes: agility, endurance, judgment and
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MLB.com
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090522&content_id=4883172&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy&partnerId=rss_nyy
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Tuesday night, there were a lot of heroes for the New York Yankees, as they won their seventh game in a row and climbed to five games over .500.
ARod hit a home run for the fourth game in a row.
Mark Teixeira hit a two-run shot in the seventh inning
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Bleacher Report
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Wang started the season 0-3 with a 34.50 ERA, having allowed 23 runs, 23 hits and six walks in just six innings spanning three starts. The Yankees attribute his struggles - flat sinker, velocity drop - to adductor muscle weakness.
Bruney in, Edwar
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New York Newsday
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...fans. Who were we going to go to with our starter and backup both injured? And the answer was in Venezuelan-born catcher Francisco Cervelli. Cervelli was signed by the Yankees in 2003 and has been sitting in the minor leagues, waiting for his chance. He struggled...
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INSIDER: The Bombers have sweeped a 4-game series against the Twins. Tonight they won 7-6 putting them 4 games over .500 Last time the Yankees swept a 4 game series against the Twins was back in 1993.
ON THE MOUND:
Andy Pettitte really had to grind out
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Sports Blogs
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No walk-off but it was another nice victory in the Bronx for the Yankees as they defeated the Twins 7-6 tonight at the new stadium. The win completed their four-game sweep of Minnesota and was their sixth in a row overall, and they are now a
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Sports Blogs
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I got home from work yesterday and thought I had a migraine headache.
I turned on YES to see what Mike Francesca was up to, and I knew that the headache was only about to begin.
Francesca was literally laughing at the Yankees starting lineup.
He was
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Bleacher Report
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The relentless and inescapable injury plague has been contracted by yet another pair of Yankees contributors.
It has begun to spread like a thick river of hot magma, waiting to devour and destroy anything still remaining in its path.
Instead of the
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Bleacher Report
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/174235-shelley-duncan-deserves-pinstriped-resurrection-matsui-needs-benching
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I don't have to tell you that the Yankees haven't been playing well. They haven't gotten anywhere near the pitching they thought they'd get and for the second year in a row they can't hit with runners on. Luckily, Johnny Damon hit that big three-run
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Sports Blogs
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It was either a blip of baseball sanity that will not be repeated or a real step in the managerial evolution of Joe Girardi.
The Yankees skipper executed a move in the late innings of Sunday's 5-3 win over the Orioles that went so against his previous
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New York Newsday
http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-sprieber0512,0,5589266.column?track=rss
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Pitching with a burst blood vessel in his right thumb, Joba Chamberlain looked shaky in the first inning of yesterday afternoon’s rubber game in Baltimore. Five of the seven batters he faced in that frame got a hit, and Aubrey Huff gave the Orioles an
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Sports Blogs
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BALTIMORE - There were two outs in the top of the seventh inning yesterday, and the Yankees trailed the Baltimore Orioles by one run when Francisco Cervelli hit a slow ground ball to second base.
Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts was playing
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LoHud.com
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First hit on the big show of Venezuelan prospect Frank Cervelli on Sat, May 9th against the O´s.
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BALTIMORE — Phil Hughes hung his head, waiting for the ball to be taken from his hand.
Waiting for it all to be over.
His teammates circled around him, offering encouragement as manager Joe Girardi made the long walk to the mound. But there was not
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So what is going on with Mariano Rivera? Oddly, as a result of "never having seen it before" syndrome, Rivera's early season is the most troubling for me out of anything else going on with the team. No middle relief? These guys have had success before,
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Sports Blogs
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...is in line for more playing time after Jose Molina suffered a quadriceps injury on Thursday, the New York Times reports. Cervelli was recalled by the Yankees on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. Cervelli is hitting .163/.234/.326 in 12 games for...
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*Carsten Charles in Charge (I was proud of myself for a second there, but yeah, it’s been done).
This afternoon I told Alex that the way things were going, A-Rod return or no A-Rod return, for tonight’s recap I could probably cut and paste one from
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BALTIMORE - CC Sabathia pumped his left fist and let out a roar when he struck out Melvin Mora to end last night's game against the Baltimore Orioles.
On a night when Alex Rodriguez returned to the lineup with a dramatic home run, it was the emergence
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LoHud.com
http://www.lohud.com/article/20090509/SPORTS01/905090370/-1/rss01
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Pitcher Ian Kennedy will undergo surgery Tuesday to remove an aneurysm in an artery in his right arm near his bicep.
Dr. George Todd, who removed David Cone's aneurysm in 1996, will perform the surgery at Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan.
Manager Joe
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BALTIMORE -- Francisco Cervelli exaggerated his motions on a few balls in the dirt early on Friday, trying to send a message that he can be trusted to block aggressively and take care of his pitchers.
The rookie backstop worked seamlessly with CC
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BALTIMORE - CC Sabathia pumped his left fist and let out a roar when he struck out Melvin Mora to end last night's game against the Baltimore Orioles.
On a night when Alex Rodriguez returned to the lineup with a dramatic home run, it was the emergence
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LoHud.com
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: Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli got his first major league hit, a single to center in the fourth inning of a 4-0 win over the Orioles on Friday. Cervelli got the start against the Orioles on Friday as both Jose Molina and Jorge Posada are on the
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CBS SportsLine
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BALTIMORE - This is what it has come to for the Yankees behind the plate: A rookie who hit .190 at Double-A Trenton caught $161-million man CC Sabathia on Friday night.
Manager Joe Girardi had little choice but to play 23-year-old Francisco Cervelli
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New York Newsday
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Nine innings 4 hits, 0 runs, 1 walk, 8 strikeouts. Total dominance. You have to feel good for Francisco Cervelli.
Back with more later.
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The O's looked like they were going to answer back in the first inning after Brian Roberts and Adam Jones opened with singles, but a controversial call on a double steal attempt pretty much took them out of a promising inning.
Yankees catcher Francisco
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Fantasy baseball waivers and the acquisition of fantasy baseball free agents can make or break a season. You may have adjusted your fantasy baseball cheat sheets over and over during spring training. If your team remains the same after opening day,
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