Derek Jeter News

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Injured New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira could soon start playing in minor league games while pitcher Andy Pettitte is also working his way back to the majors.

When the New York Yankees called up their 35th and 36th players of the season this week, much was made of how the Yankees have not just survived but have thrived during this onslaught of injuries in the first quarter of the season.

The Yankees got a solid performance from starter Phil Hughes, Travis Hafner drove in a pair of runs and the bullpen permitted only three hits over the final four innings.

In a season where seemingly every bump and bruise suffered sends the player to the disabled list, Yankees manager Joe Girardi said he is supremely confident Hiroki Kuroda won't be sidelined by the bruised right calf that forced him out of last night's game.

In March, the so called experts wrote off the New York Yankees in the American League East.

It took almost 69 years for a baseball player born in Franklin to have another chance to record a hit in a Major League game.

Mariano Rivera has many awards in his collection, but he doesn't have an American League Cy Young Award yet.

Coming off the draft in my 12-team league, I was optimistic that I had assembled a dynamic offense that would be one of the best in the league; I thought I had power, speed, average and runs all covered.

Instead, the man who used to have Joe Girardi's job in The Bronx pointed to the ways the team has been able to overcome the injuries to so many of their high-profile players.

Boston was coming off a miserable and tumultuous 69-93 season. New York entered this year with injuries to stars Derek Jeter, Mark Teixeira, Alex Rodriguez and Curtis Granderson.

More than 35,000 - at least that was the number for Tim Kaebisch , who created a LEGO version of the home of the Milwaukee Brewers when he was a graduate student at the Milwaukee School of Engineering.

What does the upcoming series look like from a Yankees fan perspective? Mark talked to Tanya Bondurant from Pinstriped Bible to find out.

But even though this year's success is nothing new for the Yankees, when they arrive in Baltimore today for a three-game series, folks at Camden Yards won't recognize much beyond the uniforms, CC Sabathia and Robinson Cano .

After a month and a half into the baseball season, it has become obvious that the Yankees are good.

New York's National League team drew first blood in the Subway Series on this date in 2006.

ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE Yankees pitcher Clay Rapada throws during a spring training game in 2012.

As bodies kept dropping to the disabled list this spring, Hal Steinbrenner took note of the obituaries written long before the 2013 season ever started.

Every day, the spotlight that follows the Yankees seems to be trained on the players who aren't with the team.

Brignac had been designated for assignment by the Rockies on Thursday. He was hitting .250 with a homer and six runs batted in over 29 games for Colorado.