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Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter wins his fourth career AL Gold Glove, while first baseman Mark Teixeira grabs his third.

27 is in the books, it's time for the Yankees to seek their 28th championship with the help of John Lackey and Matt Holliday , and when do Roy Halladay and Joe Mauer become free agents again? Reports out of New York, one from longtime New York Post columnist Joel Sherman , suggest the Yankees might restrict their spending this offseason and won't ...

NEW YORK - There are 36 lockers in the home clubhouse of Yankee Stadium. On Saturday, 11 of them were completely empty except for a few bare hangers, a spare cleat or two and the occasional cardboard box that once held a dozen baseballs.

The Yankees spent a total of $838,450,000 on major player acquisitions over the past two Hot Stove Leagues.

NEW YORK He waited 10 years in his native Japan and spent six more seasons in New York dreaming of becoming a world champion.

New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi finds comfort in harking back to the time when his bullpen was reliable, when securing a late lead did not require calling on closer Mariano Rivera for more than an inning.

First off, we'd like to thank the New York tabloids for getting the Phillies all worked up.

A.J. Burnett was great, and the big home runs eventually arrived for the Yankees, but doesn't it always come down to Mariano Rivera? You would think they might take it easier on him as he gets older, but he just wants the ball.

The roots of this Yankees team can be traced back to Northern California, where Brian Cashman's plane landed in the dead of December.

PHILADELPHIA - The underbelly of the Yankee bullpen has been criticized this October - with good reason - but the non- Mariano Rivera relievers had one of their finest nights of the postseason in Game 3. Well, except for Phil Hughes .

Before a pitch was thrown in the 2009 World Series, Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda predicted the team with the best bullpen would be crowned this year's champions of baseball.

Mariano Rivera refers to them as the 'young boys,' those 20-somethings trying to solidify the Yankees' bullpen bridge to the ninth inning.

PHIL HUGHES AND JOBA CHAMBERLAIN ARE EIGHTH WONDERS: The bridge to Rivera has been rickety in the playoffs, with Hughes and Chamberlain combining to allow four runs on 16 hits in eight innings.

NEW YORK -- While the New York Yankees have chosen to keep their starting rotation for the American League Championship Series intact, despite the opportunities for tweaking created by Saturday night's rainout, there was one small tactical gain: right-hander A.J. Burnett, who started and received a no-decision in Game 5 on Thursday night, will be available for emergency relief work in a potential Game 7, if not Game 6.

'If I'm needed to come in, I'll be ready,' Burnett said following the rainout announcement Saturday night. 'I'll be ready for anything.'

Is it possible for the team that's made more World Series appearances than any other to have jitters about being in the Fall Classic? Quite possibly, if you base your answer on watching the Yankees flail about the field in Game 1. It's something of an oddity that this Yankees team has so little World Series experience.

October is a great many things. It is the month when the leaves change color, when pucks are rifled and jump-shots floated, when young women respond to Halloween's sartorial challenges by costuming themselves as sexy nuns, sexy Snoopys and sexy thoracic surgeons.

Phil Hughes hasn't been his dominant self this postseason; that has been very well documented.

They were equal-opportunity offenders, tossing mistake after mistake, to ensure their team would end up on the wrong side of the Game 1 of the World Series.

Middle reliever Phil Hughes has gotten encouragement from Mariano Rivera throughout the postseason.

Tex and A-Rod are a combined 0-for-6 with four strikeouts. Cliff Lee continues to deal.