The Yankees’ first baseman made quite an internet buzz a decade ago. Spring training is not the most serious time on the baseball calendar. That’s not to say that players, coaches, and front office staff don’t take it seriously.
Despite an up-and-down end of his career, Big Tex’s pivotal role on some great teams lands him in our top 100. Name: Mark Charles Teixeira Position: First
The Yankees signed Canó to an extension thinking they’d locked in a quality hitter through his 20’s. What they saw instead was a superstar. After the 2008 season, the Yankees made a number of free agent splashes, at least one of which we’ll profile later in this series.
Mark Teixeira has a history with New York Mets managerial candidate — and presumed front-runner for the job — Buck Showalter from his playing days, and the three-time All-Star showered the veteran skipper with praise in an interview this week.
Five years after Tex’s retirement, let’s take a look back at one of the great first baseman of our generation. Perception is a funny thing. You can have an opinion about something, perhaps even be sure of it, but what do you do when the facts dispute that perception or simply challenge it?
MLB owners and the Players Union are at odds over salary considerations, and now the governor of Illinois has thrown his hat in the ring as well.
Getting paid to play baseball is better than not playing baseball at all.
From the 2008 to the 2019 MLB seasons, a player age 35 or older has hit 25 or more home runs in a season on 45 occasions. How many of the 45 can you name in five minutes?
Shortly after Seattle Mariners second baseman Robinson Cano was suspended for testing positive for a banned substance, Mark Teixeira, who was Cano’s teammate with the New York Yankees, said that he wasn’t surprised.
The fine folks over at Baseball America have been compiling their annual top 100 prospect list since 1990. How many of the No. 1 overall prospects can you name in seven minutes?
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