AL East

According to the Boston Globe, the Boston Red Soxs  agreed to a seven-year, $217 million contract with the 30-year-old left-hander. Price went 18-5 with a 2.45 ERA last season with the Tigers and Blue Jays. The average annual value of $31 million is tied for the largest in baseball history, and it’s the biggest contract (in total dollars) ever given to a pitcher...

Will the New York Yankees show that they are still the big brother of the big apple, or will the New York Mets show that they are the superior team?  This isnlt your usual subway series tale. The Yankees sit three games back in its division, and can't afford to lose any games if they want to stay in the hunt for the AL East title...

NEW YORK (AP) — Josh Donaldson and Jose Bautista each hit a long home run, and the Toronto Blue Jays earned their eighth straight victory by beating the New York Yankees 2-0 Sunday to complete a three-game sweep that tightened the AL East race...

The New York Yankees have a six-game lead in the AL East, and go into the final third of the season controlling their own destiny. Out of the Yankees 58 games left 34 of them will be played at home, where they have been extremely good (30-17)...

The Yankees went into the second half of the season three games ahead, in first place of the American League East and ESPN's Buster Olney told Armen and Levack just how good they are.

NEW YORK (AP) — The revelation that ace Masahiro Tanaka will be out at least a month because of a mild forearm strain and right wrist tendinitis overshadowed the New York Yankees' 4-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night behind Brian McCann's two doubles that drove in three runs...

It is being reported that the Red Sox are on the verge of signing of both Hanley Ramirez and Pablo Sandoval. Both are reported to be five-year deals that instantly return the Sox to relevance in the AL East. Your move, Yankees.

Sports proved to be the best kind of theater once again on Thursday night as the New York Yankees topped the Baltimore Orioles, 6-5, on a walk-off single by Derek Jeter in his final home game. Jeter took the first pitch he saw from Evan Meek to right field, in classic Jeter fashion, to score Antoan Richardson from second -- and win the game in front of a sold-out Yankee Stadium and appreciative Ya

NEW YORK (AP) — Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees were eliminated from postseason contention, wasting a three-run lead Thursday in a 9-5 loss to Nelson Cruz and the AL East champion Baltimore Orioles. Jeter went 0 for 4 as the designated hitter in his next-to-last game in pinstripes, ending a seven-game hitting streak and dropping his average to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nelson Cruz hit his major league-leading 40th home run and the Baltimore Orioles pushed Derek Jeter and the Yankees to the brink of playoff elimination, beating New York 5-4 Tuesday night. The Yankees fell five games behind for the second AL wild card with only five games left...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Derek Jeter was hit on the arm by a Steve Geltz pitch in the eighth inning of a 6-1 loss to Tampa Bay last night, the fifth time a New York Yankees batter has been hit by a Rays pitcher in the past week. Yankees manager Joe Girardi came out of the dugout and was ejected after New York's captain was hit...

NEW YORK (AP) — Left fielder Matt Joyce threw out Stephen Drew in the fifth inning when catcher Ryan Hanigan blocked the sliding runner, and the Tampa Bay Rays held on to beat the fading New York Yankees 4-3 Tuesday night. Hours after Major League Baseball gave teams and umpires new guidelines on what catchers can do under this year's experimental rule designed to avoid collisions, the latest inst