New York Yankees

After a 16 year career in the MLB, Alfonso Soriano has announced that he will choose to retire at age 38. Hector Gomez sent out the tweet about Soriano's retirement. https://twitter.com/hgomez27/status/529781748091990016 Soriano had some ups and downs during his career. When he got to the big leagues and started playing with the New York…

FLASHBACK: September 26, 2013 -- Legendary New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera pitched his final Major League game, pitching 1-1/3 innings. Rivera entered the eighth inning against the Tampa Bay Rays and got the final two outs very easily. He then came out for the ninth. After getting the Rays' Jose Lobaton to ground out to open the inning, it…

Monument Park is about to get bigger. Just less than two weeks ago, the New York Yankees added former manager Joe Torre's #6 to the Yankee memorial, thereby permanently retiring the number. That move left Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter's #2 as the only active single-digit number from 1-9 left in circulation. Yankee fans -- and all of MLB -- knew that…

Every year, as the Major League Baseball season approaches the final two months and later, fans, analysts, and experts start discussing the front-runners for the season awards. Since many of the awards (such as league's most valuable player) depend on how the sports writers vote, no matter who wins, arguments ensue about who "got snubbed" and who…