New York Yankees news

Baseball coverage from the Staten Island Advance

• YANKS FIGURE MUSSINA'S PACKING IT IN
The Yankees' 2009 pitching plans are starting to take shape -- although more slowly and not exactly in the way they had hoped.

• SWISHER IS YANKS' FIRST MOVE
Mark Teixeira may have just gotten a little poorer, since the Yankees can now throw their dollars elsewhere.

• Yanks ink Marte to $12M deal
In recent years, the Yankees gave long-term deals to setup men Steve Karsay, Tom Gordon and Kyle Farnsworth with less-than-ideal results.

• CC mulls move to Yanks
CC Sabathia and Andy Pettitte have reached out, and now they are waiting on contract offers from the Yankees.

• Cashman hopes Joba learned his lesson
Instead of simulating a baseball game on the field, a video game coming out next year allows fans to try their hands at being a general manager. And while 2K Sports' "MLB Front Office Manager" is loaded with details, such as the Rule 5 draft, salary arbitration and scouting budgets, it doesn't have instances of how to handle a star player getting busted for DUI.