Damon, Pettitte... and Matsui?: Joel Sherman at the Post spoke with a Yankees official who told him the team would like to try to keep Johnny Damon, Andy Pettitte and Hideki Matsui. It's been generally thought of as unlikely that the team would retain both Damon and Matsui.

The Best of Our Last Five Title Winners: Ted Keith at Sports Illustrated ranks the championship teams of the big four dynasty era. Not surprisingly, the 1998 team comes in first. Via Alex Belth.

2009 Elias Rankings: The 2009 Elias Rankings have been released. Free agents ranked as Type-A or Type-B players can gain their former team some type of draft pick compensation when they sign with a new team. Johnny Damon is a Type-A, while Xavier Nady and Andy Pettitte are both Type-B players. Somewhat surprisingly, Hideki Matsui does not chart. Via Mike Axisa.

Tim Dierkes of MLBTradeRumors.com has his annual list of the top 50 free agents in baseball, along with his prediction for the destination of the player. It's mainly a fun list as it's near impossible to actually predict most of these and even the ones you get tend to be in some way affected by luck.

But, for the sake of discussion, he has John Lackey (number 2 overall) going to the Yankees, along with Andy Pettitte (6) and Johnny Damon (12). He suggests Matsui will end up in Seattle.

Now that we've had a few days to savor the victory, I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to everyone who supported YanksBlog.com this season. Thank you to all of our readers and those who have left thoughtful comments. Thank you to all of our fellow Yankees bloggers who linked to us.

Thank you to my fellow blogger Seamus and our season long weekly guest blogger Andrew Fletcher of Scott Proctor's Arm. It was a lot of fun blogging with you guys. For those keeping track at home, the final regular season recap records were:

Seamus
Regular Season: 49–27 (.644)
Postseason: 5-5 (.500)
Total: 54-32 (.627)

Patrick
Regular Season: 42–20 (.677)
Postseason: 4-0 (1.000)
Total: 46-20 (.696)

Andrew
Regular Season: 12–12 (.500)
Postseason: 1-0 (1.000) (even if he did miss the game!)
Total: 13-12 (.520)

It was a great season for us and, obviously, the Yankees. The last time that the Yankees won, in 2000, was years before we launched. So, you could say this was our first title, as well. Or not. Heh. Thanks again.

2010 Roster Suggestions: It's only been a few days since we won, but ESPN's Tim Kurkjian and the Daily News' John Harper both have thoughts on who the 2010 Yankees roster should contain. Kurkjian suggests the Yankees might let both Hideki Matsui and Johnny Damon go and look at Matt Holliday and Jason Bay. He also thinks they might move Joba Chamberlain to the bullpen and Phil Hughes back to the rotation.

Harper agrees with the idea of Joba to the pen, but says that the team should try to sign both Damon and Matsui. Both he and Kurkjian have more suggestions, as well. Via Drew Silva and Luke Adams.

World Champion Joba and Dad: 'Duk at Big League Stew writes about how special the World Series title was for Joba and his dad; picture included. Via Ben Kabak.

In the November 2 issue of ESPN Magazine, they listed the statistical leaders in a handful of categories for the decade spanning from 2000-2009. Alex Rodriguez had the most home runs with 435 (238 with the Yankees), Andy Pettitte had the most wins with 148 (111 with the Yankees), Randy Johnson had the most strikeouts with 2,182 (383 with the Yankees) and Mariano Rivera had the most saves with 397.

Andy McCullough of The Star-Ledger spoke with Chien-Ming Wang, who will have an appointment with Dr. James Andrews on Monday as he works his way back from arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder.

As Joseph Pawlikowski of River Ave. Blues pointed out, the Yankees will need to make a decision about where Wang fits in the organization's future. They could offer him arbitration or let him walk, possibly signing him for less than he'd receive in arbitration. I'd lean toward bringing him back.

panoramas.dk has a couple of great 360 degree panoramic images from yesterday's ticker tape parade in New York City. Check them out.

Mariano Rivera told MLB.com's Bryan Hoch that he hurt himself during game 6 of the ALCS.

Joe Ward, Amanda Cox, Matthew Ericson and Xaquin G.V. of The New York Times have put together an awesome infographic depicting Mariano Rivera's postseason history and results on a batter by batter basis. So worth it.

Via NPB Tracker.

Haven't had enough Yankees yet? No? Well a bunch of them hit up the late night television scene last night, with Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada and Hideki Matsui making an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman. Shortly after, you could have switched over to NBC and caught Joba Chamberlain playing some music with The Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Jeez, it's like the Yankees just won the World Series or something.

Jeter, Pettitte, Posada and Matsui with Letterman (Matsui doesn't appear until the 3rd part):

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