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These Rays, these Rays, these Rays. They’re the gum you can’t get off your shoe, the hiccup you can’t stop, the annoying high school classmate who tracks you down no matter how many times you change your number. They’re the Yankees’ regular serving of humility, unprescribed and undesired. There won’t be yearlong perfection at Yankee …

Kevin Cash won’t let history hinder his team’s strategy. As the Rays prepared to close this weekend’s series against the Yankees at Tropicana Field, their manager validated the Yankees’ feelings that led to two ejections on Saturday but didn’t vow any changes. “The only thing we’re mindful of is, we’re trying to compete and go …

Major League Baseball, its season having struck a coronavirus iceberg just days after leaving port, took dramatic, dizzying measures Tuesday to keep its endeavor afloat. The Marlins, with four more players testing positive for COVID-19 Tuesday to give them a total of 15 (plus two coaches), will cease playing through Sunday, the league announced. The …

WASHINGTON — Earlier this month, we hit the 10-year anniversary of George Steinbrenner’s passing, and the truth is that the transformation of the Yankees’ culture was well underway by the time The Boss died. Pinstriped patience, a refusal to overreact to small samples, ranks as recognizable in The Bronx nowadays as a short right-field porch …

Imagine trying to forecast a season when you can’t even, well, forecast a season. Will this major league schedule start, continue, finish? Those are mysteries that dominate 2020 more than who will win a division or an award. But for the purposes of sanity and normalcy, let us go through the exercise and appreciate that …

Not even music royals are safe from mask harassment in Tennessee. Johnny Cash’s eldest daughter, Rosanne Cash, took to Twitter Tuesday to share her daughter’s story of being bullied for wearing the protective gear, which helps prevent the spread of the coronavirus, while out shopping. “My daughter lives in Nashville & wore her mask to …

Brian Cashman has always made it easy to underestimate him, if that was your inclination. He has always looked like a history teacher. He has always had a self-deprecating air about him. He has never been about bluster. He has never been about outward self-promotion. He understands where he works, and who he works for. …

Part 25 in a series analyzing the New York Yankees Luis Severino and the Yankees avoided a potentially contentious arbitration hearing last February by agreeing to a four-year, $40 million extension just prior to the meeting getting underway. It’s about the last thing that’s gone right for Severino, who went on to miss nearly all …

Part 24 in a series analyzing the New York Yankees Pretend you are Brian Cashman, and Hal Steinbrenner is on the phone. The owner tells you he wants to offer Gary Sanchez or Aaron Judge a multi-year deal. However, he only wants to make the offer to one of them. Which one do you suggest …

Bob Watson and Joe Torre were teammates on the 1973 NL All-Star team and Watson played for Torre for three years in Atlanta. But it was in The Bronx where the two made history, with Watson as the general manager when Torre and the Yankees won the World Series in 1996. “All of a sudden …