• Yankees mailbag: Now is not the time to give up on Clint Frazier

    Yankees mailbag: Now is not the time to give up on Clint Frazier

    You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Yankees. Is this Clint Frazier’s final opportunity with the Yankees? Even with the injury history to [Aaron] Hicks, …
  • MLB stars pressure owners with ‘tell us when and where’ campaign

    MLB stars pressure owners with ‘tell us when and where’ campaign

    It may be orchestrated. It could be social media momentum. Or, possibly, it is simply players expressing their desire to get back on the field. Whatever the case may be, several of baseball’s big names have taken to Twitter with a simple message: “Tell us when and where.” From Mike Trout to Pete Alonso, Blake …
  • Yankees mailbag: Are Bombers’ young stars overrated?

    Yankees mailbag: Are Bombers’ young stars overrated?

    You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Yankees. Are we victims of grade inflation of the young Yankee “stars” [Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez, Gleyber Torres, …
  • Gleyber Torres may be winner of hypothetical Yankees dilemma

    Gleyber Torres may be winner of hypothetical Yankees dilemma

    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 …
  • Yankees mailbag: The case for not tinkering with Aaron Judge

    Yankees mailbag: The case for not tinkering with Aaron Judge

    You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Yankees. Should Aaron Judge continue to bat second? Other than his high number of walks, he does not …
  • Examining why Gary Sanchez is such a polarizing Yankee

    Examining why Gary Sanchez is such a polarizing Yankee

    Part 20 in a series analyzing the New York Yankees. There are some who look at Gary Sanchez and borrow from Peggy Lee’s hit song in 1969, “Is That All There Is”? Others, mesmerized by the catcher’s right-handed power, believe there is more to come from a bat that at times resembles Manny Ramirez’s. And …
  • Gary Sanchez is closer to overcoming his greatest Yankees flaw

    Gary Sanchez is closer to overcoming his greatest Yankees flaw

    Read any good books during quarantine? I reached deep in my bookshelf and grabbed “The Fielding Bible: Volume III,” by John Dewan and Ben Jedlovec of Baseball Info Solutions. On page 63, I found this: “The most important defensive impact a catcher can have, that we’ve found we can measure, involves the ability to prevent …