• Yankees mailbag: Why Miguel Andujar isn’t going anywhere

    Yankees mailbag: Why Miguel Andujar isn’t going anywhere

    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. What is the likelihood the Yankees trade Miguel Andujar at the deadline? — Chester Lemon Andujar has …
  • Yankees’ injuries remain a test for team’s new health director

    Yankees’ injuries remain a test for team’s new health director

    Directors of player health and performance, Casey Stengel once said, are like umpires and weather forecasters. We talk about them only when things go wrong on their watch. (OK, you got me. Casey surely never uttered the words “directors of player health and performance” in that exact order. Just plug in “Railroad conductors” or “Milkmen” …
  • Yankees get Aaron Judge news they’ve been waiting for

    Yankees get Aaron Judge news they’ve been waiting for

    When the Yankees’ season resumes, most likely in Atlanta on Tuesday, Aaron Boone will write Aaron Judge into a lineup card for the first time in two weeks. “He looks good. He looks ready to go,’’ Boone said of Judge, who participated in a team workout Saturday at Yankee Stadium. “When we return, Aaron will …
  • Yankees still have plenty of depth left to help soothe injury woes

    Yankees still have plenty of depth left to help soothe injury woes

    A weekend series postponed due to the coronavirus and three more guys on the injured list. Nice job perfectly capturing both 2020 and the Yankees, Friday. Yes, hours after Major League Baseball announced the sidelining of the scheduled Subway Series at Citi Field thanks to a pair of positive COVID tests for the Mets, the …
  • Subway Series fans don’t have to choose between devotion and compassion

    Subway Series fans don’t have to choose between devotion and compassion

    The seduction has been easy, for those who’ve invited it in. There were some sports fans who’ve done what some of the athletes have done — they’ve opted out, either for now, or for the duration, or for good. They’ve done this for a variety of reasons: simmering resentment over baseball allowing its labor issues …
  • Gleyber Torres, James Paxton added to Yankees’ ever-growing injured list

    Gleyber Torres, James Paxton added to Yankees’ ever-growing injured list

    The Yankees’ series against the Mets was postponed, but that didn’t stop their list of injuries from growing on Friday, as Gleyber Torres was placed on the injured list. Torres left Thursday’s game with a tight left hamstring suffered running to first base and an MRI exam confirmed a Grade 1 strain (the least severe). …
  • Mets’ coronavirus crisis puts Subway Series in shambles

    Mets’ coronavirus crisis puts Subway Series in shambles

    As the Mets await the results of their most recent COVID-19 tests, the entire Subway Series this weekend has been postponed. Friday’s series opener had already been called off, after a Mets position player and coach tested positive Thursday in Miami, but MLB has now postponed the rest of the three-game set at Citi Field …
  • It was only matter of time before coronavirus hit New York sports

    It was only matter of time before coronavirus hit New York sports

    This hits home now. We always knew that was a possibility, if not a certainty. As the coronavirus made its merry way around Major League Baseball, infiltrating random teams and picking off games like a sniper — the Marlins, the Cardinals, the Reds — New York could hold its breath, then exhale, then say: At …
  • Yankees’ day only gets worse as Rays complete sweep

    Yankees’ day only gets worse as Rays complete sweep

    Where should we start? The Yankees lost Zack Britton to the injured list, Gleyber Torres to a tight hamstring and then a game to the Rays, 10-5 on Thursday. Things didn’t get better after the game, when manager Aaron Boone announced started James Paxton was getting an MRI after feeling discomfort in his forearm/elbow from …
  • Yankees’ injury problems worsen as Gleyber Torres leaves game vs. Rays

    Yankees’ injury problems worsen as Gleyber Torres leaves game vs. Rays

    They’re dropping like flies in The Bronx. Gleyber Torres became the latest Yankee to deal with an injury when he left Thursday’s game against the Rays with a tight left hamstring, the team announced. He was still being evaluated. Torres stumbled running out a grounder in the bottom of the third and was replaced in …