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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. If Gleyber Torres becomes a liability at shortstop, will Yankees quickly pivot and move him back to …
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During Major League Baseball’s spring training, from mid-February until early April, the Phoenix area is a hotbed of activity as 15 teams converge on the sprawling desert city and its suburbs. The center of the nighttime action is Mastro’s Steakhouse in Scottsdale, where a New York Strip will cost you $71 but also gain you …
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We have not seen one of these in a while. A quarter of a century has elapsed since we were last here. So there has been hesitancy to call what is going on with Major League Baseball what it is, but this is a labor-related work stoppage. It does not fit comfortably into one of …
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You’d think that, given their workplace of Texas, the Astros players would know the difference between a smoking gun and a hand-sized water pistol. Alas, those from the defending American League champions who took to social media on Saturday — in the wake of a titillating story that tied the Yankees to illegal sign-stealing — …
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Quite a few Yankees took swings at their rival Astros over Houston’s illegal sign-stealing scandal this winter, but now they’re getting a taste of their own medicine. Astros shortstop Carlos Correa mocked Aaron Judge on Saturday after a U.S. District Court Judge ordered the unsealing of a letter sent from MLB commissioner Rob Manfred to …
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The illegal sign-stealing drama that rocked MLB before the pandemic might not be over — and this time it involves the Yankees. A letter from commissioner Rob Manfred to the Yankees detailing the findings of a 2017 investigation into the ball club’s alleged sign-stealing program should be unsealed, a judge ruled Friday, according to The …
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Mickey Mantle’s 1953 Yankees contract sold for $39,237 at auction. In the four-page document — signed “Mickey C. Mantle” and dated Feb. 23, 1953 — the slugger agreed to render his “skilled services as a baseball player” for $17,500. He listed his hometown as “Commerce, Okla.” The document is countersigned by general manager George Weiss. …
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The Yankees completed their abbreviated 2020 MLB Draft on Thursday night by selecting second baseman/outfielder Trevor Hauver and right-handed pitcher Beck Way. In the third round of the draft, which was reduced from 40 rounds to five because of the global coronavirus pandemic, the Yankees took Hauver with the No. 99 pick. The Arizona State …
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Being drafted for a second time by the Yankees and a lot higher than the first stab flushed any thought of returning to college out of Austin Wells’ head. The Yankees’ first-round pick in Wednesday night’s draft was asked Thursday on a conference call if the strong possibility of not having minor league games to …
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History repeated itself on Wednesday night when the Yankees drafted Austin Wells 28th overall in the 2020 MLB Draft. But for Wells, who the Yankees originally drafted in the 35th round in 2018, two years made a world of difference. After emerging as top prospect in the summer of 2017, Wells hurt his elbow and …
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. If Gleyber Torres becomes a liability at shortstop, will Yankees quickly pivot and move him back to …
