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A normal spring training is six weeks long to get pitchers ready for the grind of a six-month season, which is three weeks more than position players require. Now, with the prospect of a shortened spring training in June in front of games maybe beginning in July, Yankees team doctor Chris Ahmad has raised the …
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Aaron Judge represents the Yankees’ best draft choice since Derek Jeter nearly three decades ago — and it is not really close. He also embodies many of the qualities of the last Yankees captain. He is productive on the field, pristine off the field, poised in the maw of New York. When it came time …
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Part 14 of a series analyzing the New York Yankees Aaron Judge has become the face of the franchise for the Yankees, but what will that face ultimately represent? Will it be for the record-breaking home run total in his rookie season, the Judge’s Chambers in right field and helping lead the Yankees to three …
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Had it all gone as planned, Gerrit Cole would be through his season-opening start, his Yankee Stadium debut and, this weekend, the righty would have been involved for the first time in The Rivalry. Oh yeah, he also would already have banked about $9 million of his pitching-record contract. Instead, Cole plays catch occasionally with …
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If waiting for baseball to return is the hardest part for fans, players, coaches, scouts and front office types during the coronavirus pandemic, it isn’t new to Miguel Andujar. Unfortunately for the 25-year-old, he has last year to lean on. Instead of getting ready to open a delicious three-game series against the Red Sox on …
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Aaron Judge is still not out of the woods yet regarding the fractured rib discovered during spring training, according to Yankees manager Aaron Boone. The right fielder is “due for another CT scan, I believe, in a couple more weeks,’’ Boone said Tuesday on MLB Network Radio on SiriusXM. “This time down has allowed that …
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Part 9 in a series analyzing the New York Yankees With Tommy Kahnle, Adam Ottavino, Zack Britton and Aroldis Chapman, the Yankees’ 2019 bullpen thrived despite having Dellin Betances for just two-thirds of an inning in September. Since Betances signed with the Mets as a free agent, the Yankees won’t have one of baseball’s premier …
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Part 8 in a series analyzing the New York Yankees Brett Gardner was in line not just to continue a remarkable run of durability and success in the latter stage of his career heading into 2020, the 36-year-old is also on the cusp of some significant career milestones before the regular season was pushed back …
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Noah Syndergaard isn’t the only star pitcher going shirtless around here. Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman on Saturday shared an Instagram video of himself tossing pitches partially unclad, and it seems his massive muscles only continue to grow during baseball’s coronavirus shutdown. “Bullpen day,” the 32-year-old pitcher wrote alongside the social-media post. Long regarded as one …
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OAKLAND, Calif. — Matt Keough, the former Oakland Athletics pitcher and special assistant, has died. He was 64. The Athletics announced the death Saturday night without providing details. “Matt was a great baseball man and a proud Oakland A,” Billy Beane, the team’s executive vice president of baseball operations, said in a statement. “He had …
A normal spring training is six weeks long to get pitchers ready for the grind of a six-month season, which is three weeks more than position players require. Now, with the prospect of a shortened spring training in June in front of games maybe beginning in July, Yankees team doctor Chris Ahmad has raised the …
