• Yankees mailbag: How Gleyber Torres can become perennial MVP contender

    Yankees mailbag: How Gleyber Torres can become perennial MVP contender

    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. Let’s say Gleyber Torres plays for the Yankees through his 37-year-old season, which is the better Gleyber …
  • Yankees aren’t that close to true Clint Frazier evaluation

    Yankees aren’t that close to true Clint Frazier evaluation

    Part 7 in a series analyzing the New York Yankees This coming July marks the fourth anniversary of the Yankees and Indians making a trade the former looked toward the future and the latter focused on the present. Searching for bullpen help, the Tribe acquired lefty reliever Andrew Miller from the Yankees for outfielder Clint …
  • Mike Ford could be long-awaited lefty solution to Yankees’ first base issues

    Mike Ford could be long-awaited lefty solution to Yankees’ first base issues

    Part 6 in a series analyzing the New York Yankees. Since Mark Teixeira retired following the 2016 season, the Yankees haven’t found a consistent answer at first base. The uncertainty at the position actually started when Teixeira began dealing with injuries late in his career. In 2015, Greg Bird seemed ready to take over the …
  • Mets, Yankees deserve blowback over callous coronavirus ticket refund plans

    Mets, Yankees deserve blowback over callous coronavirus ticket refund plans

    Yeesh. To steal from legendary sportscaster Warner Wolf, if you had the Mets and Yankees extending sympathy and virtual hugs during this unprecedented nightmare … you lost! With Major League Baseball starting no time soon, New York’s two clubs released their long-awaited ticket policies to address the COVID-19 shutdown, and look, they could have been …
  • Yankees announce coronavirus ticket refund and credit policy

    Yankees announce coronavirus ticket refund and credit policy

    The Yankees announced on Thursday a ticket policy for home games impacted by COVID-19 that includes the rain check policy, credits, bonuses and refunds subject to eligibility. “At this time the only impacted games are home games originally scheduled to be played in April 2020,’’ a release by the team explained. Coronavirus forced the Yankees …
  • Yankees’ Randy Levine ‘surprised’ by Anthony Fauci’s hopeless sports forecast

    Yankees’ Randy Levine ‘surprised’ by Anthony Fauci’s hopeless sports forecast

    Dr. Anthony Fauci discussed the possibility of having to cancel the entire MLB season Wednesday. Yankees president Randy Levine isn’t giving up, saying he believes everybody with a stake in Major League Baseball getting its season started should cooperate with each other. Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told …
  • Derek Jeter’s Baseball Hall of Fame induction moved to 2021

    Derek Jeter’s Baseball Hall of Fame induction moved to 2021

    There might still be baseball in 2020, but it won’t be in Cooperstown. Derek Jeter will have to wait another year for his Hall of Fame weekend, as the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced Wednesday this year’s induction ceremonies were canceled due to health concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hall’s board …
  • MLB season could start in July with Yankees, Mets in same division

    MLB season could start in July with Yankees, Mets in same division

    The plan is for July. MLB is growing more hopeful it is going to play games this season and — while multiple scenarios are still being hashed out and continue to change regularly with new information regarding combat of the coronavirus pandemic — the most constant roadmap has regular-season games being played by early July …
  • MLB teams to begin reaching out to fans about ticket refunds

    MLB teams to begin reaching out to fans about ticket refunds

    Many baseball fans should expect to hear their first dose of good news in a long time on Wednesday. No, the games aren’t returning quite yet. But some money will be. An industry source confirmed that, at Major League Baseball’s direction, the 30 teams will start reaching out to their ticket-buying fans on Wednesday afternoon …
  • Yankees’ title dependency on Zack Britton is getting bigger

    Yankees’ title dependency on Zack Britton is getting bigger

    Part II in a series analyzing the New York Yankees When Major League Baseball ended spring training on March 12 due to COVID-19, Zack Britton and his teammates were faced with a decision: Stay in Tampa where Hal Steinbrenner welcomed the defending AL East champions to work out at George M. Steinbrenner Field or flee …