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This might help explain Aroldis Chapman’s signature fastball. The star Yankees closer looked swole as ever in a picture he shared to Instagram Saturday, showing himself on the far right alongside a few friends playing dominoes. Chapman has spent some of baseball’s coronavirus-induced break bulking up, as shown by another social-media photo of the 32-year-old …
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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. Can we expect Gleyber Torres to continue his ascent this year? Any chance the Yankees consider locking …
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Since 1988, Damon Oppenheimer has been scouting high school and college baseball players while married to the same routine of flying or driving to evaluate players and then repeating the process in the next town. This year the Yankees’ VP of domestic amateur scouting has another challenge in front of him: There are players eligible …
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Jacob deGrom would have thrown one of the first pitches of the 2020 season, shortly after 1 p.m. Thursday. Perhaps 20 minutes later and 205 miles to the south of Citi Field, Gerrit Cole would have unleashed the first pitch of the rest of his life. So much is being lost to the coronavirus pandemic. …
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Instead of being at Camden Yards where the Yankees were to face the Orioles on Opening Day on Thursday, Aaron Boone, seaking by phone, answered a weird question on “The Michael Kay Show”. Kay said listeners call the show and insist the Yankees have to move Aaron Judge from right field to first base to …
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Aaron Boone provided injury updates about a handful of Yankees on Wednesday, much as he would before any game. Aaron Hicks has started a throwing program at his home in Arizona in his comeback from Tommy John surgery and James Paxton is continuing his program in Wisconsin following back surgery. Aaron Judge, who Boone believes …
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The radio voice of the Yankees, John Sterling, 81, will not be broadcasting on what was supposed to be Opening Day on Thursday. “This is the most unusual thing that has occurred in all of our lives,” Sterling told The Post. “There have been other scares before, but they weren’t worldwide. This is so important, …
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There are only so many Opening Days. Only so many first ones, like Luis Rojas was going to experience at Citi Field on Thursday. Only so many when you think you have a stacked team, like Aaron Boone believed he possessed. In separate conversations with The Post, both men said they still think there is …
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A record for players used has been set every year since 2013, up to 1,410 in 2019. Where did they all come from? The Post put all 1,410 back on their original teams and over the next three days we will examine which organizations have done the best at bringing talent into their pipeline — …
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If Florida officials enact a stay-at-home policy, the Yankees who have been at George M. Steinbrenner Field could be forced to stop working out and receiving treatment. That would likely lead to Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, DJ LeMahieu, Tyler Wade, Clint Frazier, Miguel Andujar and Luis Severino with the challenge of finding a place to …
This might help explain Aroldis Chapman’s signature fastball. The star Yankees closer looked swole as ever in a picture he shared to Instagram Saturday, showing himself on the far right alongside a few friends playing dominoes. Chapman has spent some of baseball’s coronavirus-induced break bulking up, as shown by another social-media photo of the 32-year-old …
