Jorge Posada was in his first full season as a pro baseball player, transitioning from infielder to catcher while at Single-A Greensboro in 1992. Naturally, he had heard about one of the Yankees’
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... ada said. “I went quiet after that.” Their careers took similar paths up the Yankees’ system. Jeter took Posada’s roster spot at Triple-A Columbus in 1994 when P ...
It didn’t take Dick Groch long to see Derek Jeter wasn’t an average high school prospect when he first saw him at an All-Star camp in Michigan before Jeter’s junior year. “When you’re
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... hose are the two places you want a right-handed hitter to hit the ball to in Yankee Stadium. When he hit the ball, you could tell it was his choice. He hit the ...
Whenever players, scouts, coaches, managers or executives discuss Derek Jeter, they always circle back to this comment. “Derek Jeter played the game right.’’ Those words can be appreciated now
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... 0 postseason home runs. see also The little-known, sad side of Derek Jeter's Yankee Stadium farewell Derek Jeter’s dramatic Yankee Stadium farewell, you might r ...
Sportsbooks are offering futures and regular-season win totals earlier than ever. They benefit from publicity, and tourists backing their favorite teams when visiting for special events. If you’re
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... nt seasons without bangs and whistles. NL East: Braves 92, Nationals 90¹/₂ , Mets 86¹/₂, Phillies 86¹/₂, Marlins 64. The Mets are dealing with managerial issu ...
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... ₂ for the Yankees is by far the best in the American League, and tops the Dodgers for best in ...
Derek Jeter’s dramatic Yankee Stadium farewell, you might remember, didn’t go down as his last appearance in a major league uniform. Two more brief appearances at Fenway Park followed before the
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... Derek Jeter’s dramatic Yankee Stadium farewell, you might remember, didn’t go down as his last appearance ...
Imagine attending, say, your favorite musician’s farewell concert and all of a sudden comes a brand new, legendary hit. Or you need not imagine it. You can just rewatch Derek Jeter’s final game at
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... ood enough, you’d think. see also Derek Jeter may get his own street outside Yankee Stadium Yankee fans may soon be able to meet outside the... Except then Davi ...
As if this week in MLB couldn’t get crazier. On the heels of the Astros cheating saga that has rocked the sport, the league and union on Friday dismissed an unsupported claim that Angels superstar
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... sources within MLB and has no evidence behind it.” Scott Brosius, the former Yankees third baseman, was the Mariners’ third base coach in 2018 — the Angels and M ...
Let the trolling begin. Aroldis Chapman became the first current Yankee to poke fun at the Astros’ cheating scandal on Friday. The closer posted a popular GIF on Twitter of Michael Jackson eating
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... Let the trolling begin. Aroldis Chapman became the first current Yankee to poke fun at the Astros’ cheating scandal on Friday. The closer posted a p ...
Could Jacoby Ellsbury be coming out of his two-year hibernation? The Cubs are at least considering bringing the former Yankee in, according to MLB Network’s Jon Heyman. Heyman described it as a
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... two-year hibernation? The Cubs are at least considering bringing the former Yankee in, according to MLB Network’s Jon Heyman. Heyman described it as a “long sh ...
The more details emerge from the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal, the angrier CC Sabathia gets. The retired southpaw let loose in a recent podcast, spewing a series of curses. The cheating saga from
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... ’17, we should have won the World Series,” Sabathia, who was just hired as a Yankees special adviser after retiring, said in comments transcribed by NJ.com. “I d ...
The Yankees struck a deal with Derek Jeter’s Marlins on Wednesday, trading reliever Stephen Tarpley to Miami in exchange for minor league third baseman James Nelson and cash considerations. Tarpley,
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... was mostly ineffective in 21 games for the Yankees last season, allowing six home runs in 24 ²/₃ innings. He had a 6.93 ERA and ...
The Yankees endured a season in which they saw 30 different players head to the injured list for a record 2,433 days lost, and the man in charge of changing that reality, Eric Cressey, has begun his
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... his time actually with the team will be somewhat limited. He said he’d be at Yankee Stadium at least once per homestand, as well as at Fenway Park. It was at Fe ...
