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Yankees get passionate over the myth of Gary Sanchez
TAMPA — Perception wins with Gary Sanchez and that perception is of indifference, which is part of the explanation of why he is so poor at blocking balls and the...
Yankees' plan to fix Gary Sanchez's problem begins with a wristband
Last Thursday, Gary Sanchez used a wristband during a spring training game for the first time. It was a concept the Yankees discussed last year in an attempt to offset...
Rising Yankees prospect wins a job, but which one?
LAKELAND, Fla. — Inside the Yankees’ organization, Tyler Wade had a chance to grab an Opening Day roster spot despite competing with stud prospect Gleyber Torres. Early in camp, it...
Luis Severino turns a fake, empty game into something special
TAMPA — This is where the seeds are planted, just past 9 o’clock in the morning on the first day in weeks when the temperature wasn’t already careening toward 80...
Inside the Dellin Betances nightmares he thinks are cured
TAMPA -- First comes a ball. Not just any ball, but one so far up and out of the strike zone as to associate it with a stumble or slip...
Betances reveals offseason plan for regaining his dominance
Every year, following the holidays Dellin Betances trades the harsh New York winters for the Dominican Republic’s warmth. There, the four-time All Star reliever punishes his 6-foot-8, 265-pound frame with...
Yankees turn attention toward filling out Boone's coaching staff
Carlos Mendoza and Reggie Willits are under consideration to join new manager Aaron Boone’s coaching staff. Mendoza, 38, recently completed his fifth year as the Yankees’ minor league infield field...
Yankees will keep at least one familiar face in the dugout
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Yankees will have a new manager but will keep continuity with at least the same pitching coach. Larry Rothschild is going to fill the position for...
How MLB's ball rules have launched a homer conspiracy
LOS ANGELES — On Sunday afternoon, talk of slicker baseballs — more hitter-friendly baseballs, ultimately — dominated the World Series. Then the Astros and Dodgers went out and combined to...
What's next for Yankees coaches now that Girardi's gone?
With Joe Girardi out as the Yankees’ manager, what next season’s coaching staff will look like is a guess at this point. The contracts for all the Yankees coaches expire...
Severino's not going to give the Yankees a reason to take him out
HOUSTON — Luis Severino isn’t going to even raise an eyebrow on the mound Friday night in Game 6 of the ALCS against the Astros. When Severino moved his valuable...
The behind-the-scenes heroes of the Yankees' pitching success
Whenever Joe Girardi was asked about Aaron Judge and Gary Sanchez struggling in the postseason, the Yankees manager would immediately remind people they weren’t facing slop-throwing Quadruple-A pitchers. “Teams that...
Severino's task is clear: 'Get 21 people out'
Look at it this way: There’s no way Luis Severino can be worse than he was in the wild-card game, right? The Yankees are counting on the right-hander’s ability to...
The Yankees' most expensive 'mystery' needs to be solved
BOSTON — A Yankees lead already had been blown when Aroldis Chapman entered Friday night’s game at Fenway Park. There already was pinstriped despair prior to Chapman’s appearance because the...
CC Sabathia is exactly what Yankees ordered as East gets tight
BOSTON — Larry Rothschild sat at a table in the middle of the cramped Fenway Park visitor’s clubhouse Sunday between the first and second game of a doubleheader against the...
All the things that could be wrong with Aroldis Chapman
BOSTON — In the wake of Aroldis Chapman turning a win into a loss Friday night, when he had difficulty finding the strike zone, many opinions floated throughout Fenway Park...
Masahiro Tanaka is suspicious about these 'juiced' balls
No one had surrendered more homers in the American League heading into Tuesday night than Masahiro Tanaka. And he’s not the only big name to have been affected by the...
Yankees may be pushing — but not pulling — Masahiro Tanaka
The losses are mounting. The runs continue piling up. Masahiro Tanaka seems no closer to correcting his issues on the mound than when they first surfaced nearly one month ago,...
Masahiro Tanaka's struggles can be traced to 1 missing ingredient
TORONTO — Those who believe Masahiro Tanaka, in the worst skid of his Yankees career, can be fixed by overhauling every aspect of the struggling right-hander’s game should save their...
The old man behind a crafty Jordan Montgomery survival
BALTIMORE — After Jordan Montgomery’s shortest outing of his brief major league career, CC Sabathia still came away impressed. “He battled again without his best stuff,” Sabathia said after Montgomery...