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MLB Trade Rumors | Simon Hampton: Entering the season with Aaron Hicks, Oswaldo Cabrera, and a bunch of recent minor signings battling it out for the starting left field gig doesn't sound entirely optimal. However, it's starting to become a more likely option. Hampton goes through the Yanks' offseason priority list when it comes to left field,…

NEW YORK - It was about as ideal as an offseason day as it could have been for Harrison Bader. He visited Yankee Stadium early in the day. Then the Yankees center fielder traveled to Liebman's Deli in the Bronx - just five minutes from where he graduated from Horace Mann School. While he was there, the 28-year-old slammed some pastrami with chef…

Monday marks a new recruiting landmark for college football programs. The transfer portal has officially reopened allowing college players to release themselves from their national letters of intent and transfer to new schools. Meanwhile, programs must keep their high school recruits committed as other schools try to purge them down the stretch,…

Newsday | Erik Boland: The Yankees have several needs to fill during the offseason, most notably retaining Aaron Judge and Anthony Rizzo while upgrading shortstop, third base, and left field. Brian Cashman feels comfortable about his starting pitching, however. "I feel good about going into the wintertime having [Gerrit] Cole, Nestor [Cortes],…

Yankees five-tool prospect Jasson Dominguez had quite a season jumping from Low A to High A to Double A. The 20-year-old Dominican switch-hitter put on a show at the Futures Game blasting a long homer at Dodger Stadium and was the hitting star of the Somerset Patriots' Eastern League championship run with a.450 average, three homers and 10 RBI in…

WFAN | Ryan Chichester: The lead story comes from an old friend, as Ryan relays a report from Jon Heyman stating that the Yankees are willing to top Aaron Judge's preseason ask of $36 million per year. The two sides could not reach an agreement over the spring with the Yankees offering seven years, $213.5 million for a total of eight years, $230.5…

Rutgers returns to a place where it has some good memories from its last trip out. The Scarlet Knights (4-5, 1-5) face Michigan State (4-5, 2-4) on Saturday at Spartan Stadium, where they played the first game of head coach Greg Schiano's second stint to start the 2020 season. In front of an empty stadium at the height of the coronavirus pandemic,…

The Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies are set to kick off the 2022 World Series on Friday night, and the matchup promises to be an exciting one. While much of the baseball world will be focused on the Fall Classic, many MLB players, teams and agents are looking past it. Several high-profile players will become free agents once the final out…

NEW YORK - Yankees first baseman Anthony Rizzo has a $16-million decision to make this offseason. He could opt into the second year of his deal in New York. Or he could become a free agent and seek a bigger payday. On Friday, Rizzo said he won't allow the question to enter his mind until the winter. "Early November," he told NJ Advance Media on…

For one last season, Rutgers must go through the gauntlet that is the Big Ten East. The conference released the schedule for its 2023 schedule on Wednesday, confirming a report from The Athletic's Scott Dochterman earlier in the week that the current division structure will remain next fall despite months of discussion of their removal. That change…

MINNEAPOLIS - The Big Ten has yet to announce a venue for Rutgers basketball's second meeting with Michigan State this upcoming season, but Tom Izzo spoke about the contest with no doubt about where it will be played. The Spartans' Hall of Fame coach confirmed at Big Ten Media Days on Wednesday that he and Scarlet Knights head coach Steve…

NEW YORK - There's homework every day and every night for the last man on the Yankees' Division Series roster, the one position player who probably won't get an at-bat or play the field unless one of the games in this best of five gets crazy. Journeyman outfielder Tim Locastro, up again from Triple-A for the most important time of the season, is…

If you go by the records, the stats, the experience, the recent head-to-heads … if you go just by all of that, it would be easy to think the Yankees should handle the Cleveland Guardians in their upcoming best-of-five American League Division Series. Yankees in four? Sweep? Not so fast. Sure, the Yankees won 99 games to the Guardians' 92 plus five…

TORONTO - Reggie Jackson isn't slowing down at age 76. The Hall-of-Fame slugger and Yankees great constantly is on the move traveling from his two California homes to Texas to minor league ballparks around the country. Following a surprising breakup with the Yankees before the 2021 season, Jackson landed another upper management position with a…

TORONTO - Aaron Judge didn't homer, but his power was on display elsewhere Sunday night. ESPN pressured MLB officials to wait out an already long and particularly nasty rain delay between the Yankees and Red Sox at Yankee Stadium because the network was desperate to air Judge getting at least one more at-bat in his chase of 61 home runs, a person…

NEW YORK - Red Sox outfielder Alex Verdugo looked like he was ready to do some late-night clubbing standing at his locker following Friday night's 5-4 Yankees win. After showering and dressing, he wrapped one of the thickest diamond-laced chains you'll ever see over his neck, then pulled out diamond earrings that were as big as molars and stuck…

NEW YORK - Did you see the Triple-A lineup that the Yankees' used (and won with) in Game 1 of Wednesday's doubleheader sweep of the Minnesota Twins? A bunch of injuries forced manager Aaron Boone's hand, but he started five players who spent most of the season with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre - Ronald Guzman at first base, Oswald Peraza at…

Long before Gerry DiNardo became an analyst recognized across Big Ten country, before he was a head coach at Indiana and two SEC schools, he was an All-American offensive lineman on a national championship-winning Notre Dame team who went on to coach the offensive line at Colorado and Eastern Michigan. The 69-year-old Brooklyn native's fruitful…