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When the New York Yankees drafted University of Utah shortstop Core Jackson in the fifth round in July, they were aware that he had drawn a swastika on the dorm room door of a Jewish student in 2021, when he was a 17-year-old freshman at the University of Nebraska. Jackson voluntarily called teams to tell them about his actions before …

TAMPA — It is once again time to embark on another 72-hour craze over the legitimacy of the Yankees’ bats and how they are changing the sport. That is what happens when they club a franchise-record nine home runs, in case you had forgotten. For the second time this season, the first sparking the torpedo bat fad after the second …

The New York Yankees have had their issues this season, but power isn’t one of them. With nine homers in a 13-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday, New York tied a franchise record set earlier this year. They also finished just one long ball shy of the MLB record of 10, held by the 1987 Toronto Blue …

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Giancarlo Stanton and Cody Bellinger both hit two home runs, Aaron Judge launched his 40th of the season and the New York Yankees matched a franchise record with nine longballs Tuesday night in a 13-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays. Judge, Bellinger and Stanton went back-to-back-to-back in the first inning to give the Yankees a 3-0 …

TAMPA — The Yankees have trifected the trifecta. For the third time this season, the Yankees crushed back-to-back-to-back home runs — happening in the first inning all three times — on Tuesday night at Steinbrenner Field. Aaron Judge, Cody Bellinger and Giancarlo Stanton each went deep against Rays right-hander Shane Baz in a span of seven pitches. Judge clobbered his …

TAMPA — As they try to scrap their way back to the top of the AL East, the Yankees have enough to worry about these days. But with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred mentioning the potential for expansion and realignment on Sunday, there is the intriguing thought of the Yankees playing in a new division alongside the likes of the Red …

TAMPA — A few hours after Aaron Boone said the quiet part out loud — that Aaron Judge may not get “back to throwing like he normally does” the rest of the season as he deals with a flexor strain — the Yankees manager tried to backtrack slightly. “Maybe that’s a little [overstated],” Boone said. But Judge did not seem …

The New York Yankees are still in limbo as they wait for Aaron Judge’s flexor strain in his right arm to heal fully. Yankees manager Aaron Boone delivered the latest — and most concerning — update during appearances Tuesday morning on WFAN and Jomboy Media’s “Talkin’ Yanks” podcast. Boone told WFAN that the Yankees are trying to get to a …

Call it the Ea$t division. Following Rob Manfred’s recent comments about MLB expansion that would lean into Eastern and Western conferences, one often-circulated proposed four-team division would be a heavyweight quartet featuring the Yankees, Mets, Phillies and Red Sox. Such a division would feature the second-, third- and fourth-highest payrolls in MLB this season in the Mets, Yankees and Phillies, …

It was apparently a “freak accident” that led to Mariano Rivera’s injury during the Yankees Old Timer’s Day game, Andy Pettitte said during an appearance on WFAN on Saturday.  At the time, it wasn’t immediately clear how Rivera ended up injured, but Pettitte said that it happened during a fly ball.  Mariano Rivera plays during the first inning of the …