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Byline: James Wagner A thrilling tournament ended emphatically with Shohei Ohtani striking out Mike Trout to give Japan its third W.B.C. crown. MIAMI - The matchup that many had dreamed [...]

Trea Turner’s grand slam gave the U.S. a come-from-behind win over Venezuela, setting up what should be a tense game against Cuba in Miami. MIAMI — The United States was [...]

Serving as general manager in addition to his hitting duties, Nelson Cruz assembled one of the best baseball lineups in recent memory for the World Baseball Classic. MIAMI — The [...]

San Francisco failed to sign Aaron Judge and backed away from Carlos Correa, but Michael Conforto and other additions hope to make the team better. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The San [...]

Manny Machado was issued a strike for not being ready in the batter’s box as baseball got its first look at a sped-up game. PEORIA, Ariz. — In the first [...]

Byline: James Wagner Freeman, a star first baseman for Atlanta, warmly greets opponents at first base. You might get a hug, you might get some advice and you might get [...]

Byline: James Wagner The Chicago White Sox have fully embraced a clubhouse culture led by a large group of Latino players. The support, along with the love, has helped power [...]

Byline: James Wagner The sport, absent from the Olympics since 2008, will not be played in the 2024 Paris Games, but is expected to return in Los Angeles in 2028. [...]

Byline: James Wagner Players in the farm system have long been vulnerable because they lack a union, and the coronavirus pandemic has only complicated things for them. A nonprofit is [...]

There was only one logical response in Frankie Wilton's mind. When Wilton, a lifelong Mets fan, read that his favorite team hadn't made an offer to re-sign pitcher Zack Wheeler, [...]

The 36-year-old outfielder was drafted by the team in 2005 and is now the last link in uniform to the 2009 championship team. SAN DIEGO -- Outfielder Brett Gardner, the [...]

At the deadline on Monday, the team decided not to extend a one-year, $17.8 million offer to Gregorius, which means they will receive no compensation if he signs with another [...]

Didi Gregorius broke out of his slump with a grand slam and Masahiro Tanaka was dominant on the mound as the Yankees cruised to a two-games-to-none lead in the A.L.D.S. [...]

Despite setting a major league record for players on the injured list, the Yankees used both their payroll and modern baseball acumen to win the division for the first time [...]

After inducing a double play to end a scoreless first inning, Luis Severino bounced off the mound with his usual swagger. A gold-colored chain swinging from his neck, Severino smacked [...]

On Tuesday night, Luis Severino will step onto a major-league mound for the first time this season. With just 11 games remaining before the playoffs, the Yankees will welcome back [...]

BOSTON -- Despite missing the entire season to date with injuries, Luis Severino will pitch in the playoffs -- before any of his Yankees teammates. Severino, the Yankees' most talented [...]

MOOSIC, Pa. -- Baseball players, even very good ones, have always come in all shapes and sizes. Look no further than Brett Gardner (5-foot-11) and Aaron Judge (6-foot-7), who patrol [...]

LOS ANGELES -- To understand how much of an anchor Gleyber Torres has been for the Yankees this season, look at the team's opening day lineup on March 28. Eight [...]

TORONTO -- Masahiro Tanaka watched from the dugout on Sunday afternoon, a towel around his neck and arms folded as he observed the final moments of the Yankees' game against [...]

Before this Yankees' season, Domingo German was fighting for a spot on the roster, either in the back of the rotation or in the bullpen, and D.J. LeMahieu was penciled [...]

To understand how seriously the Yankees have taken games against their division rivals, the Tampa Bay Rays, this season, consider Manager Aaron Boone's second-inning outburst in the first game of [...]

Just before the first half of the Yankees' season ended last weekend, Manager Aaron Boone was asked which player had surprised him the most. Twice he pointed to Gio Urshela, [...]

Byline: James Wagner It was early May 2018 and Alex Bregman, the Houston Astros' star third baseman, had only one home run on the season. His teammate Justin Verlander, one [...]

When Tony Clark turned 30 years old, he was coming off an All-Star season and earning $5 million, the highest salary of his 15-year major league career. Two years later, [...]

LONDON -- After Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman struck out the Boston Red Sox catcher Christian Vazquez with a 101-mile-per-hour fastball, his teammates converged in the infield for their usual victory [...]

The outcome of Sunday's game still hung in the balance when Clint Frazier's adventures in fielding re-emerged. The Yankees trailed their rivals, the Boston Red Sox, by one run in [...]

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The Yankees clung to a two-run lead against their division rival, the Tampa Bay Rays, in the top of the ninth inning here on Sunday afternoon [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- It has reached the point of this mind-boggling Yankees season that the fill-ins for the wounded regulars have been replaced by other fill-ins because of more injuries. [...]

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- A normal 24 hours around the injury-ravaged 2019 Yankees now looks like this: Welcome the return of an important player (catcher Gary Sanchez) from the injured list, [...]

For one night at least, the Yankees found a remedy to their early woes. No, they couldn't stop the relentless expansion of their injured list, which grew to 12 on [...]

Maybe there is such a thing as an injury bug. Before a rain-shortened 9-6 loss to the Chicago White Sox on Friday, the Yankees placed catcher Gary Sanchez, their best [...]

HOUSTON -- Jose Altuve, the 5-foot-6 star second baseman for the Houston Astros, long ago proved that height doesn't matter that much. He is a six-time All-Star, three-time batting champion [...]

BALTIMORE -- Gary Sanchez stepped to the plate in the ninth inning on Sunday with a chance at history. Four-homer games are more rare than perfect games, and Sanchez had [...]

The Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles occupy different ends of the competition spectrum. The Yankees possess a far more talented roster, World Series expectations and a payroll that is around [...]

After another playoff appearance that did not end with a World Series title, the Yankees pinpointed their pitching staff as an area for improvement. They threw money at relief pitchers [...]

Glorious daydreams abound on opening day, when each team's slate is clean and the season's inevitable trials and tribulations haven't yet piled up. But the images of winning a pennant [...]

TAMPA, Fla. -- James Paxton is a starting pitcher for the Yankees, not a statistics innovator. But during the 2018 season with the Seattle Mariners, before his off-season trade to [...]

TAMPA, Fla. -- When the Yankees' young slugger Aaron Judge looks up and down the team's roster, he sees many players like him. There's the soon-to-be-24-year-old third baseman, Miguel Andujar, [...]

Byline: JAMES WAGNER Passing through the airport immigration checkpoint on a trip home to the United States from South Korea, Henry Garcia responded truthfully when asked the reason for his [...]

Byline: JAMES WAGNER PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Jose Reyes, a Mets infielder, arrived in the major leagues at age 19, smirking at older players like John Franco, the timeless [...]

Byline: JAMES WAGNER BOSTON -- Behind just about every major league baseball player from the Dominican Republic is a game called vitilla. It is the country's version of stickball, and [...]

It has reached the point in the Mets' dispiriting season that every time Asdrubal Cabrera does not field a ball cleanly fans wonder if their shortstop of the future -- [...]

Byline: JAMES WAGNER Over the past few days, Mets Manager Terry Collins had a feeling it would come to this - that neck surgery to repair David Wright's herniated disk [...]

Byline: James Wagner WASHINGTON - As he struggled toggling between the Washington Nationals' rotation and bullpen last season, Tanner Roark kept telling himself that all he needed was consistency. Starting [...]

Byline: James Wagner WASHINGTON - History left a two-foot dent in the scoreboard at Nationals Park on Thursday afternoon. Just below section 240, the board was flashing an ad for [...]

Byline: James Wagner ATLANTA - The aging curve doesn't look kindly upon baseball players in their early-to-mid-30s, let alone 36 going on 37. But Jayson Werth has long considered himself [...]

Byline: James Wagner VIERA, Fla. - When Danny Espinosa runs out to the left side of the infield, something just feels right. The view of the game, the spin of [...]

Byline: James Wagner VIERA, Fla. - Jose Lobaton was opening a pile of fan mail at Nationals Park last season when he stumbled across a letter he had to share. [...]

Byline: James Wagner SURPRISE, Ariz. - Surrounded by his new teammates, Ian Desmond emerged from the Texas Rangers' clubhouse, walked to the nearby practice field, plopped down his bright blue [...]