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Aaron Boone still confident in the quality of the Yankees’ at-bats; Mike Ford demoted to Triple-A; Luis Gil developing as a starter; D-Rob on U.S. roster as Americans try to qualify for the Olympics; Yankees acquire Cannon

The Yankees offense hits an absolute wall, gets swept by the Tigers, and makes us lose our minds.

The Yankees have sure enjoyed playing on Memorial Day over the last 30 years.

Zack Britton throws sim game; Yankees named one of the teams who could target Trevor Story; What could Cole, Stanton, and Chapman’s Hall of Fame cases look like?; Clint Frazier tweaks his stance

Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge finally came through, but he admits he's been "terrible" lately.

Hitters streaks of homering in consecutive games By JohnW53 on May 8, 2021, 4:48am CDT + Only the Yankees (16,350) and Giants (14,804) have hit more. The Cubs have hit at least 1 homer in as many as 17 consecutive games. They have homered in at least 10 straight games 5 games in a row. Intriguingly, neither have the Braves, who had hit the fourth most total homers, 14,047. Nor have the Dodgers, Phillies or Reds. That makes 5 of the 8 National League teams that existed before 1962...

April 29, 2021 It would be inaccurate to say that the Yankees suddenly have a catching controversy, but only because the situation has been building for years, and already came to something of a head last fall. While Gary Sánchez burst onto the scene a few years ago as one of the game’s top backstops, he has struggled mightily in three years out of the past four, to the point that he started just two of the team’s seven postseason games last October and was nearly non-tendered last Decembe...

3 Yankees on the hot seat, including Clint Frazier Updated 11:10 AM; Facebook Share CLEVELAND — Things are looking up for the Yankees. They have won three in a row. On Saturday night, their ace Gerrit Cole bested reigning American League Cy Young Award winner Shane Bieber. They’re finally hitting home runs again. Still, there are players who are sitting on seats with varying degrees of warmth just 20 games into the year. If they don’t pick it up, and fast, the could be finding themselves...

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports Clint Frazier has been taking an awful lot of strikes. So far this season, Clint has swung at pitches in the zone less frequently than almost any other batter in the league. Headed into Saturday night’s game against Cleveland, Clint had swung at 54.5% of pitches he’s seen in the strike zone. More than discerning, that zone swing % puts him in the bottom five percent among players with at least 25 plate appearances in 2021. There are just a dozen players who ha...

What Yankees think of Clint Frazier’s deepening struggle Today 7:00 AM Yankees outfielder Clint Frazier was hitting just .156 after Friday nights 5-3 win over the Indians at Progressive Field. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)AP Facebook Share CLEVELAND — It was a better night for Clint Frazier. Though the Yankees left fielder finished hitless in two at-bats, he walked twice and he nearly crushed a two-run home run, except his long fly in the second inning landed harmlessly just in front of the center...