Meet the under-the-radar players primed to ease the pain of Yankees’ injury-filled spring
NY Post
It is March. That means there is Madness (more on that later), and that means there is reason for hope within every baseball club.
At every camp in Florida and Arizona there is optimism that this season will go better than expected. The Marlins, who will assuredly be awful, can envision Sandy Alcantara dominating and arms like Thomas White shooting through the system to join the ace. The Rockies, who will assuredly be awful, can envision Brenton Doyle taking a leap to both All-Star and leader for a team that surprises. In all 30 spring training locales, there is legitimate reason for belief.
Yes, even within the Yankees’.
The most crushing camp in recent memory has seen the loss of Gerrit Cole for the season, top prospect Chase Hampton for the season, Giancarlo Stanton for an indefinite amount of time, Luis Gil for months, DJ LeMahieu for at least a while and a lengthy list of relievers for varying amounts of time. (On Sunday, Clarke Schmidt was scratched from his scheduled start, adding to the list of pitching woes.)
A tumultuous road trip ended Saturday night with Karl-Anthony Towns bolting to the locker room while his teammates were on camera hugging Draymond Green.
The Bengals have come to agreements on contract extensions with Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins, keeping the wide receiver duo in Cincinnati for the next four years.
Former Ranger Filip Chytil is in concussion protocol after he took an ugly hit on Saturday night from Blackhawks forward Jason Dickinson.
The goal is to earn Super Bowl rings and the Jets added three of them on Sunday with the signing of defensive tackle Derrick Nnadi.
The Knicks didn’t exactly send a strong message to Draymond Green after his controversial comments about Karl-Anthony Towns.
Making back-to-back starts for NHL goaltenders has become the equivalent of recording complete games for major league starting pitchers: long ago and forgotten, other than in ballads of glory.
J.B. Bickerstaff has had enough.
SARASOTA, Fla. — The question was not yet finished, but a big grin had already broken out on Carlos Lagrange’s face.
SAN FRANCISCO — During one of the more disappointing performances of his Knicks career, Josh Hart got into a heated argument with Tom Thibodeau in the fourth quarter Saturday.
First the Nets lost their best scorer. Then they lost a heartbreaker to basketball’s best team.
Kirk Cousins is staying in Atlanta — for now.
The Nets will be without one of their top stars for the rest of the season.
With a future Hall of Famer visiting their building, the Giants made two depth signings.