
The Yankees are figuring out the other half of the puzzle
NY Post
Despite the evidence presented over the first few weeks of the regular season, Aaron Judge won’t win the Yankees the AL East title by himself.
Not even with the cheat-mode numbers he has put up during the Yankees’ 12-7 start — an OPS of 1.283, which pretty much mirrors the absurd stats Judge delivered over the final five months of 2024 (1.265 OPS).
Judge’s combined 1.272 OPS from last April 27 through this Wednesday dwarfs even Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani’s 1.010 in the same span, which itself is out of a video game.
But even with all that, Judge wasn’t in right field in the top of the ninth inning against the Royals on Wednesday, when Fernando Cruz gave up a screaming line drive to MJ Melendez with Maikel Garcia representing the tying run on second base.

Cade Cunningham, almost inarguably the best player in the East this season, is likely out for the remainder of the regular season. That’s the word out of Detroit following the depressing news that Cunningham punctured a lung when he took a knee to his side Tuesday from Washington’s Tre Johnson while chasing a loose ball.

Wednesday was another positive day at Yankees camp. For the first time since March 6, 2025 — an outing in which he knew “something wasn’t right,” which began a weeks-long saga that ended on the operating table for Tommy John surgery — Gerrit Cole was back on a mound and facing hitters in game action.











