
Three questions Yankees need answered as second half of season approaches
NY Post
The Post’s Dan Martin looks at three questions facing the Yankees as they begin the second half of their 2024 season.
An 8-18 finish to the first half knocked the Yankees out of first place in the AL East and raised some serious red flags throughout the roster, from the starting rotation, the lineup and just about everywhere in-between.
They staggered in the second half a year ago, missing the postseason, and fell off badly following a near-historic start in 2022.
The difference this season, they hope, is the presence of Juan Soto, as well as a healthy Aaron Judge.
If that’s not the case, expect the heat to rise on Aaron Boone, who has a team option to return to the dugout in 2025.
Whatever improvements the Yankees want to make to the roster need to happen by July 30.

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.











