Yankees take towering pitchers Ben Hess, Bryce Cunningham to start 2024 MLB Draft
NY Post
FORT WORTH, Texas — In the draft and perhaps nowhere else, the Yankees routinely are charged with doing a lot with a little. Their initial selection has not landed in the top half of the first round since 1993.
Their finds — like Aaron Judge at No. 32 in 2013 — are found after plenty of other clubs pass on that player.
The Yankees have to locate the gems that others overlook.
Their strategy Sunday appeared to be identifying what they hope is a market inefficiency: pitchers built like workhorses and with elite stuff, even if their command has not been harnessed.
First the Yankees lassoed pitcher Ben Hess from the University of Alabama with the No. 26-overall pick before taking another big righty, Bryce Cunningham out of Vanderbilt, in the second round of the draft at Cowtown Coliseum.
Both are strapping, and both will be projects.
SAN DIEGO — As you may have seen elsewhere in this newspaper (and also if you haven’t deleted me yet from your social media), I have a book coming out Tuesday called “The Bosses of The Bronx.” Much of it details the 37 years’ worth of antics, winning, losing, winning again and overall mania of George Steinbrenner’s time with the Yankees.
Don’t close the curtain on “Mean” Joe Greene.
The Knicks are on a five-game winning streak and flooded with concerns.
Dylan Garand knew the number off the top of his head. He knew that, between the regular season and playoffs, he’d logged over 160 games with AHL Hartford, and he was right. Before the Rangers recalled him Friday, Garand had served as the Wolf Pack’s goaltender 165 times.
SAN DIEGO — As you may have seen elsewhere in this newspaper (and also if you haven’t deleted me yet from your social media), I have a book coming out Tuesday called “The Bosses of The Bronx.” Much of it details the 37 years’ worth of antics, winning, losing, winning again and overall mania of George Steinbrenner’s time with the Yankees.
The Knicks are on a five-game winning streak and flooded with concerns.
Don’t close the curtain on “Mean” Joe Greene.
The hockey world is getting a new TV adaptation of another romance series that helped define the genre.
What is there about Giants edger ushers and their fixation with single-digit jersey numbers?
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.
Legal problems continue to follow ex-NHLer Billy Tibbetts.
After legendary Mets broadcaster Howie Rose announced his retirement Thursday, he took to social media to send a message to fans in Queens.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The special teams battle was up for grabs Thursday night.