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Nelson Cruz, Ian Kennedy announce their retirements fro🎐m MLB

Former top Yankees prospect Ian 🌄Kennedy is hanging up his cleats after 17 seasons in the majors that culminated in the veteran hurler winning the 2023 World Series with the...

Closer's emergence comes with fantasy baseball concern

After a 2019 season in which he recorded🌱 30 saves in 34 opportunities, Kennedy was 0-2 with no saves and an ugly 9.00 EඣRA over 15 appearances for the Royals...

Crowded NL could blow up MLB's trade market

The National League i𒐪s what we thought it would be. The weekend began with 14 teams either in a playoff position or within 4 ¹/₂ games of one. Wither the Marlins,...

Yankees' mini-streak goes up in smoke after listless loss to Royals

In a time when repurposing is h♎ip, the Yankees attempted to use rolled-up wet copies of The Post as bats Thursday night against the Royals’ Homer Bailey. All that did...

Hasty waiver moves can doom your fantasy baseball season ꦰ

There is nothing more frustrating in fantasy baseba𝓀ll than when your team gets off to an ice-cold start. You spent countless hours researching players, analyzing statistics and studying the positions...

A guide to the fantasy bas✃eball aces hiding on the waiver wire

Finding an ace on the waiver wire at this point in the season would be like winning a free trip around the world after winౠning Mega Millions and later finding...

The best time to gr🥂ab pitchers in fantasy drafts reveaꦉled 

The debate about whether or not you need to draft an ace early is a time-honored tradition🐠 in the fantasy world. Many experts will tell you to grab a top-tier...

Verlander deal? Astros all-in? Why MLB hot stove could be trade-heav👍y

ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ There is a growing sense among executives that the trade market is going to be active this offseason fue༺led by these factors: 1. Arguably the worst free-agent starting-pitching class ever...

 Fantasy baseball: Check out these starters for stretch 💟run

Unless you’re 35 games be𒐪hind the first-place team in your league, there is still time to make up ground. This is the beginning of the f🌌inal push. The final countdown,...

The very pricey anchor tied to Dodgers' attempt for Wade Davis

Earlier this week, Royals GM Dayton Moore told me, “Ian Kennedy has been exactly what we thou﷽ght.” The former Yankees right-hander has missed a bunch of🐎 bats (9.2 strikeouts per...

 Yankees’ꦉꦦ last 10 top draft picks is a litany of disaster 

The Yankees have the No. 18 pick in the MLB Draf💦t, which begins Thursday night. Here’s an (unsightly) glimpse at how the Yankees’ top picks the past 10 years 😼have... 

How the Yankees' last great draft (before years of failure) came together

The Yankees have not draftꦰed well. There is pretty much no way to sugarcoat that. But if you care for some perspec💯tive: Aside from the Red Sox, no other AL...

Padres slink away from spotlight after high-profile disaster 𝔍

PEORIA, Ariz. — The Padres have reentered baseball’s witness protectio꧂n program. For a few heady months last year, San Diego went from non-contending and nondescript to the most talked about...

Big spenders line up for MLB's largest arms race ever

BOCA RATON, Fla. — This projects as the offseason to address rotation shortcomings. There has arguaওbly never been a deeper pool of free-agent starters, plus next year’s crop is essentially...

Padr💧es pump brakes on shopping Ian Kennedy♏

The Padres, an aggressive early seller, have slowed down and might merely make a small deal sending away outfielder Chris Denorfia and holding onto starter Ian Kennedy. Keꦜnnedy had been...

 Ya💮nkees scouting Ian Kennedy for possible trade reunion

Having already completed a dꦦeal with the Padres for third baseman Chase Headley, the Yankees are monitoring what the NL West club is going to do with right-hander Ian Kennedy...

Four pitching trade targets that make sense 🥀for Yankees

Let’s play junior detective and see if we can figure out what the Yankees might be trying to do in the trade market. First, you do not have to be... ꦆ

Former Yanks, Mets finding fantasy love 🧸

For some 𝐆players, being out of the bright, shiny New York spotlight is all it takes to make things click. For some, going to a smaller market is all it...

꧑ With Sabathia out until summer, Yankees eye pitching mꦰarket

Jason Hammel and Jeff Samardzija are the Yankees’ o🐲pponents for their two-game series at Wrigley Field. They also are auditioning. Because if it wasn’t o💫bvious before, the Yankees are clearly...

Wily Tigers got best of Curtis Gr𓄧anderson trade

Not long ago, it wouldꦉ not have been at all wishy-washy to see the trade that brought Curtis Granderson to the Yankees as a three-way tie. After all, as recently...