What You Need To Know: Boston Bats Isolated Atop MLB

If they continue to mash and rake like this, the Boston Red Sox need a catchy nickname like “Bronx Bombers.”

Cold Takes: Invisible Suffering

What to make of Yankees third basemen and submarine inhabitants.

What You Need To Know: Oh, that Ohtani!

Shohei Ohtani debuts impressively. Brian Goodwin is positively grand. Ichiro still has it.

What You Need To Know: Opening Day ’18 Means Dingers

Dingers, dingers everywhere! Home runs apparently rule again in 2018, at least on Opening Day.

Rumor Roundup: Bird, LeBlanc, Bourjos and Colon

Rumor Roundup: MLB Silences Judge on Machado

The first rule of tampering is never talk about another team’s player coming to yours: A lesson Aaron Judge of the Yankees now understands after MLB admonished him for “encouraging” Manny Machado to leave the Orioles.

Rumor Roundup: Cobb, Arrieta and Walker

Alex Cobb still doesn’t have any takers, Jake Arrieta takes things slow with the Phillies, and the Yankees add infield depth with Neil Walker.

Table For Two: Previewing the New York Yankees

Do the Yankees have enough starting pitching? Or will Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge just bash teams into submission?

Rubbing Mud: Sliding and Cutting with the Yankees

Prospectus Feature: Selling it to the Judge