{"id":677650,"date":"2026-06-01T10:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/677650\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:18:12","slug":"yankees-news-j-c-escarra-tries-switch-hitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/677650\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees news: J.C. Escarra tries switch-hitting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yahoo! Sports | Billy Heyen<\/a>: During Saturday night\u2019s game, Michael Kay revealed on the YES Network that Yankees backup catcher J.C. Escarra has been trying to become a switch-hitter. Recognizing that the team\u2019s search for a right-handed catcher puts his roster spot in jeopardy, the former Uber driver has once again set out to do whatever it takes for him to stay in The Show. Whether or not this turns out to be successful \u2014 starting to switch-hit at the Major League level is already a tall task, let alone trying it in the middle of a season \u2014 you can\u2019t help but admire Escarra\u2019s tenacity.<\/p>\n

New York Post | Greg Joyce<\/a>: The biggest story of the season in the Bronx is probably Cam Schlittler<\/a>, but a close second is definitely the continued breakout of Ben Rice<\/a>. Following Saturday night\u2019s game, the Yankees first baseman was not only tied with captain Aaron Judge<\/a> with 17 home runs, his 1.047 OPS ranked second in the league only behind Yordan Alvarez<\/a>. His teammates and his manager have been nothing short of impressed, with Judge calling his at-bats \u201cmust-watch TV\u201d (something that has been said about Judge\u2019s on more than one occasion) and Paul Goldschmidt<\/a> praising his \u201cability to make adjustments.\u201d<\/p>\n

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CBS Sports | RotoWire Staff<\/a>: Prior to Saturday night\u2019s game, the Yankees placed utilityman Amed Rosario<\/a> on the paternity list. They did not announce a corresponding move; instead, the team has played with a short bench while finishing out the West Coast road trip.<\/p>\n

MLB.com | Sweeny Murti<\/a>: Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the famous \u201cNo, stay there!\u201d moment, when Mike Mussina ordered Joe Torre not to emerge from the dugout and allow him to finish what he had started. To mark the milestone, Sweeny Murti talked with both pitcher and manager, dissecting a moment of passion that has become a meme not only within the baseball Internet world, but beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Sports | Billy Heyen: During Saturday night\u2019s game, Michael Kay revealed on the YES Network that Yankees…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4260,32843,27449,295493,1994,2934,175274,18916,363,33824,369,32033,99,276132,295492,79537,162248,30936],"class_list":["post-677650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-judge","tag-amed-rosario","tag-ben-rice","tag-billy-heyen","tag-cam-schlittler","tag-getty-images","tag-j-c-escarra","tag-michael-kay","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-post","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-paul-goldschmidt","tag-sports","tag-sutter-health-park","tag-sweeny-murti","tag-the-athletics","tag-yes-network","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}