{"id":34381,"date":"2022-06-03T00:40:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T00:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/yankees-nestor-cortes-leading-al-cy-young-race\/"},"modified":"2022-06-03T00:40:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T00:40:14","slug":"yankees-nestor-cortes-leading-al-cy-young-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/yankees-nestor-cortes-leading-al-cy-young-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Nestor Cortes leading AL Cy Young race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Nestor Cortes<\/strong>the AL Cy Young leader according to none other than teammate <strong>Gerrit Cole<\/strong>told me he has plenty of room in his trophy case should he win, adding his only previous awards were plaques as Miami Herald All-County first team high school picks (Hialeah High).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like your confidence,\u201d Cortes told me for posing the question.  But it&#8217;s Cole who says Cortes leads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s pacing the field,\u201d Cole said.  &#8220;I&#8217;m not [expletive] around. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>One person called <strong>Avisail Garcia Derek Jeter &#8216;<\/strong>s \u201cparting gift &#8216;to the Marlins, as the $ 53 million, four-year deal looks like a wild overpay.  \u2026 Jeter was said to want <strong>Nick Castellanos<\/strong>, and even after he left, the Marlins tried for the Miami area native, offering a three-year deal in hopes his late availability meant they could steal him.  No such luck;  he got $ 100 million from the Phils.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Velazquez<\/strong> will keep the Angels&#8217; shortstop job once <strong>David Fletcher<\/strong> returns.  Fletcher will play 2B.  &#8220;How did the Yankees let [Velazquez] go? &#8221;  wondered one Angels person.  \u2026 Some believe affable new Angels bench coach <strong>Ray Montgomery<\/strong> (Yonkers \/ Bronxville, Fordham) is manager-in-waiting in Anaheim.  &#8230; <strong>Aaron Loup<\/strong> said, \u201cI was hoping to be back\u201d with the Mets and kept trying to put off other teams before the Angels made it clear they had to have him, signing him for $ 17 million.  (The Mets offered about $ 12 million.)\u2026 Folks are amazed the Mets are expanding their lead without their two best pitchers \/ players.  Great teamwork going on there.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=NYPH3805475924\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Nestor-Cortes-cy-young.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Nestor Cortes pitches during Game 1 of Thursday's Yankees-Angels doubleheader.\" class=\"wp-image-22513323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Nestor-Cortes-cy-young.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Nestor-Cortes-cy-young.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Nestor-Cortes-cy-young.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Nestor Cortes pitches during Game 1 of Thursday&#8217;s Yankees-Angels doubleheader.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Corey Sipkin <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Gerrit-Cole-nestor.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Gerrit Cole\" class=\"wp-image-22513327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Gerrit-Cole-nestor.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Gerrit-Cole-nestor.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Gerrit-Cole-nestor.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Gerrit Cole<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Corey Sipkin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Teams are hopeful the Diamondbacks might trade <strong>Zac Gallen<\/strong> but understand they will keep him &#8220;unless they get an offer they can&#8217;t refuse.&#8221;  And this from a D-backs person: \u201cEveryone would want him.  Won&#8217;t happen. &#8221;  &#8230; <strong>Trevor Rosenthal<\/strong> recently hit 95 mph and is expecting to showcase for interested teams within a week or two.  &#8230; <strong>Andruw Jones&#8217;<\/strong> son <strong>Druw Jones<\/strong> remains a consideration at No. 1 for the Orioles, but the team also is heavily scouting Oklahoma high school shortstop <strong>Jackson Holliday<\/strong>son of <strong>Matt<\/strong>, among others.  O&#8217;s GM <strong>Mike Elias<\/strong> was a Cardinals exec when Matt starred there.  \u2026 Player of the Week: <strong>Paul Goldschmidt<\/strong>, Cardinals 1B.  Runners-up: <strong>Brendan Rodgers<\/strong>Rockies 2B; <strong>Francisco Lindor<\/strong>Mets SS.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nestor Cortesthe AL Cy Young leader according to none other than teammate Gerrit Coletold me he has plenty of room in his trophy case should he win, adding his only previous awards were plaques as Miami Herald All-County first team high school picks (Hialeah High). \u201cI like your confidence,\u201d Cortes told me for posing the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/yankees-nestor-cortes-leading-al-cy-young-race\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yankees&#8217; Nestor Cortes leading AL Cy Young race<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[388,5047,2326,614,295],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/newspress-collage-22513115-1654205746500.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&1654191432&w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}