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It took four days, but Sam Darnold's contract standoff is finally history after he, his agent Jimmy Sexton and the Jets agreed to terms on a $30 million contract over four years. In addition, the Jets rookie quarterback will earn a $20 million signing bonus , which he can recoup right away in the next 15 days. In case you are wondering that equates to about $.1.333 million a day. Not bad at all. In return, Darnold and his agent concede to the Jets wish to include off-set language in the deal that prevents the quarterback from "double-dipping" should the Jets cut him within the first three years of the deal. Secondly, the language that voided guarantees in the deal based on fines for any on-field/off-field incident was removed from the contract. When Darnold finally got on the field, his Jets teammates clapped as he made his way to to begin stretching with the other quarterbacks, Josh McCown and Teddy Bridgewater.   Pinned Tweet Manish Mehta ‏ Verified a...

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Just when you thought it was safe to come out and play football, the Same Ole Jets rear their ugly heads.  It might be only one day of training camp, but the Jets are still without their rookie quarterback Sam Darnold who is holding out as both the Jets and his agent iron out contract details.  This is incredibly disappointing for New York. The Jets have been propped up as one of the league's most improved teams, with many so-called pundits and talking heads saying they won the draft when they drafted Darnold third overall.  Last time I checked championships were not won on draft day.  Darnold's holdout only hurts a young player who needs to get on the field to receive important reps with the first team. Now he is a full day or more behind, and there is no sign (at least right now at 4:54 p.m. on a Friday) that this hold out will end.  What's most frustrating is that most rookie deals are already in place thanks to the CBA. He would receive a ...

For one night Yankee fans saw their hopes and dreams of a World Series Championship flash before their very eyes. Aaron Judge, by all accounts the leader of this ball club, will miss the next three weeks with a fractured wrist, an injury he sustained on a 93 mph fastball that struck his arm in the first inning of last night's Royals-Yankees game. Judge stayed in the contest until he was removed for a pinch hitter in the fourth inning. The only sliver of good news for the Yankees is that Judge will not require surgery. However he can't swing a baseball bat for a month. The Yankees (65-36) are in a dog fight for the American League Wild Card with the Seattle Mariners (61-41) and Oakland A's (61-43) right on their heals. With Judge out until at least late August, that means New York will need everyone else to step up big time. Judge leads the Yankees in home runs (26), RBI (61) and total bases (204). The next closest to that production is Giancarlo Stanton. With 23 hom...

Can the New York Jets finally take the right steps in the AFC East this year? Not likely, but the Jets, Bills and Dolphins are all hoping that the New England Patriots run of success comes to an end this season. Preview below!

The Yankees finally made their trade for a starting pitcher. The Yankees agreed to terms with the Toronto Blue Jays to acquire JA Happ for infielder Brandon Drury and minor league outfielder Billy McKinney. Considering the speculation that the Yankees would have to part with either Justus Sheffield, Miguel Andujar, or Clint Fraizer in any deal, the Yankees made out pretty good here. They kept their top prospects and acquired a starting pitcher that can help them down the stretch. Happ was 10-6 with a 4.18 ERA in 20 starts for the Blue Jays this season. The 11-year veteran is well traveled having played for the Phillies, Pirates, Mariners, and Astros as well. What attracted the Yankees to Happ more than a Jacob deGrom, per say, was the fact that he came cheap, and is an expiring contract. Even if Happ does nothing for the Yankees down the stretch, they don't have to keep him beyond the month of October. There is some concern though with Happ now in the fold. He has not pitch...

Less than a week after being activated from the disabled listed, the Mets have shut outfield Yoenis Cespedes down for the rest of the season so he can undergo surgery to remove bone calcifications from his right and left heels this week. Green Bay based Dr. Robert Anderson will perform the surgery. Cespedes will need 8 to 10 months to recover from the surgery, meaning he could be out deep into the 2019 season. Cespedes started complaining about pain in his feet following Friday’s game against the Yankees, where he had two hits, including a homerun in his first game back off the disabled list. Cespedes had an MR on Monday in New York, which revealed the sore bone calcifications. According to the Mets, the pain forced Cespedes to alter his gait in an attempt to manage the discomfort, which has resulted in stress and injury to other parts of his legs. The consensus among the team doctors and specialists is that all conservative treatment options to manage the pain hav...

The Yankees are going to be without their catcher for at least a month, if not longer after the club announced Gary Sanchez aggravated a groin injury and will need to be placed on the Disabled List. The announcement comes after Sanchez was excoriated on social media and sports talk radio for being a lazy player for not running out a ground ball in the ninth inning against the Tampa Bay Rays. Had Sanchez reached first safely, the Yankees would have tied the game.  The truth is, he was injured. Sanchez said he felt tightness in his groin when he got out of his crouch to chase down a passed ball. The injury forced Sanchez to slow up as his missed a baserunner who scored from second. When asked about his struggles from Monday Sanchez said, " When the other team scores runs and you have the game on the line and you end up basically losing the game because it's your fault, you feel really bad about that," Sanchez said through an interpreter. "You feel bad for your te...

The Yankees have made a deal for a pitcher. No it is not Jacob deGrom, or Cole Hamels, or J.A. Happ. No the Yankees still haven't addressed the biggest issue facing them for the rest of this season. But the team did bolster its bullpen by acquiring Baltimore Orioles closer Zach Britton for minor league prospects Dillon Tate, Josh Rogers and Cody Carroll -- meaning the Yankees didn't have to deal any of its top prospects to make the trade happen. That is a huge plus. If anything adding Britton to the bullpen keeps him away from the Red Sox, Astros and Mariners who are all bullpen starved at this point in the year. Britton can now slot into a Yankee bullpen that is already deep and is already considered by some to be the best in Major League Baseball. Britton has been pretty solid this year for an Orioles team that is among the worst in baseball to date. His 3.45 ERA was sixth best on the team, and he only pitched in 16 games this season. Now Britton joins a bullpen th...

Remember the movie Groundhog Day ? That would describe the New York Mets and injuries. As they used to say in the Peanuts cartoon, "Good Grief, Charlie Brown." Bizarre would be an understatement when describing the recent rash of injuries that have inflicted the Mets in the past 24 hours. First it was Yoenis Cespedes who revealed that a heel injury has contributed to his quad and hip flexor injuries, a procedure that would require surgery and 8 to 10 months of rehab. Now the Mets got another doozy on Sunday involving Noah Syndergaard. According to interim General Manager John Ricco, Thor was placed on the disabled listed with hand, foot and mouth disease. The Mets have called up Corey Oswalt to take his place in the rotation. Ricco is hopeful that Syndergaard will miss only one start. The virus might explain why Sydergaard was inconsistent with his velocity, which only toped 94 mph on his fastball by the fifth inning. While Syndergaard held the Yankees to onl...