Tag: Andrew Benintendi

COVID-19 Vaccinations Add New Twist to MLB Trade Deadline

PHOENIX—This is always a stressful time of year for Major League Baseball’s 30 general managers, who are evaluating talent, juggling financial implications and trying to figure out ways to make their teams better as Tuesday’s trade deadline approaches. Now there’s another factor in the wheeling-and-dealing calculus—COVID-19 vaccination status. “It’s certainly one of the things that’s…


Benintendi Won’t Say Whether Will Get Vaccinated With Yanks

NEW YORK—Andrew Benintendi wouldn’t say whether he will get vaccinated for COVID-19 now that he’s with the first-place New York Yankees rather than the last-place Kansas City Royals. A day after New York acquired the 28-year-old All-Star from the Royals for three minor league pitchers, Benintendi went 0 for 4 with a strikeout in his…