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Exclusive | Why Yankees hitting coach James Rowson isn’t worried ‘at all’ about alarming offensive woes

Nypost · · 199 words · By Dan Martin
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What to know about Impact of Aaron Judge's Injury

Even before the Yankees were shut down by Atlanta right-hander Grant Holmes on Sunday, they entered with some alarming numbers since Aaron Judge was sidelined by a fractured rib at the end of May.

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What happened

Even before the Yankees were shut down by Atlanta right-hander Grant Holmes on Sunday, they entered with some alarming numbers since Aaron Judge was sidelined by a fractured rib at the end of May.

Why it matters

They’d scored the fourth-fewest runs, had the lowest batting average and on-base percentage and highest strikeout rate in the majors.

Common ground

Prior to Sunday’s game, hitting coach James Rowson acknowledged the lineup’s struggles in a conversation with The Post, but insisted the picture wasn’t as bleak as the numbers might indicate.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “They’d scored the fourth-fewest runs”
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While evidence confirms Aaron Judge's injury and the Yankees' general struggles, no specific statistic in the provided evidence confirms they scored the 'fourth-fewest runs' since the injury.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Aaron James Judge (born April 26, 1992) is an American professional baseball right fielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is an eight-time MLB All-Star and three-time Amer…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Judge
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Michael Aaron Persky (born March 7, 1962) is an American attorney and former judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court from 2003 to 2018. In 2016, Persky gained national attention after his ruli…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Persky
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Aarón Sánchez (born February 12, 1976) is a Mexican celebrity chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, television personality host, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the executive head chef and part…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarón_Sánchez_(chef)
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Claim 2: “Aaron Judge was sidelined by a fractured rib at the end of May”
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Multiple sources confirm Aaron Judge suffered a fractured rib. While one source mentions the injury occurred April 26, another notes his production dropped significantly starting May 7, and another mentions the injury in the context of the end of May/early season rehab.
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web search NEUTRAL — The club said Judge, who suffered a stress fracture of the first rib on his right side earlier in the season, will undergo more imaging and progress with his rehab in the meantime.His production dropp…
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7452549/2026/07/17/aaron-ju…
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web search NEUTRAL — - Searching for silver linings in baseball’s pause due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Yankees have spoken frequently about the additional time that Aaron Judge has for his fractured right rib to hea…
https://www.mlb.com/news/aaron-judge-yankees-recovery-fractu…
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web search NEUTRAL — Aaron Judge believes he sustained his rib fracture diving for a ball on April 26 in Houston,AP Photo/Scott Marshall. Set as Google Preferred Source.Although Judge didn’t know it at the time, the impac…
https://www.nj.com/yankees/2026/06/yankees-aaron-judge-revea…
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Claim 3: “the Yankees were shut down by Atlanta right-hander Grant Holmes on Sunday”
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MLB.com explicitly reports that Grant Holmes threw six shutout innings against the Yankees on 08/09/2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 1999 New York Yankees season was the 97th season for the Bronx-based Major League Baseball team. The team finished with a record of 98–64 finishing 4 games ahead of the Boston Red Sox. New York wa…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 New York Yankees season was the 123rd season for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. They entered the season as the defending champions of the American League East and the America…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball as a member club of the American League (A…
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Claim 4: “hitting coach James Rowson acknowledged the lineup’s struggles in a conversation with The Post”
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The evidence mentions Jon Heyman of The Post writing about the need for better hitters, but there is no specific mention of hitting coach James Rowson acknowledging struggles in a conversation with The Post.
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web search NEUTRAL — The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball as a member club of the American League (A…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Yankees
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web search NEUTRAL — The official website of the New York Yankees with the most up-to-date information on news, tickets, schedule, stadium, roster, rumors, scores, and stats.
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web search NEUTRAL — The official scoreboard of the New York Yankees including Gameday, video, highlights and box score.
https://www.mlb.com/yankees/scores
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Claim 5: “had the lowest batting average and on-base percentage”
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The provided evidence mentions general issues with hitters surrounding Judge, but does not provide specific league-wide rankings for batting average or on-base percentage during the period in question.
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web search NEUTRAL — Tigers Yankees Baseball. An injured New York Yankees' Aaron Judge looks on from the dugout during the third inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Tuesday, June 30, 2026, in New York.
https://www.nj.com/yankees/2026/07/yankees-have-date-in-mind…
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web search NEUTRAL — — New York Yankees (@Yankees) July 9, 2023. German had been performing exceptionally well, allowing just one hit in six innings, which came in the form of Seiya Suzuki’s home run to left field in the …
https://pinstripesnation.com/error-prone-yankees-admit-the-c…
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web search NEUTRAL — Brian Cashman has many Yankees’ issues to fix this offseason, but finding better hitters to surround Aaron Judge is the biggest one, The Post’s Jon Heyman writes. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/23/yankees-have-many-issues-to-fi…
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Claim 6: “highest strikeout rate in the majors”
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One web search result explicitly states that the Yankees 'have the highest strikeout rate in all of baseball in that span' (referring to the period where Judge and Stanton were missing), but no second independent source corroborates this specific stat.
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web search NEUTRAL — The New York Yankees shared an injury update on Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton during the Blue Jays series.They have the highest strikeout rate in all of baseball in that span as well.
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/just-bad-yankees-offense-1…
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web search NEUTRAL — New York Yankees All-Star Cody Bellinger will need to be productive across the final weeks of the regular season.According to Baseball Savant, Bellinger ranks in the 89th percentile in terms of walk r…
https://clutchpoints.com/mlb/new-york-yankees/why-cody-belli…
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web search NEUTRAL — New York Yankees Odds. MLB Picks and Predictions.Cashman polled at a 41-percent approval rating in both April and May as the Yankees were neck-and-neck with the Rays for the division lead, led by a pa…
https://www.pinstripealley.com/pinstripe-alley-discussions/1…
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.