J.C. Escarra
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| 4/28/25 | Yankees’ J.C. Escarra lives another ‘dream’ with first home run: ‘It can’t get better than this’. There was a time, not too long ago, when no one would have even thought to ask J.C. Escarra for his autograph. On Sunday night, however, the former Uber driver and substitute teacher’s signature was all it took to acquire a personal artifact, as Escarra traded a signed bat to the Yankees fan who caught the first home run ball of the backup catcher’s career. “We’re gonna get that authenticated ... Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/article/yankees-j-c-escar... |
| 4/28/25 | J.C. Escarra helps solidify fairytale Yankees story with breakout game. J.C. Escarra's journey from Uber driver to backup catcher for the Yankees got another chapter on Sunday, as he homered for the first time in his major league career in a 5-1 win over Toronto in a doubleheader sweep in The Bronx. Escarra took ex-Yankee Chad Green deep to the right field seats with two outs in the bottom of the eighth to give the Yankees a bit more of a cushion. “I didn't feel the ball off the bat,'' Escarra said. “It was amazing.” J.C. Escarra celebrates his first MLB home run on April 27, 2025. Jason Szenes / New York Post And he said there was even more meaning to the blast because he hit it at Yankee Stadium. “It's special that I did it here at home,'' Escarra said. “This is Source: https://nypost.com/2025/04/28/sports/j-c-escarra-h... |
| 4/28/25 | Yankees rookie has unforgettable night, but he's more than feel-good story. J.C. Escarra repeated it back to himself, standing in the Yankees' clubhouse on Sunday night. Maybe it was Escarra's way of pinching himself, making sure the ball he was holding was real and that the 415-foot moonshot he crushed to the bleachers in right-center an hour or so earlier wasn't a figment of his imagination. After all, Escarra had been dreaming about his first big-league home run — while wearing pinstripes — for as long as he can remember. Unless you're Bryce Harper or Paul Skenes, even the highest-ranked prospects and first-round draft picks spend years in the minor leagues. Source: https://www.nj.com/yankees/2025/04/yankees-rookie-... |
| 4/27/25 | J.C. Escarra drives one out of the park, his first career home run. Yankees backup catcher JC Escarra's jagged path to the big leagues became well known to fans during his rise up the club's depth chart in spring training. Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/article/j-c-escarra-drive... |
| 4/04/25 | After career detours as Uber driver and substitute teacher, Yankees' J.C. Escarra gets first big league hit. J.C. Escarra pulled a changeup into the right-field corner, slid into second base, popped up and punched the air. After a meandering minor league career that took detours to Mexico and Puerto Rico and included a release that led to part-time work as an Uber driver and substitute teacher, he got his first big league hit three weeks shy of his 30th birthday. Escarra started his first big league game Thursday night, catching in the New York Yankees' 9-7 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks. Source: https://www.dailylocal.com/2025/04/04/after-career... |
| 4/03/25 | Yankees' 29-year-old rookie JC Escarra collects his first MLB hit. The Yankees' feel-good story of spring training, J.C. Escarra notched his first career MLB hit on Thursday against the Diamondbacks. Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/article/yankees-29-old-ro... |
| 3/31/25 | New Yankee (former Uber driver) J.C. Escarra is treated to NY-style surprise. Now that J.C. Escarra is a bona fide Major Leaguer — the 29-year-old found out he made the Yankees roster on March 22 — he's finding out what it's like to get special treatment. Like he did during a recent night out with his wife, Jocelyn. The group ordered one of the pizzeria's famously thin-crusted “Tie Dye” pizzas, which is topped with three sauces: their version of a classic marinara, creamy vodka sauce, and a fragrant basil pesto that guests usually swirl on themselves. It was quite the edible masterpiece. Source: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/culture/entertainm... |
| 3/28/25 | J.C. Escarra embraces wife on Opening Day after Yankees roster surprise. J.C. Escarra will never forget MLB Opening Day 2025. Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/article/j-c-escarra-embra... |
| 3/28/25 | EXCLUSIVE: Yankees player's mom recalls what she was thinking when he told her he made the team in viral video. The calendar hasn't yet turned to April, but one of the more memorable moments of the Major League Baseball season has already taken place. New York Yankees backup catcher J.C. Escarra went viral last weekend after he appeared in a video telling his mother on a phone call he made the team, prompting her to cry in delight and disbelief while he also fought back tears. A one-time draft pick by the Baltimore Orioles who has played several seasons in the minor leagues, Escarra, 29, has never played in a major league game, working as an Uber driver, substitute teacher and baseball coach to make ends meet while he chased his dream. Source: https://www.today.com/parents/new-york-yankees-jc-... |
| 3/27/25 | Once a ride-share driver, J.C. Escarra takes an Uber to Yankee Stadium for his first game in MLB. J.C. Escarra’s winding path through professional baseball included a detour to gig work as a ride-share driver. When it was time to head from his midtown Manhattan hotel to Yankee Stadium on Thursday for his possible major league debut, the 29-year-old catcher and infielder called for a car. “I've never taken an Uber to Yankee Stadium, so it was cool to see the views, the bridge, Yankee Stadium from afar.” Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/article/once-ride-share-d... |
| 3/25/25 | Hialeah baseball player named to Yankees' Opening Day roster gets hometown welcome at exhibition game against Marlins - WSVN 7News. A local baseball player who is officially playing for the New York Yankees received a warm hometown welcome at an exhibition game against the Miami Marlins. Yankees catcher J.C. Escarra said his entrance into the Big Leagues did not happen overnight. When off the baseball field, he worked as an Uber driver and a substitute teacher to make ends meet. Source: https://wsvn.com/sports/miami-marlins/hialeah-base... |
| 3/24/25 | New York Yankees catcher J.C. Escarra tells his mother he made the team in emotional video. J.C. Escarra is a Major League Baseball player. Escarra, 29, is a career minor leaguer who called his mother March 22 after he found out he had made the New York Yankees roster as a backup catcher when the team breaks spring training and begins its 2025 regular season. "We're going to New York," he told his mother in a video the team shared on social media, prompting her to squeal in delight. "I can't believe it, my love," his mother said after what sounded like a mix of laughing and crying. Source: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/mlb/new-york-ya... |
| 3/22/25 | J.C. Escarra officially lands spot on Yankees’ Opening Day roster. 29-year-old catcher J.C. Escarra has officially been informed he's made the Yankees' Opening Day roster. Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/article/j-c-escarra-offic... |
| 3/19/25 | J.C. Escarra still can't believe his 'surreal' Yankees moment could soon be here. J.C. Escarra still can't believe his 'surreal' Yankees moment could soon be here By Greg Joyce Published March 19, 2025, 7:41 p.m. ET J.C. Escarra has likely locked up a Yankees roster spot. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post Access the Yankees beat like never before Don't miss Greg Joyce's text messages from spring training — he's giving Sports+ subscribers the inside buzz on the Yankees. Sign Up Now CLEARWATER, Fla. — J.C. Escarra can't lie. As much as he is trying not to, he cannot help but think about what the next week might have in store for him, the news that should get delivered to him when camp breaks, the likely reward at the end of a long journey for the former Uber driver . With just Source: https://nypost.com/2025/03/19/sports/j-c-escarra-c... |
| 3/13/25 | J.C. Escarra strengthening case for Yankees' backup catching job after 'a lot of slammed doors'. Access the Yankees beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees from spring training Try it free LAKELAND, Fla. — The competition is not over, but J.C. Escarra is making an awfully strong bid for the Yankees' backup catcher job. The 29-year-old entered camp with a leg up on veteran Alex Jackson because Escarra already cracked the 40-man roster, and probably with a leg up on Ben Rice, who does not have the reputation behind the plate that Escarra has. (Rice could also find his way onto the roster as a DH bat and backup first baseman.) Escarra has done nothing to lose the spot and Source: https://nypost.com/2025/03/14/sports/j-c-escarra-s... |
| 3/09/25 | Yankees spring hopeful making case to play big role. J.C. Escarra is a candidate to make the Yankees' Opening Day roster as a backup catcher and he's been swinging a hot bat this spring. AP By Max Goodman | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com The Yankees were already high on J.C. Escarra leading up to camp. Escarra had a huge season on both sides of the ball in the Yankees' farm system last year, opening eyes after an improbable and inspiring journey through pro ball. MORE YANKEES COVERAGE Yankees ramifications of Gerrit Cole doomsday injury scenario Will Warren or Yankees trade? How Gerrit Cole will be replaced What Yankees are doing to address their spring from hell Yankees non-roster starter impressing as he climbs rotation depth chart Yankees' latest Source: https://www.nj.com/yankees/2025/03/yankees-spring-... |
| 2/18/25 | The promise and peril behind the Yankees' leap of faith at catcher. Joel Sherman The promise and peril behind the Yankees' leap of faith at catcher By Joel Sherman Published Feb. 18, 2025, 6:30 a.m. ET Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images TAMPA — My favorite type of column to write from spring training appeared in Sunday's Post about J.C. Escarra . Don't get me wrong. You can always learn more about Gerrit Cole or Aaron Judge. It is part of the job to take the familiar and find out new information or see a different or more entertaining or more timely way to present someone you already know so much about. But to find the mostly unknown with a great back story — an underdog story at that — and keep digging and learn more and more interesting details, that is spring Source: https://nypost.com/2025/02/18/sports/the-promise-a... |
| 2/15/25 | J.C. Escarra out to write 'unbelievable story' from Uber driver to first MLB chance with Yankees. hardball Joel Sherman J.C. Escarra out to write 'unbelievable story' from Uber driver to first MLB chance with Yankees By Joel Sherman Published Feb. 15, 2025, 11:09 a.m. ET Yankees catcher J.C. Escarra (79) participates in spring training workouts at George M. Steinbrenner Field. Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Access the Yankees beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees from spring training Join NOw It is impossible. Because J.C. Escarra washed out after five minor league seasons with the Orioles. They drafted him 458th overall in 2017, and soon after took away his catching Source: https://nypost.com/2025/02/15/sports/j-c-escarra-o... |
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