"Milwaukee was short lived but wow what a group of gritty players and blue collar organization," Cortes wrote on Instagram Aug. 1 after he was sent to the San Diego Padres in a trade deadline move.

Nestor Cortes, in his first relief appearance since 2021, looked as sharp as he has all season on Saturday, tossing 4 ⅓ no-hit innings to finish off a 2-0 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field.

Cortes has come so far since then. Fourteen months after that dreary night in Rochester, Cortes was here at Dodger Stadium, the toast of the All-Star Game for the New York Yankees.

The Yankees didn’t offer Nestor Cortes life-changing money when they used a 36 th-round draft pick on the Hialeah High School product in 2013. Still, his parents encouraged him to do what he ...

Nestor Cortes again was strong — continuing a trend of excellent work from a Yankees’ rotation even without Gerrit Cole — in a 3-1 loss to the A’s in The Bronx on Thursday.

SEATTLE — Nestor Cortes stood at his locker with a box cutter in his hand as he opened packages of new baseball cards when he was approached for an interview. “Be careful what you ask ...

UPDATED: February 16, 2024 at 3:35 PM EST TAMPA — Like so many Yankees, Nestor Cortes had his 2023 season derailed by injuries. He initially entered spring training with a hamstring strain.

Nestor Cortes throws at Yankees spring training on Feb. 17. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post Thirty years later, Boone offered a fine runner-up as Cortes ended up going to Dodger Stadium as ...

Nestor Cortes Jr. got a new tattoo over the offseason, making a permanent record for the nickname he received while pitching for the Yankees last season: Nasty Nestor. “You only get to have a ...