Some Yankees Players Upset With YES Network Video Of Tanaka Injury

The video of Tanaka's injury was a YES clip recorded by a local journalist and shared by an SNY accountgetty images

Several of the Yankees’ young star players are "irritated" that a YES Network video of P Masahiro Tanaka taking a line drive to the head "went viral on Saturday," according to Dennis Young of the N.Y. DAILY NEWS. The video that circulated "widely on social media Saturday evening was a YES clip recorded by a local journalist and shared by an SNY account, although neither YES nor the Yankees promoted any footage of the injury." The Mets and the Wilpon family own SNY. Yankees RF Aaron Judge and SS Gleyber Torres were "unhappy about the video and tweeted about it," and at least four other players "shared the posts." But Young noted the video of the injury "was newsworthy, aired on live television, and was witnessed by the Yankees beat." The video "aired on MLB Network later Saturday and was also shared by the channel’s Twitter account" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 7/5).