Jose Trevino

The New York Yankees got a lot more than anyone excepted in March when they made a trade with the Texas Rangers for Jose Trevino, a platoon catcher last ...

“I love New York,” Trevino said. Trevino conversed from behind the plate with Cortes while the lefty was pitching the sixth and he told Shohei Ohtani stories from first base in the sixth after he singled in his first All-Star at-bat. “I remember acquiring Jose in spring training and the talk was he’s a good framer, a good catcher,” Yanks All-Star left-hander Nestor Cortes said. Trevino is the opposite. The first Yankees’ chapter in Trevino’s book is a page-turner. Cole clicked last year with Higashioka, but he’s been more consistent this season with Trevino catching most of his starts. “He’s very caring,” Cortes said. By late April, Trevino had replaced Higashioka’s as No. 1 starter Gerrit Cole’s personal catcher and was getting about 60 percent of the starts. Trevino split the receiving with Jonah Heim about 50-50 last year, but the Rangers traded for a new starter on March 12, the day the lockout ended. Stanton earned the trophy hitting a 457-foot homer with a man on in the fourth that tied the game 2-2, but Trevino was just as entertaining playing the last five innings, some of it while he was mic’d up for FOX’s telecast. To get Mitch Garver from the Minnesota Twins, the Rangers had to give up a shortstop that that Yankees were trying to deal for, Isiah Kiner-Falefa. He’d always been a good defensive catcher who had a little pop offensively, but he knew he had to up his game.