His childhood friend, catcher J.C. Escarra, made the Yankees’ Opening Day roster, capping a long journey that included ...

“When I was driving Uber, I had no idea the people that were getting in my car,” Escarra said before the Yankees’ 4-2 Opening ...

J.C. Escarra’s winding path through professional baseball included a detour to gig work as a ride-share driver.

Escarra wasn’t the only newcomer to the Yankees’ roster with a fatherly connection to their first Opening Day with the club.

JC Escarra was not too proud to take any odd job he could to make ends meet. Once a first baseman in the Baltimore Orioles ...

The catcher was an Uber driver and substitute teacher to help pay his bills while grinding through independent ball for two ...

J.C. Escarra is a Major League Baseball player. Escarra, 29, is a career minor leaguer who called his mother on Saturday ...

The New York Yankees called up J.C. Escarra to the major league after the catcher was living 'paycheck to paycheck' and ...

J.C. Escarra played in independent leagues and took odd jobs to keep alive his dream of being in the big leagues. At 29, he's ...

JC Escarra, who not that long ago worked as an Uber driver and substitute teacher to pay the bills, is making the Big Leagues ...

Escarra, who played for four different independent league teams in 2022 and 2023 after being released by the Orioles — and ...

"There was a time that I was going to hang it all up," Escarra said. "I believed it was time to move on and see what's next.