Jay Bruce retired Sunday after a 14-year career. His problem was not when his career ended but when it began. As a left-handed pull hitter without much speed, Bruce came along at the wrong time.

The first time I met Jay Bruce was in the parking lot beyond the outfield at Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota, Fla., during spring training in 2007. I knew who Bruce was, of course, he was the team's ...

Jay Bruce, who spent less than three weeks with Yankees, is retiring after Sunday's game. He played 13 seasons with three All-Star appearances.

MIAMI — Jay Bruce never lost faith in the process. He couldn’t. The Mets outfielder went through one of the worst slumps of his career after a life-changing trade, and yet he still had … ...

Jay Bruce knows his stat line looks a little … odd. The 12-year big-league veteran is putting together an offensive performance that is a historic anomaly. Through 80 games this season with the ...

PORT ST. LUCIE — Jay Bruce has one main regret from his ugly debut with the Mets, and it likely isn’t what you would think. “I probably would have tried more diligently to find a place to ...

Bruuuuuce: It's a sound that Reds fans bellow every time Jay Bruce steps up to the plate. Outsiders may think the noise is some sort of "boo." The reality is quite the opposite—Bruce is a vital ...

Jay Bruce has lived through it. His rookie season, in 2008, was the first year the revolutionary pitch-tracking system, PITCHf/x, was installed in every major-league stadium.

Bruce insisted repeatedly that his awful 2016 performance (.219/.294/.391 in 50 games) with the Mets, upon getting traded from the Reds, might have resulted from the dizziness of getting dealt for ...

BALTIMORE — Jay Bruce wants to forget this season ever happened. As the veteran outfielder begins a minor-league rehab assignment at Single-A St. Lucie that could have him back at Citi Field … ...

Jay Bruce might be a right fielder or a first baseman, at the tail end of a bad season or the onset of a precipitous decline, a Met next year or not. “I don’t think anything is written in ...