NEW YORK —David Bednar goes by “El Oso Blanco” in the Yankees clubhouse, courtesy of the club’s Spanish speakers. It might be a joke to be called The White Bear, but not really. Not if you saw Bednar ...

ARLINGTON, Texas — Aaron Boone wasn’t going to do it. The New York Yankees’ manager left the dugout intending to remove reliever David Bednar, who was struggling and had already thrown a season-high ...

Before he took over as the closer of the New York Yankees, before he became the local-boy-turned-All-Star with the Pittsburgh Pirates, David Bednar worked the most important save of his life on an ...