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NY Post
New York Post
9 Nov 2023


NextImg:Donald Trump searches rally crowd for Yankees’ Nestor Cortes after name drop

Nestor Cortes can count himself among those with a Donald Trump nickname all his own.

The Yankees lefty received a shoutout from the 2024 presidential hopeful, who seemed to believe Cortes was in the crowd at his Hialeah, Florida, rally on Wednesday night.

“And a great pitcher for the New York Yankees, they call him ‘The Hialeah Kid,’ Nestor Cortes,” Trump said in a now-viral clip.

“Where is Nestor? He’s a great pitcher, got that fastball.”

It is unclear if Cortes was actually in attendance, though the 28-year-old is indeed from Hialeah, where his family relocated from Cuba after winning the visa lottery.

Cortes struggled in 2023, finishing his injury-plagued season at 5-2 with a 4.97 ERA and 1.25 WHIP in 63 1/3 innings.

He was slated to take the bump on Aug. 11 at Miami’s loanDepot Park, though a second stint on the injured list due to a rotator cuff strain kept him from the homecoming he envisioned in his first start in Florida.

“Hopefully there’s a lot of ticket requests for when I pitch,” Cortes told The Post’s Greg Joyce. “Just going back to when [fellow Hialeah product] Gio Gonzalez was with the Nationals and he would go to Miami every year, as a high schooler growing up, watching your hometown hero pitch, hopefully I can have that impact.

Nestor Cortes got a special shoutout from Donald Trump on Wednesday night.
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“Hopefully somebody at Hialeah is looking up to me and has that same feeling I had.”

There is hope that Cortes will return to the form that earned him All-Star status — and saw him finish eighth in Cy Young voting — in 2022, a breakout campaign in which he went 12-4 with a 2.44 ERA and .922 WHIP.

The Yankees will need all the help they can get coming off the franchise’s worst season since 1992.

 Former US President and 2024 Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Ted Hendricks Stadium at Henry Milander Park in Hialeah, Florida
Former US President and 2024 Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Ted Hendricks Stadium at Henry Milander Park in Hialeah, Florida.
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Cortes will be part of a rotation that includes likely 2023 Cy Young winner Gerrit Cole and a healthy Carlos Rodon with some slots still to be filled out.

He’ll come into training camp with a brand new nickname, to boot.