It’s the final offday of the 2025 Major League Baseball season, and tomorrow could be the end of the road. The Blue Jays won Game 5 last night to surprisingly take two out of three in LA despite the 18-inning marathon loss. The Dodgers’ repeat dreams are on life support ahead of Game 6 on […]
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The Athletic | Andrew Marchand: ($) In case you missed it, the YES Network made some major changes to its announcer lineup for 2026. The big headline is the exit of John Flaherty, who will not return after a 20-year run with YES as an announcer and analyst. Part-time analysts Jeff Nelson and Dave Valle […]
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With the World Series still going on, we’re not quite at a point where we’re getting player moves yet; however, Wednesday saw at least one roster shaken up. Earlier today, John Flaherty released the news that the YES Network was not renewing his contract for next season. In addition to that, Andrew Marchand at the […]
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With the departure of Juan Soto last winter, the only thing left — besides an American League pennant, which isn’t nothing — left in the Bronx from the trade with the Padres was Trent Grisham. In the deal, the Yankees took on Grisham’s salary to get the Padres to accept a lesser prospect package than […]
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It was always going to be tough for anything to top Monday night (and into Tuesday morning) in Game 3 of the World Series. The 18-inning back-and-forth battle that ended with Freddie Freeman’s walk-off home run will go down as one of the more memorable games in World Series history, no matter how things play […]
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The Blue Jays showed Shohei Ohtani is mortal last night, getting to Ohtani for four runs over his six innings in a key Game 4 victory. It was an impressive show of resilience, Toronto shrugging off defeat in Monday night’s legendary Game 3 to even the World Series, leaving us with a three-game set to […]
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New York Post | Joel Sherman ($): Sherman’s been breaking down all the major free agent decisions the Yankees will have to make this winter, and today the topic is centerfielder Trent Grisham. The mustachioed man was one of baseball’s biggest surprises in 2025, with 34 home runs and a 3.2 fWAR. Despite that, there […]
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Not so long ago, I found myself thinking about this AL MVP race, and particularly how, in pretty remarkable ways, the productions from both Aaron Judge and Cal Raleigh transcend the usual standard for this award. Whoever misses out on the award will do so with a historic season, and while it won’t be the […]
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Since Mark Teixeira retired at the end of the 2016 season, the New York Yankees have tried — and failed — to find a long term first baseman. Despite a promising cup of coffee in 2015, Greg Bird was beset by injuries and was out of the picture completely after 2019. Luke Voit took the […]
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All the best stories are trilogies. The Iliad and the Odyssey weren’t complete until Vergil penned the Aeneid seven hundred years later. It took three books for Frodo to get the ring to Mount Doom. Steve Rogers’ character arc reached its natural conclusion after three films when he turned his back on the government that […]
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The third week of the Arizona Fall League is now in the books! As a reminder, the Yankees’ representatives this year for the Mesa Solar Sox are Bryce Cunningham, Cade Smith, Brady Kirtner, Coby Morales, Hueston Morrill, Manuel Palencia, Adam Stone, and Enmanuel Tejeda. Here’s how they performed in their third week in the desert: October 21st […]
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After a couple of opposing games to open up the 2025 Fall Classic, the Dodgers and Blue Jays found themselves knotted up in a 1-1 tie. Despite the nature of this World Series’ first two games, Game 3 would be a nailbiter all the way through. There were no pinch-hit grand slams or complete games, […]
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The World Series gave us an instant classic on Monday, as the Dodgers outlasted the Blue Jays in an 18-inning affair that required all hands on deck from each team’s respective benches and bullpens. Several members of this Dodgers team can remember the 18-inning marathon they fought in the 2018 World Series against Boston — […]
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Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across Major League Baseball. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Yankees fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. The Yankees are in the early stages of offseason planning and we have little idea […]
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NJ.com | Manny Gómez: Yankees fans are a contentious bunch, who love to argue with each other, but if there’s one thing they pretty much all agree on, it’s that they universally dislike Aroldis Chapman, for reasons that are too numerous to discuss here. Well, the feeling is mutual. Speaking on a podcast this week, […]
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The World Series is underway, meaning that by the end of the week we’ll officially be out of MLB games to enjoy until 2026. The Yankees, of course, have been out of the running for a bit now and with a couple of weeks to decompress following the end of their season probably have their […]
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Several years back, Buster Olney, the former Yankees beat writer for the New York Times and a professor emeritus of baseball journalism, wrote a book called The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty. If you haven’t already, you should read it. In his telling, the Yankee dynasty ended in the Arizona desert in 2001, when […]
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Cody Bellinger was once a superstar; a Rookie of the Year-turned-MVP in his third season whose capabilities only seemed to be climbing higher and higher in LA. By the time he came to the Yankees last December in a one-for-one deal with the Cubs for Cody Poteet, he had endured a steep multi-season decline and […]
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The offday is over and the World Series will be back on tonight, this time from the West Coast with the Dodgers and Blue Jays even, and the series now a best-of-five. Hopefully there’s some good baseball in store. Today on the site, we’re beginning our annual Yankees Roster Report Cards series! I’ll have an […]
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MLB Trade Rumors | Mark Polishuk: While it’s not the kind of staff change that a lot of people probably want, the Yankees reportedly did make one personnel move on Sunday. Desi Druschel is reportedly set to return to the Yankees, joining the team as an assistant pitching coach. Druschel spent time in a similar […]
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It’s Sunday, and you know what that means — it’s time for our weekly social media roundup! With the baseball season in the rearview mirror, New York sports fans turn towards football, and with the Giants and Jets being, well, the Giants and Jets, they immediately turn their eyes to the Knicks and Rangers at Madison […]
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Since the Yankees were unfortunately eliminated in the ALDS, we here at Pinstripe Alley have been reviewing the 2025 Yankees’ season. We’ve taken some time to look back on both the highs and lows of this past year, but what we’re doing today isn’t quite that. No, today we’re going to look back on the […]
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More than 55,000 fans packed Shea Stadium on October 26, 2000, for the fifth game of the World Series. The “hometown” Mets trailed the reigning, defending, undisputed two-time World Series champion Yankees three games to one. To close out the Fall Classic, the Yanks turned to Andy Pettitte. He faced off against once and future […]
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After the Blue Jays rattled off on a run parade against the Dodgers bullpen in Game 1, it was up to Yoshinobu Yamamoto to stay in the game as long as possible to limit exposure of the soft underbelly of his team. He answered the bell, becoming the first LA pitcher since Orel Hershiser in […]
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We’ve played two in Toronto, and we’ve got a tied series. The Dodgers bounced back impressively from a Game 1 beatdown, Yoshinobu Yamamoto turning in another outstanding start, going the distance while getting enough support from his offense. Los Angeles is once again in a strong position, hosting the next three games with a chance […]
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