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Yankees news: Judge back to feeling confident in elbow

New York Post | Greg Joyce: Aaron Judge’s barking elbow was a major concern for the Yankees last summer, with the ailment costing the captain some time and production in July and August. But after the season, team doctors told Judge he wouldn’t require surgery, and Judge says his elbow is now fully good to […]

MLB Players Association executive director Tony Clark to resign

An already strained labor-management dynamic in Major League Baseball was thrown into further chaos Tuesday morning. MLB Players Association executive director Tony Clark is expected to resign from his post according to The Athletic and ESPN. Clark, who has served as executive director since 2013, will depart before the final season of the current collective […]

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50 Most Notable Yankees Free Agent Signings in 50 Years: Aaron Judge

The Yankees almost always have one of the highest payrolls in the sport. Even as the Mets and Dodgers have shown them that there’s another level to spending, the Yankees routinely are big players in free agency, and some of the greatest free agent signings in history have signed on to play in the Bronx. […]

Yankees 2026 Season Preview: J.C. Escarra

Every season has its feel-good story, and for the 2025 Yankees, that feel-good story was J.C. Escarra. With 2022 Platinum Glove winner Jose Trevino traded to the Cincinnati Reds over the winter, the Yankees entered spring training with an opening behind the plate. Despite having a disadvantage in the position battle because he, like starter […]

Yankees Birthday of the Day: Wally Pipp

If you say the name Wally Pipp to a baseball fan, there’s probably one thing that comes to their mind. One day in 1925, Pipp got the day off from his normal role as the Yankees’ starting first baseman. In his place, a youngster named Lou Gehrig got the start instead. Pipp then never got […]

State of the Yankees’ System: Relief Pitching

The Yankees had serious bullpen issues in 2025, which mostly stemmed from the fact that Devin Williams had far and away the worst year of his career after he was acquired from the Brewers for Caleb Durbin and Nestor Cortes in the offseason. Williams figured it out towards the end of the year and was […]

Should Jasson Domínguez make the Yankees’ Opening Day roster?

Spring training positional battles are storied Florida/Arizona traditions, but as of now, the Yankees don’t have many significant battles to play out in camp. Sure, there could be injuries that shake up the depth chart, and there will always be jockeying for spots at the back of the rotation and in the bullpen. But as […]

Should Jasson Domínguez make the Yankees’ Opening Day roster?

Spring training positional battles are storied Florida/Arizona traditions, but as of now, the Yankees don’t have many significant battles to play out in camp. Sure, there could be injuries that shake up the depth chart, and there will always be jockeying for spots at the back of the rotation and in the bullpen. But as […]

Yankees news: A busy spring training Monday

MLB | Bryan Hoch: Flame-throwing prospect Carlos Lagrange knew he’d be throwing a three-inning live batting practice session. He did not know he would be facing the greatest hitter on the planet, Aaron James Judge. Each got the better of the other, as they faced off three times. Judge demolished a 99-mph heater from Lagrange […]

Ask Pinstripe Alley: Yankees mailbag questions request

Spring training is here, and exhibition games will be on the schedule as early as the end of this week. With that in mind, it’s time to kick the mailbag back into high gear, and get back to answering your questions on a weekly basis. The Yankees are gearing up in camp, and have gotten […]

50 Most Notable Yankees Free Agent Signings in 50 Years: DJ LeMahieu

Let’s get something out of the way right off the bat. The Yanks’ initial free agent contract for DJ LeMahieu will go down as one of the smartest moves they have ever made. We’ve sung its praises before! Pilfering the second baseman from the Rockies on a two-year, $24 million contract in October 2018, New […]

Yankees 2026 Season Preview: Camilo Doval

As the Yankees approached last season’s Trade Deadline, they’d squandered an early division lead and sat in need of reinforcements. The most logical area of the roster to augment was the bullpen. Devin Williams, acquired in a preseason blockbuster to serve as the team’s closer, had been a massive disappointment, closing out July with an […]

Yankees Birthday of the Day: Barry Foote

One of the most interesting pipelines in major sports, especially in baseball, is the transition from player to manager. Although the managerial ranks are always changing, there are plenty who used to play for their MLB teams, with the Yankees consistently having them on the top step of the dugout (Aaron Boone and Joe Girardi […]

Which Yankees player will take a leap in 2026?

Good morning, all! The oh-so-gradual preparations for the 2026 MLB season keep coming along, and today marks another small hurdle. Pitchers and catchers have already been in camp since at least Wednesday, and all position players had to report by yesterday. Well, today is the first full-squad workout. … … It’s OK. You don’t have […]

Yankees news: Jasson Domínguez could be odd man out in outfield

MLB.com | Bryan Hoch: The Yankees are in an interesting spot with outfielder Jasson Domínguez in 2026. Domínguez is still young enough and his development would be best served by playing every day. However, it’s difficult—at least as of right now (we’re still over a month away from Opening Day and it’s best to expected […]

Yankees Social Media Spotlight: Baseball’s Back

It’s Sunday once more, and you know what that means — it’s time for our weekly social media roundup! It’s the best time of the year: the start of spring training! Pitchers and catchers reported to camp this week, many of the position players have arrived, and this coming Friday, the Bombers will take the field […]

Yankees Birthday of the Day: Russell Martin

Russell “Le Muscle” Martin is one of the greatest Canadian major leaguers of all-time. Breaking into The Show with the Dodgers in 2006, Martin came to the Yankees in December 2010, succeeding franchise icon Jorge Posada behind the plate. Martin played two solid seasons in the Bronx behind the plate before signing with Pittsburgh, where […]

Who has the best rotation in the Yankees’ division?

Preseason projections are the name of the game in the early going of spring, as camp gets going but the games have yet to start. Barring some last-second news dropping, the AL East has their rosters lined up for another year of chasing one of the hardest crowns to claim in baseball. We’ve talked about […]

Yankees news: Ben Rice suffers minor neck injury

Greg Joyce | X: After learning on Friday that Cam Schlittler was dealing with a back/lat issue that is not believed to be serious, the team reported that first baseman Ben Rice is also nursing a minor injury. The young first baseman, per Joyce, “slept on his neck wrong the other night” and that’s why […]

Yankees news: Ben Rice suffers minor neck injury

Greg Joyce | X: After learning on Friday that Cam Schlittler was dealing with a back/lat issue that is not believed to be serious, the team reported that first baseman Ben Rice is also nursing a minor injury. The young first baseman, per Joyce, ‘slept on his neck wrong the other night’ and that’s why […]

Yankees History: How to throw a gem and lose

If I were to give you no information about a game other than that your team had a pitcher go 8.2 innings and allow one hit and no earned runs, you’d probably be feeling pretty good about what happened. First, that’s all but one out of a complete game. Second, one hit is not very […]

Yankees Birthday of the Day: Dámaso Marte

For nearly 20 years, the Yankees had an ace in the hole who gave them an advantage over every other team in the league, boasting the nearest the game has ever known to a true shutdown closer. Of paramount importance, therefore, was establishing a bridge between the team’s starters and Mariano Rivera, who lay in […]

Yankees Birthday of the Day: Dámaso Marte

For nearly 20 years, the Yankees had an ace in the hole who gave them an advantage over every other team in the league, boasting the nearest the game has ever known to a true shutdown closer. Of paramount importance, therefore, was establishing a bridge between the team’s starters and Mariano Rivera, who lay in […]

Yankees fans overwhelmingly disapprove of Brian Cashman’s offseason decisions

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. Following a snow-filled winter, we’re starting to feel that baseball buzz back in the air. […]

Heading off a Yankees Max Fried postseason narrative

The conclusion to the 2025 MLB season wasn’t a particularly satisfactory one for Yankee fans: falling well short of the previous campaign in which they made it all the way to the Fall Classic, this time losing to a division rival in the ALDS — the same rival that stole the AL East crown from […]