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To get out of this slide, the Yankees’ bats need to get more aggressive
When the Yankees improved to 8-2 on the season with their comeback, series-opening win against the A’s last Tuesday, all was well in the world. There were problems with a shaky bullpen and an unproductive bottom of the order, but the team was winning, and that’s all that matters. But the thing is, over the […]
Yankees Birthday of the Day: Kid Elberfeld
The nascent years of the Yankees franchise — then known as the New York Highlanders — were a veritable Wild West. Fortunes fluctuated frenetically as teammates, manager, and even owner clashed daily. The behavior of certain involved parties would make even the most controversial issues nowadays appear tame. Perhaps no player associated with the franchise […]
Yankees Rivalry Roundup: Astros and Blue Jays can’t stop their skids
Sunday was the end of an awful weekend for the Yankees, who left their first series in Tropicana Field since 2024 winless. It might have been their worst series in St. Pete since the memorable sweep just before the 2016 Trade Deadline that finally convinced Hal Steinbrenner to give up on that year and approve […]
New York Yankees vs. Los Angeles Angels: Series Preview
All is not well in Yankee-land. After taking their first three series on the strength of a stifling rotation, they’ve scuttled, dropping two of three to the Athletics before getting swept by the Rays. They’ll get the chance to rebound this week against an Angels squad that finished worst in the AL West last year […]
Yankees prospects: Carr sharp again in Somerset win
Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders: L, 4-3 vs. Durham Bulls LF Jasson Domínguez 2-4SS Max Schuemann 0-4, K, fielding errorCF Spencer Jones 0-3, RBI, KRF Yanquiel Fernández 1-4, 2B — impressive 111 mph on the double1B Seth Brown 0-3, KDH Paul DeJong 0-3C Ali Sánchez 1-3, HR, 2 RBI — 107-mph tank for his third homer this year2B […]
Which slumping Yankees hitter has you the most worried?
The good vibes that were emanating from the Yankees clubhouse have quickly dissipated. A sterling start has turned sour, a five-game losing streak bringing the Yankees to 8-7 after running an 8-2 record in their first ten games. We certainly shouldn’t be panicking, not so early in the season, and not considering literally every single […]
Yankees news: A closer look at Cam Schlittler
MLB.com | Nathan Maciborski: With young starter Cam Schlittler taking the mound on Sunday for the Yankees, MLB.com posted an article from this month’s Yankees Magazine featuring the right-hander, who has emerged as one of the game’s best young starters since making his debut last summer. While Schlittler’s Massachusetts upbringing and larger-than-life personality have been […]
Yankees Social Media Spotlight: At Least Jeter’s Happy
It’s Sunday once more, and you know what that means — it’s time for our weekly social media roundup! The third week of the season has seen the Yankees hit their first real snag of the season, as they dropped four of five games, including three straight, to cap off their first home stand of […]
Yankees hit same familiar pitfalls, Rays complete the sweep
Over the last several seasons, the Yankees have attempted a teambuilding approach that is less reliant on pure power and more resilient against the kinds of teams which have given them fits: speedy teams that put the ball in play and cover ground in the field. A team like, say, the Tampa Bay Rays. And […]
New York Yankees @ Tampa Bay Rays: Cam Schlittler vs. Drew Rasmussen
The first two games the Yankees played at Tropicana Field since the park’s reopening have proceeded quite…troppily, if you will. New York’s anemic offense was at least able to find a pair of go-ahead hits from José Caballero in yesterday’s 10-inning defeat, though the bullpen wasted little time coughing up the meager advantage to the […]
These Yankees are setting up differently at the plate
When T.S. Eliot wrote “April is the cruellest month,” he definitely wasn’t talking about baseball, but he might as well have been. April is the month when small sample size reigns supreme, convincing even the most hard-hearted fans that a long-awaited breakout is happening, only to leave them in shambles once May rolls around. In […]
Yankees Birthday of the Day: Sammy Vick
When the Yankees famously purchased Babe Ruth from the Red Sox in 1919, there was always going to be someone who’s playing time was massively cut, if not erased at all. As it happens, that fate mostly fell on Sammy Vick. Vick’s career prior to Ruth’s acquisition wasn’t especially notable, and it wasn’t anything especially […]
Yankees Rivalry Roundup: Mariners stage five-run rally to beat Astros
Saturday’s game against the Rays was not pretty viewing for Yankees fans. The Yankees held two separate late leads against Tampa Bay, but couldn’t hold onto either. In the 10th inning, the Rays took advantage of the auto-runner and bunted the Yankees to death, eventually scoring twice in the frame to overtake the Yankees. With […]
Skepticism warranted around Yankees’ early offense
The majority of the New York Yankees’ wins early in the 2026 season have come due to their outstanding pitching. Yes, the offense has had its fine moments, including averaging well over seven runs a game in a series win over the Marlins to kick off April, but for the most part, it’s been an […]
Yankees prospects: Carlos Lagrange flashes new pitch, strikes out eight
Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders: L, 2-4 (7) and W, 9-5 (7) vs. Durham Bulls Game 1: LF Jasson Domínguez 0-2, 1 R, 2 BB, 1 K, 1 SB3B Oswaldo Cabrera 0-3, 1 K2B Max Schuemann 0-1, 1 BB, 1 KCF Spencer Jones 1-3, 1 RBI, 1 K, 1 CSRF Yanquiel Fernández 0-3, 1 KDH Seth Brown […]
Today on Pinstripe Alley – 4/12/26
We’re three weeks into the season, and officially in our first stretch of the doldrums. The Yankees’ bats have gone completely unreliable over the course of a four-game losing streak, backed up mainly by Ben Rice and Giancarlo Stanton swinging solid bats and the rest of the lineup noodling around. Their latest attempt to break […]
Yankees news: Boone angry with ABS failures
NJ.com | Randy Miller: With the Yankees among the worst in baseball at ABS challenge successes, there have been a couple very significant liabilities in the season’s first two weeks. While Austin Wells has been quite good behind the plate, José Caballero has been dreadful at the review system while batting. After Cabby lost two […]
Yankees suffer brutal extra-innings loss to Rays at the Trop
The bottom of the Yankees lineup has caught a lot of flack for being automatic outs in the early going this season. Naturally, on a night when the 6-9 hitters drove in four runs and Max Fried threw eight innings of three-run ball … the Yankees still lost. Why, you ask? Take away José Caballero’s […]
New York Yankees @ Tampa Bay Rays: Max Fried vs Nick Martinez
Suddenly, the Yankees have dropped three-straight contests after losing two games at home against the Athletics then going down to defeat last night in St. Pete for the series opener. The good news is New York sends its ace to the mound tonight. The bad news is said ace cannot hit.* The worse news is […]
Former A’s infielder Max Schuemann happy to be with RailRiders
Max Schuemann is the answer to a baseball trivia question: “Who fielded the last out for the Athletics in their final game at the Oakland Coliseum?” It was September 26, 2024 and the batter was Travis Jankowski of the Texas Rangers. “I was playing third base, kind of shifted over playing short,” Schuemann said. “The […]
Yankees fans most surprised by Boston’s shaky start
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. We’re very early in the 2026 MLB season, but there’s still been enough action to […]
The Yankees got the 2025 Luis Gil in his first start of the year
The suddenly slumping New York Yankees lost again on Friday night at Tropicana Field. The offense continues to come up short, and they just can’t buy a hit. We’re putting the bats to the side for a moment though to discuss Luis Gil and his first start of the season at the MLB level after […]
The pros and cons of Yankee Stadium’s rally hype light show
It’s been a part of the Yankee Stadium experience for years. The Bombers have runners on base, the visiting manager makes the slow walk out to the mound, and signals to the bullpen in left field. Immediately, the door in the left-field fence opens up, the new reliever steps onto the field, and immediately the […]
Yankees Rivalry Roundup: Bats break out for Mariners in win over Houston
The Yankees dropped their series opener against the Rays on Friday, officially creating their first losing streak of the season with their third straight loss. It’s been a reversal of fate in the last week or so, as the team’s bats have gone from doing enough to support their stellar pitching staff to barely managing […]
Yankees Birthday of the Day: Mark Teixeira
Editor’s note: We just wrote about Teixeira a couple months ago as part of our “50 Most Notable Yankees Free Agent Signings in 50 Years” series. Seeing no need to reinvent the wheel and with no better Yankees candidates for April 11th (apologies to Pete Kozma and Wally Whitehurst), this is an oh-so-slightly edited rerun. […]
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