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The 2025 MLB season is fully in the books, the Dodgers repeating as champions and burnishing their case as one of the great dynasties in league history. Though the champagne in the clubhouse has hardly dried, the rest of the league, the Yankees included, has been glancing ahead at the offseason for some time, and […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 1 read
The Athletic | Andy McCullough ($): The Dodgers are your 2025 World Series champions, defeating the Blue Jays, 5-4, in an eleven-inning instant classic Game 7. They become the first team since the 2000 Yankees to repeat as champs, winning their third title in the last six seasons. Yoshinobu Yamamoto takes home MVP honors after […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
The Yankees season ended far sooner than all those involved would have hoped, but that does not mean the season was a total loss. One of the most encouraging developments of the last year was the emergence of Cam Schlittler, Ben Rice, and Will Warren from relatively unheralded prospect status into legitimate contributors at the […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 1 read
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. After being dismissed by the eventual American League champion Blue Jays in the ALDS earlier […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
Good afternoon everyone, it’s time to dive back into the mailbag and answer some of your questions. Remember to send in your questions for our bi-weekly call by e-mail to pinstripealleyblog [at] gmail [dot] com. MSP Giant asks: What do you see as the liklihood that Yankees pony up for a Skubal-level starting pitcher? Assuming Hal would […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
The Yankees’ “Plan B” after losing Juan Soto in December 2024 will be talked about for years to come. After failing to match the near-$800 million commitment from the Mets, the Yankees pivoted to sign the likes of Paul Goldschmidt and Max Fried, trade for Cody Bellinger in an effective salary dump, and package Caleb […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
Fred McGriff turns 62 today. McGriff was born in Tampa, Florida. The Yankees drafted him in the 9th round of the 1981 amateur draft. Don Mattingly blocked his way to the majors for the Yankees. The Jays acquired McGriff, Dave Collins, Mike Morgan, and cash in exchange for Dale Murray and Tom Dodd. That trade […]
From Bluebird Banter | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
The spookiest day of the year is here, and baseball is still ongoing. The Toronto Blue Jays are one win away from taking home their third World Series title and their first since the 1993 season, when they won back-to-back championships after defeating the Philadelphia Phillies in a six-game series. With Game 6 between the […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
MLB.com | Bryan Hoch: Hoch opens up one of the first offseason mailbags of the winter, and in it he dives into questions about the Yankees’ recent results and coaching changes. The lead question and biggest answer he provides focuses on the question of who is better suited to win a World Series first between […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 1 read
Luke Weaver entered this season with high expectations. The journeyman—who had posted a 6.44 ERA while bouncing around between five teams during the 2022 and 2023 campaigns—unexpectedly emerged as a viable back-end reliever with the Yankees in 2024, pitching to a 2.89 ERA in 84 innings and taking over the closer role down the stretch […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 0 reads
There’s a reason why it’s so rare that teams win back-to-back World Series. It’s Not Easy! The New York Yankees were the last team to pull off a repeat (actually their most recent was a three-peat) in 1998-2000. The last National League team to do it was the Big Red Machine in 1975-76. Diehard A’s […]
From Athletics Nation | about 1 month ago | 1 read
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 […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
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 […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 0 reads
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 […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 1 read
61* is a 2001 film originally made for and released on HBO, that’s currently streaming on the HBO Max streaming service. Just for a basic synopsis, the movie focuses on the 1961 New York Yankees, specifically Roger Maris and Micky Mantle’s chase of Babe Ruth’s homerun record. First time screenplay writer Hank Steinberg, along with […]
From AZ Snake Pit | about 1 month ago | 3 reads
We got a good one, folks. Better than last year in terms of drama, but not in terms of Yankees humiliation. Six of one, half a dozen of the other, amirite?
From Over the Monster | about 1 month ago | 0 reads
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 […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
Look, I know Shane Bieber is really good. I know that the Blue Jays, in general, are a really good team. They won the American League East! The same division with the Yankees, the Red Sox, and the ever-pesky Rays! And yet, it sort of feels like the series is over. The Dodgers lead 2-1, […]
From Royals Review | about 1 month ago | 4 reads
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 […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 1 read
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 […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
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 […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 1 read
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 […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 2 reads
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, […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 1 read
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 […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 1 read
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 […]
From Pinstripe Alley | about 1 month ago | 1 read