The offseason is in full swing and the Winter Meetings are about to begin, so it’s time to take another look at the Yankees farm system and consider a new ranking of Baby Bombers on the rise within the organization. There was a lot of movement in 2025, as a few arms made huge strides […]
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The bullpen for the New York Yankees certainly had its ups and downs through the 2025 regular season. When it came to the starting rotation, they performed about as well as manager Aaron Boone or any of the Yankees faithful could have asked for. They finished eighth in MLB in fWAR and fourth in ERA. […]
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It looked like yesterday would be another quiet one as we lead into the Winter Meetings, but last night, the Mets poached a Yankee again, Devin Williams becoming the latest player to switch from the Bronx to Queens. Despite struggling mightily for most of the 2025 season, Williams secured a solid three-year, $51-million to join […]
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The Mets agreed to a three-year deal with Devin Williams Monday, with his salary expected to exceed $50 million. The Athletic’s Will Sammon was the first to report the contract, with ESPN’s Jeff Passan adding the financial terms. After emerging as one of the sport’s elite relievers during six years in Milwaukee, the right-hander spent […]
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Seeing any prospect come up and do well is extremely fun, but there’s something different when it’s a young starting pitcher. A pitcher getting called up and impressing has you dreaming that your team has found someone who could take the ball in key games and playoff series openers and not only give your team […]
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The New York Yankees undoubtedly have positions in desperate need of an upgrade over the course of the long offseason. That being said, they also have other spots where they may not necessarily need an upgrade, but it certainly wouldn’t hurt to get one. The man behind the plate calling the shots is one of […]
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In a vacuum, ignoring injury, the Yankees’ starting rotation for 2026 looks outstanding. Gerrit Cole, Max Fried, Carlos Rodón, Cam Schlittler, Luis Gil, and Will Warren all return, and the Yanks just recently re-signed Ryan Yarbrough. That’s six legitimate starting pitchers and a guy who was pretty successful as a spot starter/swingman for New York […]
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Usually, we’ll do some kind of preamble here with brief thoughts on baseball activity from the previous day. But boy, the MLB offseason was as quiet as a day in late January. Maybe everyone was just anxious for December and today will offer more. Today on the site, Kevin will consider Michael King as a […]
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MLB Trade Rumors | Charlie Wright: The Yankees have a decision to make with their outfield prospects, once they’re done making a decision about their major-league outfield. Jasson Domínguez and Spencer Jones are already going to be hard-pressed to both find time in the big leagues with only one spot open in the outfield at […]
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It’s Sunday, and you know what that means — it’s time for our weekly social media roundup! It was a busy week in New York City, as the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade took over the city on Thursday, the New York Knicks’ win over the Bucks dominated headlines on Friday, and Jaxson Dart cleared concussion […]
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Generally, if you allow double-digit hits in a game as a pitcher, you and your team probably aren’t going to win that game. If you then add in eight walks to the equation, your odds are going to take an even greater dip. These days, it’s probably not even possible for a pitcher to put […]
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We’ve reached the end of November and of Thanksgiving week, which means that the MLB offseason should be about to give us some real action. The winter meetings will begin at the end of next weekend, and with them there will be a steady drumbeat of rumors and actual moves. To be fair, we’ve already […]
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MLB Trade Rumors | Mark Polishuk: The Yankees have yet to make their first big splash of free agency, but it appears that Kyle Tucker and Cody Bellinger have emerged as their most prominent targets. If a recent report from Jon Heyman is to believed, there is a clear hierarchy of prioritization between the two […]
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The Yankees have a delicate task this offseason to upgrade the offense if they are indeed serious about improving on 2025’s disappointing finish. With multiple positions to address, potentially limited funds to do so and a lack of true difference makers outside of Kyle Tucker, the front office might have to get creative in their […]
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Carlos Rodón didn’t make a great first impression in pinstripes. Signed to a six-year free agent deal before the 2023 season, the left-hander was coming off a 237-strikeout campaign and expected to slot behind Gerrit Cole as a formidable duo atop the Yankees’ rotation. Instead, he missed the season’s first three months with multiple injuries […]
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The offseason carries on as we move past Thanksgiving, but there were no Black Friday deals to speak of for the Yankees. Perhaps they’ll still shop online on Cyber Monday for a steal, but don’t hold your breath as New York hasn’t seen much momentum on any of their targets this winter so far. Thankfully, […]
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Sports Illustrated | Noah Strackbein: Last week, the Yankees non-tendered a gaggle of bullpen arms, looking to make room on their 40-man roster to protect a couple of prospects from the Rule 5 Draft. Well, this week, they brought one of those bullpen arms back, signing Michael Arias to a minor league deal. The 24-year-old […]
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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. CA_Yankee_Fan asks: Who is the best free agent position player fit for the Yankees besides Bellinger or Tucker? The answer depends […]
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I’m not saying that Ben Rice is Aaron Judge reborn, I’m just saying that a year ago Ben Rice looked overwhelmed by MLB pitching, striking out far above his minor league production, and in his first full year with the big league club blossomed into one of the more promising hitters in the game. Rice […]
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We didn’t get any big news on Thanksgiving after the Blue Jays dropped a bombshell on Thanksgiving Eve, but Toronto’s signing of Dylan Cease to a $210-million contract on Wednesday was significant enough to reverberate for a couple of days. The Blue Jays look like they’re going to remain a major threat going forward after […]
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Baseball America: With his raw power Spencer Jones has potential to be a massive boom on the “boom or bust” scale. However so far, that has also come with quite a number of strikeouts, he also has potential to be a bust on that same scale. Here, Baseball America ranks him as one of the […]
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Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! Hope you have some good eating and relaxing parade/football-watching ahead of you. We are evidently doomed to watch the Cincinnati Bengals tonight but so it goes. We don’t have anything scheduled today on the site aside from Kevin’s overnight news post that went live earlier, so feel free to […]
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New York Post | Matt Ehalt: Yankee Universe got a big of a scare Wednesday. For a brief moment, there was a viral claim that Yankee legend Paul O’Neill is fighting cancer. The YES Network, after speaking to Paulie, quickly corrected the record. The Network’s VP of Communications, Eric Handler, bluntly informed media outlets that […]
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Awards season is now behind us, and we are fully entrenched in the offseason. But, between retrospectives on the 2025 Yankees, and awards voting still relatively fresh on the mind, I was brought down a rabbit hole of past MVP voting. There are plenty of Yankees who have gotten surprising first-place votes on MVP ballots, […]
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The Yankees opened the 2025 season with what one might call a concept of a plan at third base. Their Opening Day third baseman was Oswaldo Cabrera; once Cabrera went down for the year with a grisly leg injury, the scrambling began. Jazz Chisholm Jr. was pulled back off his native second base to man […]
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