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MLB Playoff Roundup: Jays send a message in Game 1
After a few days of mental regrouping, baseball is back, as the Blue Jays and Dodgers kicked off the 2025 World Series at the Rogers Centre up north of the border. It was a tense and tight start to Game 1 of the Fall Classic, but once they found their footing, the Blue Jays took […]
Today on Pinstripe Alley – 10/26/25
The finale of the 2025 season kicked off last night, with the Blue Jays running away with a surprise Game 1 victory 11-4. Addison Barger’s pinch-hit grand slam was the gut punch that sealed the deal, but the Jays had already gotten to Dodgers starter Blake Snell well before that. Toronto took a huge step […]
Yankees news: Dealing in the desert
MLB | Jesse Borek: Three and a half years ago, the Yankees signed undrafted free agent Hueston Morrill. Morrill, who’d played both ways in college, prefered to be a hitter. But when the Yankees thought he could transition to pitching full-time, he embraced it. After a non-descript 2024, Morrill exploded in 2025. Across the season […]
Yankees fans prefer re-signing Bellinger over a Kyle Tucker pursuit
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 offseason came earlier for the Yankees than they or the fans would’ve liked, but […]
Breaking down the World Series lineups
We have a Fall Classic matchup between the National League’s chalk pick and one of the more surprising American League winners, at least based on preseason projections. The Toronto Blue Jays will welcome the reigning and defending World Series champion Dodgers tonight for the first Fall Classic in Canada since 1993, and the big face-off […]
2000 Yankees Diary, October 24: El Duque’s magic runs out, Mets win World Series Game 3
As the World Series moved across town, the Yankees had the Mets flat on the mat. They’d won a pair of thrillers, outlasting the Mets with a walk-off in Game 1 before holding on for dear life in a memorable Game 2. With a 2-0 lead in hand, they took the train to Queens with […]
The Yankees’ five worst defensive plays of 2025
After the Dodgers exposed the Yankees’ defensive shortcomings last October — and reveled in twisting the knife in the months that followed — GM Brian Cashman faced questions all offseason about how he’d bolster his defensive unit. The results were a mixed bag. Newcomers like Cody Bellinger and Ryan McMahon shored up problem areas from […]
Today on Pinstripe Alley – 10/23/25
We have one more day without baseball, the the Blue Jays and Dodgers set to start the World Series tomorrow night in Toronto. The interregnum between the League Championship Series and the World Series often brings an odd preview of the offseason; after an incredible Game 7 between the Jays, we’ve had to sit on […]
Yankees news: Daring for optimism with Anthony Volpe
The Athletic | Brendan Kuty: ($) Kuty spoke to Brian Schulz, an orthopedic surgeon and the team physician for the Angels, about Anthony Volpe’s partially torn labrum. Schulz offered some idea as to how the team may have not realized how injured their starting shortstop was for much of the season, reasoning that it can […]
Apathy while the country dances
I got a lot of texts like this on Monday night: For all the talk about hockey, Canada comes alive when the Blue Jays are doing well. Bolstered by being the only team that’s broadcast across the country, not unlike the way TBS made the Atlanta Braves a nationwide brand in the 90s, 40 million-odd […]
2000 Yankees Diary, October 22: After Clemens/Piazza Bat-gate, Bombers hang on for dramatic win
After a dramatic walk-off win in Game 1, the Yankees doubled their advantage in Game 2 of the 2000 World Series. However, the road there was a bit of a roller coaster. The first inning featured arguably the most memorable moment of the series for anyone who’s not a Yankee fan. The Bombers mostly dominated […]
The Yankees’ five best defensive plays of 2025
After defensive miscues played a major role in the Yankees’ defeat in the 2024 World Series, the Yankees clearly made it a priority to strengthen their performance with the glove in 2025, as they brought in a trio of Gold Glovers in Cody Bellinger, Max Fried, and Paul Goldschmidt during the winter, shifted Jazz Chisholm […]
Today on Pinstripe Alley – 10/22/25
We’re in the waiting game for the final matchup of the year, with the World Series set to kick off in two more days. Once we have a champion, the offseason begins in earnest and we’ll start to see the beginnings of the Yankees’ plans for improving this team — unlike many of the past […]
Yankees news: Wave goodbye to Weaver
SNY | Phillip Martinez: Luke Weaver was such a valuable reliever for the Yankees for much of his tenure with the team, but an ugly second-half and postseason performance likely spells the end of his time in pinstripes. The struggles began after returning from a hamstring injury in late June and only got worse as […]
Arizona Fall League Week 2 Recap
The second 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 this past week, as compared to Week […]
VOTE: Who is the Yankees’ biggest free agent priority?
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 World Series is set and the Yankees are stuck on the outside looking in […]
2000 Yankees Diary, October 21: Unlikely hero walks off Subway Series Game 1
And just like that, the 2000 baseball season came down to two teams, both from the same city, with their stadiums about 14 miles away from each other. The New York Yankees and the New York Mets were bidding for a World Series title after fighting their way through their respective opponents, the Oakland Athletics […]
The five worst moments of the 2025 Yankees’ season
The 2025 season has come and gone for the Yankees. There were plenty of highlights, as Jeremy showed yesterday, but there were also plenty of lowlights. Today, we will, unfortunately, look at those lowlights in Pinstripe Alley’s annual installment of the worst moments of the 2025 season. (Dis)honorable mentions 5. Gerrit Cole goes under the […]
MLB Playoff Roundup: Jays advance to World Series after ALCS Game 7 win
The last ticket to the World Series was on the line on Monday, with the Mariners and Blue Jays clashing in a Game 7 that promised to cap off a thrilling ALCS. After dropping the first two games, Toronto rallied to even up the series before Seattle moved closer to the Fall Classic than they’ve […]
Today on Pinstripe Alley – 10/21/25
The World Series matchup is now set. The Blue Jays edged out the Yankees for the AL East crown and then sent them packing for 2025 in a four-game ALDS. Now, they’re on their way to the Fall Classic for the first time in 32 years, as they came back from down 3-1 in the […]
Yankees news: Payroll and prospect projections for 2026
The Athletic | Chris Kirschner ($): Kirschner takes a look ahead at the 2026 projected payroll taking into account money coming off of the books and looming arbitration and option decisions. He calculates that $69.5 million is coming off the books including Cody Bellinger, Paul Goldschmidt, Aaron Hicks (!), Devin Williams, Trent Grisham, and others. […]
The five best moments from the 2025 Yankees’ season
The Yankees once again fell short of the ultimate prize in 2025, bowing out to the Blue Jays in the ALDS one day after an incredible Aaron Judge homer that could’ve been one for the books had it not just ultimately been a stay of execution of sorts. But they were still a 94-win ballclub—matching […]
2000 Yankees Diary: Subway Series Preview
The Bronx. Manhattan. Brooklyn. Queens. Staten Island. New York’s five boroughs permeate the story of baseball, from its humble beginnings as a working class bat and ball sport in the mid-19th century, to its explosion in popularity and commercialization in the late 1800s, through its emergence as the nation’s great pastime throughout the 20th century. […]
MLB Playoff Roundup: Jays and M’s head to Game 7
The National League side of the postseason bracket is set, with the Dodgers making easy work of the Brewers in the NLCS, leaving only the ALCS to decide who else heads to the 2025 Fall Classic. The two championship series could not be any more different, as in the American League the Blue Jays and […]
Today on Pinstripe Alley – 10/20/25
The Blue Jays have clawed back, erasing 2-0 and 3-2 deficits to force a winner-take-all Game 7 in Toronto tonight. It’ll likely be a Johnny Wholestaff situation for both sides tonight, though Shane Bieber and George Kirby are technically lined up to start. Is the fact that this series is going the distance setting things […]