This Q&A is excerpted from an interview for the New York Yankees Official Podcast. Subscribe at yankees.com/podcast or the podcast platform of your choice, or watch every episode on the Gotham Sports app or MLB.com. Some of the most necessary philanthropic efforts are born out of tragedy that not even

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Like a coveted Yankees prospect, first-year Somerset Patriots manager James Cooper has risen through the organizational ranks at an impressive clip. From the Florida Complex League, up the coast with a stop in Hudson Valley, the 44-year-old Cooper has been promoted four times in four years. Along the way, Cooper

This story was originally published in July 2026, before George Lombard Jr. was called up to the Yankees.

Paul Goldschmidt said it last summer, almost casually. It was close to Father’s Day, and the veteran first baseman was standing in front of his locker, discussing what it meant to have his children roaming around Yankee Stadium. “I know this isn’t going to last forever,” Goldschmidt said. He was

After the players had retreated to their respective clubhouses following the 2026 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Cody Bellinger was still on the field at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. A few hours after collecting a first-inning single that plated two runners and gave the American League a 2-0 lead,

“Next man up” is a well-known phrase in the world of sports. It’s a mentality that no matter who goes down to injury, the expectation is for the player behind them to step up and shoulder more responsibility for the good of the team. When a trio of starting pitchers

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Calendars exist to count, or rather, to let us count. They help us tick off moments and look forward to others. Day by day by day, the calendar reminds us of what’s ahead and what’s behind, taunting at once while offering hope the next day. Baseball, more than any other

As far as birthdays go, this is a big one. Today marks 250 years of America’s independence, and you can bet your bald eagle that the celebration will be epic. The semiquincentennial will be a national display of pride and tradition, a historic mile marker long on pomp and circumstance,

Even when he wasn’t supposed to be humble, Mike Stanley knew no alternative. As the Yankees’ catcher from 1992 through 1995 and again for a brief stint in 1997, Stanley possessed a humility and steady demeanor that impressed the Yankees faithful as much as his All-Star-caliber play. That mindset was

A baseball clubhouse is a sacred and strange place, with rules and codes and language dictating so much. Different people are allowed to do different things, say different things, go different places. The metaphors are truly everywhere. This isn’t the type of thing that most people get to see, but

This Q&A is excerpted from an interview for the New York Yankees Official Podcast. Subscribe at yankees.com/podcast or the podcast platform of your choice, or watch every episode on the Gotham Sports app or MLB.com. Every family has its own legacy, physical in some ways, intangible in others. There are

As the 1987 season began, Ron Guidry was without a team. After going 9-12 in ’86, the left-hander became embroiled in a contract dispute with the Yankees, and when Opening Day came around, the 36-year-old free agent still hadn’t signed anywhere. When New York’s starting pitching staff struggled out of

This was one of those lazy, mid-March mornings in Spring Training, a no-man’s land in the schedule where Opening Day still felt like a lifetime away. The Yankees were preparing for another leisurely Grapefruit League game, but that didn’t mean the club’s hierarchy wasn’t dealing with a pressing issue --

A video montage of John Sterling’s career had played at Yankee Stadium. Michael Kay and Suzyn Waldman, his familiar Yankees broadcast partners, had laid bouquets of flowers at home plate, and the massive scoreboard showed a still picture of the radio booth, empty, but for a lone microphone. Now, there

It is rare to see the Yankees make a trade with the division rival Red Sox. So, you can imagine Elmer Rodríguez’s surprise on Dec. 11, 2024, when the former Boston farmhand found out he was being dealt to the Yankees in exchange for catcher Carlos Narváez. Shock and mixed

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A few minutes after noon on a cold December day, the now-61-year-old Dwight Gooden, forever a New York sports icon, walked into the bar room of one of his old hideaways, Peter Luger Steak House in Great Neck, New York. Although it has been more than four decades since Gooden

Austin Wells emerged from his second meeting of the afternoon and walked back toward his locker, iPad in hand. This is 2026, so for a baseball player, Apple’s tablet is almost as important as a bat or glove. The iPad has everything: videos, scouting reports, analysis. It also has the

The two infielders stood maybe 25 yards apart, trying to ignore the cold that enveloped them. Whipping a baseball back and forth to loosen up their arms on this frigid April day in New York City, they took a few steps closer to each other with each relay. Just 20

As the Yankees slugged their way to a season-opening sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers in 2025, the name Cam Schlittler wasn’t necessarily top of mind in the Bronx. A seventh-round pick in 2022 out of Northeastern, he had produced a breakout 2024 season in the Minors, earning South Atlantic League

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The Yankees’ season was hanging by a thread. After dropping the first two games of the 2025 American League Division Series in Toronto, they trailed the Blue Jays again in Game 3 at Yankee Stadium. Down by three runs in the bottom of the fourth, the home team mounted its

The first, second, third and 97th thing that you notice at the World Baseball Classic is the noise. It is consuming. It compounds. It assumes an almost liquid state, sloshing around in time, meeting some moments and altogether creating others. It is unique and occasionally painful. It is incredible. Major