NEW YORK -- Ben Rice’s first season and a half in the Majors doubled as a crash course in the demands of a first baseman, complete with on-the-job training in areas like footwork, positioning and preparation. As he looks ahead to 2026, Rice expects to continue that education at his

NEW YORK – The Yankees moved to bolster a rotation that projects to be compromised in the early months of the upcoming season, as the club announced Tuesday it has acquired left-hander Ryan Weathers from the Marlins for a four-player prospect package. Miami is receiving outfielder Brendan Jones, outfielder Dillon

With the Yankees reportedly at an impasse in negotiations with Cody Bellinger, they’ve begun giving more serious consideration to alternative paths. Bo Bichette is believed to be among them. A move bringing Bichette to the Bronx would rank among the more surprising developments of the offseason, one that could reshape

NEW YORK -- The wounds were still fresh at the conclusion of the American League Division Series when Cody Bellinger unbuttoned his pinstriped Yankees jersey and said he’d “absolutely” be interested in putting it back on. The feeling was mutual. For months, general manager Brian Cashman and others in the

There is no day on the international baseball calendar quite like Jan. 15 -- it’s the Super Bowl, a Taylor Swift concert and New Year’s celebration all rolled into one. Thursday’s opening of the signing period means amateur international prospects can officially put pen to paper and call themselves professional

MLB's 2026 international signing period opens on Thursday, and its importance can't be understated. While the vast majority of players are teenagers years away from reaching the big leagues, history tells us that the impact some of them make once they get there will be enormous. In 2025, four players

This page will be updated throughout the offseason with all the latest Yankees injury news and transactions.

NEW YORK -- The Yankees added an experienced bullpen arm on Friday, claiming right-hander Kaleb Ort off waivers from the Astros. Ort, 33, made 49 appearances for Houston last season, going 2-2 with one save and a 4.89 ERA. He registered career highs in games, innings (46) and strikeouts (49).

MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2026 Top 100 Prospects list at 8 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 23, with a one-hour show on MLB Network and MLB.com. Leading up to the release of the Top 100, we'll examine baseball's top 10 prospects at each position.

NEW YORK -- The Yankees avoided arbitration by reaching deals with all of their remaining eligible players on Thursday, including a significant raise for second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., who will earn $10.2 million in his final season before potentially reaching free agency. The club also announced one-year agreements with

NEW YORK -- When the Yankees look ahead to the upcoming season, they envision the day Gerrit Cole rejoins the rotation, returning from Tommy John surgery to throw his first big league pitches since Game 5 of the 2024 World Series. That won’t happen in April, and possibly not in

Yankees fans continue to wait with bated breath for the organization to make that big splash and leave its mark on this offseason, but the reality is that it may not be coming. And that isn't necessarily a bad thing. While talk continues to swirl around big-name free agents like

For the first three installments of the MLB Pipeline Executive Poll, we asked front offices around baseball to focus on players. For our fourth and final report, we asked them to turn the spotlight on each other. As we have since we started this series in 2023, we are wrapping

If we had a dime for every time we’ve said or used the word “tools” at MLB Pipeline … we’d sure have a lot of dimes. Tools are, of course, the building blocks for prospects, and a lot of time is spent evaluating all of them to try to determine

NEW YORK – There was a brief period last summer when the Yankees had to contemplate what their lineup might look like without Aaron Judge, their season seemingly hanging in the balance as the slugger underwent tests on his ailing right elbow. They’ll experience that reality this spring, for a

In Part I of the MLB Pipeline Executive Poll, we took a look at the industry’s picks for Rookie of the Year in each league. This next installment will dig deeper into what front offices think about top prospects. The survey, filled out by more than 40 execs across nearly

The new year is all about resolutions -- and, yes, predictions! Nobody knows what the future holds, but on the latest MLB Pipeline Podcast, Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo do their best to try figuring it out. Callis and Mayo whip out their crystal balls to project which prospects will

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NEW YORK -- The Yankees have made their first acquisition of the new year, signing veteran infielder Paul DeJong to a Minor League contract with an invitation to Major League Spring Training, a source told MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand. DeJong, 32, would earn $1 million if he is in the Majors.

NEW YORK -- With 27 World Series championships, any list constrained to the five best seasons in Yankees history is incomplete by definition. It’s an impossible task, one destined to leave behind years deeply imprinted in the hearts of fans. Still, we’ll attempt it here. The most fair approach may

The calendar has flipped over to 2026, and we already have year-end awards on our minds here at MLB Pipeline. In 2025, we picked two of the three American League Rookie of the Year finalists in the Athletics' Jacob Wilson and Roman Anthony of the Red Sox. And we singled

Is Andy Pettitte a Hall of Famer? For some, the answer is an immediate no, regardless of any evidence presented. And there are reasons why he hasn't garnered a lot of support on previous Baseball Hall of Fame ballots. Pettitte was consistently good but never otherworldly great during his 18-year

As we enter a new year and inch closer to the 2026 baseball season, there's much to be determined for many clubs as they head to Spring Training. While there has been plenty of offseason activity, many key free agents remain on the board, possible trade candidates haven't been moved