NEW YORK -- Spencer Jones vividly remembers where he was while Cam Schlittler dominated the Red Sox to end last year’s American League Wild Card Series: somewhere on a 13-hour highway trek between Scranton, Pa., and his home in Nashville, Tenn., watching the action on an iPad. “My girlfriend and

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The 2026 postseason is in the books, and it ended in a way we’d never seen before. The Brewers laid waste to the baseball landscape and romped to the first World Series title in franchise history. Milwaukee closed out the Tampa Bay Rays with a 4-1 win in Game 5

The postseason is momentous. It is a collection of stories and stats and, most of all, snapshots. After the long, slow grind of the regular season, these great teams and elite athletes have to summon something extra within themselves to come through in the clutch while the rest of us

The Yankees have agreed to a three-year contract with pitching coach Matt Blake, according to a report from MLB Network insider Jon Heyman. The club hasn’t confirmed the agreement. Blake, 41, has been the Yankees’ pitching coach since they hired him in November 2019, succeeding Larry Rothschild in the role.

The World Series is over but you can still watch live baseball featuring many of baseball's top up-and-coming players. The 34th annual Arizona Fall League season is in full swing, and you can watch top prospects from all 30 MLB organizations throughout November as AFL matchups are once again streaming

This page will be updated throughout the offseason to reflect the team’s latest transactions and any injury updates.

Thirty years ago today – Oct. 24, 1996 – Andy Pettitte pitched one of the greatest games in Yankees history, outdueling John Smoltz and beating the Braves, 1-0, in Game 5 of the 1996 World Series at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. It gave New York a 3-2 series lead and put

No one keeps official statistics in the batting cage, but Giancarlo Stanton likely led the Yankees in at-bats against the Trajekt machine this past season, trying to keep his skills sharp despite a series of calf injuries that kept him off the basepaths. By October, Stanton was back in his

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- J.T. Etheridge left the Louisiana-Lafayette dugout on June 2, 2024, and figured that might be the end of his baseball journey. Looks from Major League organizations had been limited, and although he punched out 52 batters in 32 2/3 frames during his senior year, Etheridge ran a

The leaves may be continuing to change and temperatures starting to drop, but the hitters are only getting hotter in the Arizona Fall League. Twenty-nine homers were hit by 22 players during the third week of play in the desert. Dozens of bats recorded multihit showings, with three of them

NEW YORK -- When the Yankees introduced Aaron Boone in December 2017, Brian Cashman said the franchise would be “betting on the ceiling” of a rookie manager to leap from the broadcast booth to the dugout, expecting their partnership to translate into a World Series championship. It hasn’t happened yet,

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Everyone knows one another in Hedgesville, West Virginia, which boasted a population of just 300 during the most recent census at the turn of the decade. There’s a Subway, a Burger King and three stop lights. There’s even a King’s New York Pizza, which in hindsight, could

The winners of the 2026 Fielding Bible Awards, honoring the best defender in Major League Baseball at every position, were announced on Thursday. The Fielding Bible Awards pick one player at each of the nine positions as the top fielder in MLB at that position, as well as one "multi-position"

Hideki Matsui, the two-time MLB All-Star and 2009 World Series MVP with the Yankees, has been introduced as the new manager of Nippon Professional Baseball’s Yomiuri Giants. Matsui, 52, played all 10 of his NPB seasons with the Giants, Japan’s most iconic franchise. The Tokyo-based club has won a league-high

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Aaron Boone will return as Yankees manager in 2027. Boone is entering the final year of his contract with the Yankees in ‘27, which will mark his 10th season at the helm for New York. In 2026, the Yankees finished with 93 wins and secured the top Wild Card spot.

Although it may not garner as much publicity as the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry or contain the “everything on the line” type of atmosphere that football fans feel when Army takes on Navy, the Cortaca Jug is one of the oldest and most storied games in American sports. The annual gridiron

You can only make one first impression. Organizations handle recent Draft picks in all sorts of ways. Sometimes, they’ll hold them back for lighter work at the Spring Training complex, work that continues into fall instructs or bridge-league play. Sometimes, they’ll push them out to an affiliate to get their

The 2026 Rawlings Gold Glove Award finalists were announced on Wednesday, with the winners set to be unveiled on ESPN on Sunday, Nov. 1. Each league has three finalists at each position, including the utility spot, which was awarded for the first time in 2022.

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NEW YORK – Aaron Judge spent most of the past two weeks trying to override the Yankees’ caution about his right calf muscle, an ongoing battle that ended with the captain watching all five postseason games from the bench. With the offseason underway far too early for his taste, Judge

By the time Chris Chambliss stepped to the plate, the pressure of the moment was setting in. Standing in the left-handed batter’s box against Royals right-hander Mark Littell in the fifth and final game of the 1976 American League Championship Series, the Yankees’ cleanup hitter prepared to lead off the