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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.

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

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

The 34th annual Arizona Fall League season is underway, and you can watch top prospects from all 30 MLB organizations throughout October and November as AFL matchups are once again streaming for free on both MLB.com (here and on the AFL site) and MLB.TV. All but five games of the

This page will be updated throughout the offseason to reflect the team’s latest transactions and any injury updates. As a reminder, players can remain on the 60-day IL through the World Series, after which teams must account for those players on their 40-man roster.

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

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – On Thursday, October 8, Yankees right-hander Mack Estrada entered his Arizona Fall League game for the Salt River Rafters in the second inning to relieve J.T. Etheridge. He threw one pitch to finish the inning, and his day was done, as Etheridge returned to get more work

NEW YORK – When Jazz Chisholm Jr. wasn’t included in the starting lineup for Game 1 of the American League Wild Card Series against the Red Sox, the Yankees second baseman received a text message from manager Aaron Boone, reading in part, “You might be the most important person in

The most important thing for prospects is development: learning how to be a professional, acquiring new skills, sharpening tools or pitches. There often can be bumps in the road along the path to the big leagues, and it's important to note that performance and production in the moment isn't necessarily

NEW YORK – There was no team meeting held, no rah-rah speech offered in the clubhouse as the first pitch approached on Wednesday night. Their backs against the wall, these Yankees understood the stakes: Play well for the next nine innings, or endure another long winter filled with questions. The