Category: New York Yankees

The longest-tenured current Yankee is keeping his pinstripes. Brett Gardner came to terms with the Yankees on a one-year contract on Wednesday after the club declined the 2019 option on his previous deal. According to a source, Gardner will earn $9.5 million next season — a $7.5 million base salary, plus a $2 million buyout payable as the Yankees did... more

CC Sabathia had hoped to finish his career in Yankees pinstripes, and the big left-hander will have that opportunity, as Sabathia and the club have signed a one-year, $8 million deal. Like outfielder Brett Gardner, who agreed to a one-year, $7.5 million pact last week, Sabathia had expressed a strong preference for staying with New York. General manager Brian Cashman... more

J.A. Happ will have spent two consecutive Friday evenings toiling on the Fenway Park mound, though the circumstances will have changed markedly in a week’s time. His last assignment was to help the Yankees secure home-field advantage for a one-game playoff; now, he is being asked to put his team up early in a best-of-five American League Division Series. Happ... more

The intersection of a historic rivalry and 19 contentious regular-season contests promised that this American League Division Series would set up some classic affairs. The first installment did not disappoint, though for the Yankees, an early five-run deficit proved too much to overcome against Chris Sale and the patchwork Red Sox bullpen. Despite a solid track record of regular-season success... more

The raucous home-field advantage the Yankees have grown accustomed to enjoying over the last two postseasons disappeared early from the corner of East 161st Street and River Avenue on Monday evening, as Luis Severino was rocked for six runs over three-plus innings in a 16-1 loss to the Red Sox in Game 3 of the American League Division Series. Experiencing... more

On the September evening that the Red Sox clinched the American League East title, Giancarlo Stanton stood in front of his Yankee Stadium locker and complimented his team’s blood rival, then quipped, “They can celebrate now. We’ve got time to celebrate later.” Boasting an intimidating lineup that established a single-season record for homers and a bullpen that ranked among the... more

The Yankees’ predisposition for awe-inspiring power invited suggestions that this club would mash alongside the best ever. They have lived up to that potential, but more recently their energy has been focused upon securing home-field advantage for the American League Wild Card Game, an objective that they achieved on enemy turf on Friday evening. Gary Sanchez, Aaron Hicks, Luke Voit... more

Gleyber Torres and Miguel Andujar shined on an impressive day for the Baby Bombers, Giancarlo Stanton cleared the Green Monster for his 100th RBI and the Yankees reached the century mark in the win column with an 8-5 victory over the Red Sox on Saturday afternoon at Fenway Park. Torres’ fourth-inning homer marked the Yanks’ 265th of the season, surpassing... more

Miguel Andujar slugged a record-tying double to put the finishing touches on an impressive first big league campaign and Luke Voit extended the Yankees’ all-time mark with the club’s 267th home run, but the Red Sox padded the best record in the Majors by handing the Bombers a 10-2 defeat on Sunday afternoon at Fenway Park. New York took the... more

The Yankees will host the Athletics in Wednesday’s American League Wild Card Game, with the winner heading north to Boston for an AL Division Series showdown with the Red Sox. New York and Oakland split the season series, 3-3, with the Yankees winning two of three at Yankee Stadium in mid-May and the A’s doing the same at the Coliseum... more

For the second consecutive year, Luis Severino has been selected to start the American League Wild Card Game. The Yankees are counting on the right-hander to turn in a much stronger effort this time around. Severino was officially tabbed as the starter on Tuesday by manager Aaron Boone, who selected the 24-year-old All-Star over rotation mates J.A. Happ and Masahiro... more

The hours of conversation and planning that the Yankees poured into ensuring they remained alive past the third day of October boiled down to the same blueprint they have followed all year. Ride the starting pitcher just long enough to hand the game off to the vaunted bullpen, and hope that someone like Aaron Judge crushes a ball out of... more

The Yankees are constructed to thrive upon the home run, and on a day when they surprised many by welcoming back one of the league’s most celebrated power hitters, it was Neil Walker who delivered the most important drive of the night. Walker upstaged Aaron Judge’s return to the lineup with a three-run homer in the seventh inning, ensuring that... more

This is a different Yankees team than the fatigued group that rolled their bags out of Fenway Park following a fourth straight loss in early August, as the Red Sox have learned through the first 18 innings of their visit. Moving closer to full strength with some fresh faces mixed in, these division rivals would almost certainly make for a... more

Giancarlo Stanton raised his arms into the air and floated around the basepaths, celebrating a grand slam that the slumping slugger sorely needed. And yet it was not enough for the Yankees, who had no choice but to plug their ears and ignore the celebration being prepared in the visiting clubhouse of their building. Jackie Bradley Jr. hit a game-tying... more

One year after their run ended a victory shy of advancing to the World Series, the Yankees are officially back in the postseason for another crack at the title. Aaron Hicks doubled home Didi Gregorius to lift New York to a 3-2, 11-inning victory over the Orioles on Saturday at Yankee Stadium, punching a ticket for the American League Wild... more

The Yankees knew that their work was incomplete, even when more than 100 empty bottles of bubbly were transported to the recycling bin. Now that Didi Gregorius could miss the remainder of the regular season with a right wrist injury, their mission to hold off the Athletics for home-field advantage in the American League Wild Card Game has grown more... more