The New York Yankees handled the San Francisco Giants with ease as their three-game sweep helped set franchise history. Last year, the Yankees took down the Milwaukee Brewers in a three-game series that highlighted their offense.
An early couple of off-days has certainly helped the New York Yankees' starting rotation and bullpen stay as healthy as possible. A couple of key injuries are holding this squad back from their full potential, but the Yankees pitching staff has been lights out thus far.
The first half of the 1920s were a transformative time for the Yankees, the still relatively new franchise transitioning from an also-ran into a true behemoth.
Max Fried and Cam Schlittler stole the show in the first week of the season. The two dominated for the New York Yankees, and, in the case of Fried, he was hardly working with his best stuff, and still managed to put up 6.1 scoreless innings.
How many of the MLB players to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in the same season before turning 25 years old can you name in five minutes?
The New York Yankees made a powerful statement to start the Major League Baseball season. New York swept the San Francisco Giants in three games. The Yankees defeated San Francisco on Saturday, 3-1.
As Spring Training opens for 2026, all 30 teams have high hopes and big questions. These are the storylines to follow for each team heading into Opening Day.
The numbers say the New York Yankees are off to a historic start. According to Katie Sharp, they are one of seven teams since 1900 to score one or fewer runs in the first three games of the year.
Projection systems are built on stability. They rely on past performance, role assumptions, and expected workload to estimate future value. That framework is effective in aggregate, but it can miss players whose underlying traits suggest a different outcome than their statistical track record implies.
The Athletic | Chris Kirschner: The streak came to an end after the Giants scored in the third inning on Saturday, but the Yankees opened the season with 20 consecutive scoreless innings, including two shutouts in the first two games.
The vast majority of the baseball world is largely expecting the New York Yankees to boast one of the best starting rotations in baseball by late summer when they return to full strength.
If you wrote a script of how the opening weekend would play out for the Yankees, you could not have written a better one for the Yankees. They completed the series sweep over the Giants, giving up just one run in three combined games.
Aaron Judge homered in his second straight game and Ben Rice doubled in two runs as the visiting New York Yankees beat the San Francisco Giants 3-1 on Saturday to complete a three-game series sweep.
The 2026 MLB season is right around the corner, and it is never too early to start thinking about how it might unfold. Seemingly, every year, we have a decent handle on who should contend and who is likely to struggle, which makes looking ahead to the trade deadline inevitable.
There are a lot of unreliable things about this era of Yankees baseball, but there’s always one thing that they seem to do every year. While some teams are sluggish out of the gates, the Yankees always manage to go full speed to start the season.
Former ace David Cone, who won four World Series rings with the New York Yankees, made five All-Star teams, pitched a perfect game, and won a Cy Young Award in his brilliant career, certainly knows a good pitcher when he sees one.
Yankees vs. Giants: The New York Yankees continue their 2026 season-opening series against the San Francisco Giants with Game 3 at Oracle Park. The Yankees have come out firing, securing back-to-back shutouts (7-0, 3-0) to grab a commanding 2-0 series lead.
Gianna Girardi grew up around baseball, but she never planned to rely on her last name. So now, she is basically building her own way in MLB. The 24-year-old niece of Yankees legend Joe Girardi has started her second season as an in-game host for the Colorado Rockies.
While much of the preseason talk centered on the New York Yankees' potent offense, their pitching has performed quite well for itself so far this season.
Cam Schlittler allowed one hit over 5 1/3 innings and Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton each homered, fueling the visiting New York Yankees to a 3-0 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Friday.
The Tony Vitello era for the San Francisco Giants is certainly off to an historic start. It is just not the good kind of history.
Skenes is under team control through 2029, but it sounds like the Yankees don't want to wait that long to possibly acquire his services.
The New York Yankees are always on the lookout for cheap starting pitching depth, like just about every other team in the league. Few of them, however, have as much success as the Bombers when it comes to elevating a pitcher’s floor and ceiling through player development and coaching.
Arguably one of the biggest Yankees fans, Larry David has spent the majority of his life rooting for the New York Yankees. And, just at the beginning of a brand new season, David is back with another hilarious ad campaign.
It wasn't a banner night for Judge. But the reaction to the performance is both silly and misses what should be the more important takeaway from the game.
First blood has been drawn by … the umpires with MLB’s new automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system. The New York Yankees and the San Francisco Giants officially kicked off the 2026 MLB season with a meeting on Wednesday at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif.
Less than two years after winning American League Rookie of the Year honors, the New York Yankees pitcher will be starting the 2026 season in the minor leagues.
The Yankees will option right-hander Luis Gil to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, per Greg Joyce of the New York Post. They have four off days in the first 12 days of the 2026 season, so they’ll be able to skip the fifth starter spot a couple times.
Ben Rice is taking full advantage of his government name. The New York Yankees first baseman announced in a post to Instagram on Monday that he has partnered with Ben’s Original to promote their brand of rice (Ben’s Original Rice).
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