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New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge is off to a red-hot start to begin the 2025 campaign, smacking six homers in just seven games so far. He went deep again in Friday’s 9-4 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. That game was also a milestone in Judge’s career. It was his 1,000th appearance since coming up […]

The New York Yankees took it to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday winning the contest 9-4. It was the team’s fifth win on the season after Aaron Judge hit yet another home run. Judge had five home runs on the season entering Friday’s contest. But in the top of the seventh, the 32-year-old outfielder crushed […]

Aaron Judge is arguably the best player in today’s game. Babe Ruth is arguably the greatest MLB player ever. Although the superstars played around 100 years apart from one another, their New York Yankees careers look quite similar through their first 1,000 games according to Bob Nightengale of USA Today. “Babe Ruth’s 1st 1,000 games […]

The New York Yankees are primed for another potential run to the World Series, but injury woes to the pitching rotation and bullpen have dawned a dark cloud early on in the season. On Friday, the franchise received good news and bad news for the bullpen. Tyler Matzek, who is dealing with an oblique issue, […]

New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge is off to a red-hot start this season. He already has five home runs to his name, tying him for the top spot in the MLB. Legendary first baseman Albert Pujols broke down Judge’s swing on MLB Network on Friday. “He has made some adjustment on his swing,” Pujols […]

The Yankees visit the Pirates in Pittsburgh! The Yankees have opened the season playing well, while the Pirates have struggled to find much consistency in comparison. This is an intriguing matchup between the two teams in Pittsburgh. It’s time to continue our MLB odds series with a Yankees-Pirates prediction and pick. The Yankees and Pirates […]

The New York Yankees aim to improve their record on Friday when they take on the Pittsburgh Pirates. Unfortunately, the team will be without Cody Bellinger in this contest after manager Aaron Boone scratched him from the lineup. What was originally thought to be a rest day, reports indicate that the 29-year-old outfielder is not […]

The New York Yankees are receiving a boost on Friday, as star reliever Devin Williams is returning from the paternity list. With Williams returning, however, the Yankees designated reliever Adam Ottavino for assignment, the team announced. Ottavino, 39, landed a minor league contract with the Boston Red Sox before spring training. He was later released […]

The New York Yankees beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 9-7 on Thursday night. Home runs from Aaron Judge and Jazz Chisholm Jr highlighted the game, but a heartfelt story captured fans’ hearts. Yankees backup catcher JC Escarra made his first career start and got his first career hit. He spoke with Yes Network’s Meredith Marakovits about […]

Coming off an MVP-winning 2024 campaign, it was apparent that New York Yankees captain Aaron Judge would likely need to sustain that level of production if his team was going to make a return to the postseason. Well, so far, so good for the Yankee right fielder. His manager, Aaron Boone, gushed over Judge’s performance […]

The New York Yankees returned to their winning ways on Thursday, defeating the Arizona Diamondbacks 9-7. After a season-opening sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers in the Bronx, New York dropped the first two games against Arizona before salvaging Thursday’s win. In order to get that win, the Bronx Bombers turned back the clock a little […]

The New York Yankees’ quest to return to the World Series is off to an up and down start in 2025. After sweeping the Milwaukee Brewers in the season opening series last week, they’ve dropped the first two games of their three-game set against the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks. However, Thursday night has shown exactly what […]

Aaron Judge is the standard bearer and the best player on the New York Yankees. If it were not for the presence of Shohei Ohtani dominating for the Los Angeles Dodgers, it is quite likely Judge would be recognized as the best player in Major League Baseball. ALL RISE FOR THE JUDGE 🧑‍⚖️ Aaron goes […]

The New York Yankees (3-2) ran into some trouble the last two days versus the Arizona Diamondbacks and are hoping to avoid a series sweep in The Bronx on Thursday night. A weekend set against the Pittsburgh Pirates could allow the 2024 American League champions to regain momentum in the early stages of the new […]

The Yankees visit the Pirates in Pittsburgh! The Yankees have opened the season playing well, while the Pirates have struggled to find much consistency in comparison. This is an intriguing matchup between the two teams in Pittsburgh. It’s time to continue our MLB odds series with a Yankees-Pirates prediction and pick. Yankees-Pirates Projected Starters Max […]

Since spring training, New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone had confidence in young catcher turned first baseman Ben Rice’s ability to hit the ball. That confidence was shown when he chose Rice to bat leadoff in Thursday night’s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. When asked to explain his decision, Boone offered a simple one-word answer […]

The New York Yankees are 3-2 to start the season. Aaron Judge had a dominant series against the Milwaukee Brewers, hitting four homers and driving in 11 runs for the Yankees. On their recent Top 100 list, ESPN ranked the slugger fourth despite his AL MVP last season. When asking other players in the league […]

The New York Yankees have enjoyed a strong start to the 2025 campaign, winning three of their first five games, and they have done so in destructive fashion at times. Off the field, though, the team has been working to support one of their former players, Brett Gardner, after his son, Miller Gardner tragically died […]

It’s time to continue our MLB odds series with a Diamondbacks-Yankees prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Diamondbacks-Yankees. The New York Yankees face some substantial pitching questions this season. The injuries to Gerrit Cole and Luis Gil have left the Bronx Bombers shorthanded and in need of steady performances from their back-end rotation […]

Zac Gallen was electric on Wednesday night in the Bronx, and even Yankees manager Aaron Boone had no choice but to tip his cap to the Diamondbacks’ ace following a 4-3 Arizona victory. “He was really dealing,” Boone said postgame when asked about what made Gallen so effective. "He was really dealing." Aaron Boone talks […]

The New York Yankees offense was finally silenced on Wednesday night. Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Zac Gallen tied a career-high with 13 strikeouts across 6.2 shutout innings, as New York lost 4-3. After the game, though, the bigger concern was that of Yankees starter Carlos Rodon. During the top of the 5th inning, Rodon took […]

New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone explained his controversial decision to bench starting left fielder Jasson Dominguez. The Yankees have gotten off to a blistering start on offense in their first four games. And the 22-year-old outfielder has contributed to that start. However, Boone has decided to sub Dominguez out for Trent Grisham in three […]

The Boston Red Sox made the move to break camp with Kristian Campbell at the start of the 2025 MLB season, and amid a promising start that included a home run against the Texas Rangers in his first series, he has become the favorite for the American League Rookie of the Year Award at +300, […]

It’s time to continue our MLB odds series with a Diamondbacks-Yankees prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Diamondbacks-Yankees. The New York Yankees have a lot going for them, but one obvious concern is the back end of their bullpen. Given the injuries to starting pitchers Gerrit Cole and Luis Gil, the bullpen is […]

The New York Yankees are dealing with an insane amount of pitching injuries. Gerrit Cole is out for the season, recovering from Tommy John surgery, and Luis Gil is out with a lat strain. Late in spring training, they lost Clarke Schmidt to rotator cuff tendinitis. Yankees manager Aaron Boone revealed when Schmidt is expected […]

The New York Yankees and Arizona Diamondbacks are opening a three-game series in The Bronx on Tuesday. Game 1 featured Arizona ace Corbin Burnes against New York rookie Will Warren on the mound in a tight game early. After Anthony Volpe hit his third homer of the season, the Bombers tied the game at 2. […]

The New York Yankees can’t stop crushing baseballs in their hot start to the 2025 MLB season. On Tuesday night against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Bronx Bombers lived up to their nickname again, as outfielder Jasson Dominguez and shortstop Anthony Volpe each hit a home run in the third and fourth innings to help New […]

The New York Yankees swept the Milwaukee Brewers in their season-opening series. But the attention was placed on the torpedo bats that Paul Goldschmidt, Anthony Volpe, Jazz Chisholm Jr, and Austin Wells are using. The Yankees were without Giancarlo Stanton as he nurses elbow injuries, and rumors surfaced that those injuries were caused by the […]

The New York Yankees, and specifically Jazz Chisholm Jr. garnered a lot of attention over the weekend for their use of ‘torpedo bats’ and the offensive explosion against the Milwaukee Brewers, which caused him to take to X, formerly known as Twitter, and explain the intended design of the bats. This also drew a response […]

The New York Yankees are bringing back relief pitcher Adam Ottavino to bolster their bullpen as the team enters a stretch of 22 games in 23 days. The team announced on Tuesday that it has signed the veteran righty to a Major League deal and added him to the active roster ahead of its game […]

The New York Yankees are having one of the most electric starts to an MLB season we’ve ever seen as they’ve hit 15 home runs through just their first three games of the new campaign. The expectations have already been set to “World Series or bust” as they’ll need to lean on one of baseball’s […]

The New York Yankees have re-signed first baseman Dominic Smith to a minor league deal, the team announced on Monday. Smith was with the Yankees during spring training, where he hit .297 with three home runs over 13 games. He opted out of his contract when he failed to make the Opening Day roster. Smith […]

It is the start of an interleague series as the Arizona Diamondbacks face the New York Yankees. It’s time to continue our MLB odds series with a Diamondbacks-Yankees prediction and pick. The Diamondbacks split their opening series of the season with the Chicago Cubs. They lost the first game of the series before winning games […]

The New York Yankees’ home run barrage over the first three games of the 2025 MLB season has elicited both amazement and confusion. Nine of the whopping 15 home runs the Yankees hit in their three-game sweep over the Milwaukee Brewers came with players using the so-called torpedo bat, designed by an MIT-educated Yankees staffer […]

Alex Rodriguez isn’t sugarcoating it — the Los Angeles Dodgers are the team to beat in baseball right now. The Dodgers are off to a sensational start to the 2025 season, going 5-0 with the second-best run differential in the early part of the year at plus-14 runs. That’s actually the second-best mark to Rodriguez’s […]

The New York Yankees have taken Major League Baseball by storm at the plate so far in 2025, and the bats they are using have been given the credit. The Yankees debuted newly designed bats known as “torpedo bats” that increase the batter’s ability to get solid wood on the ball. The bats, as well […]

Hello MLB and New York Yankees fans! Welcome to the latest edition of Mistretta’s Musings. Yankees fans, before making me public enemy No. 1 for even suggesting that someone can challenge Aaron Judge for the 2025 American League MVP Award, the fact that a Yankees player is being selected for this honor is a positive […]

On Sunday, Jazz Chisholm Jr. raised his bat and soaked in the moment as he sent his second home run of the day into the seats at Yankee Stadium, punctuating a historic weekend for the Bronx Bombers. But this wasn’t just any bat—it was one of the Yankees’ new “Torpedo” models, a now widely talked-about […]

The New York Yankees put on a home run derby this weekend against the Milwaukee Brewers, and their use of ‘torpedo bats’ garnered a ton of attention, causing some controversy, but Brewers manager Pat Murphy firmly shut that down. “My old a** will tell you this for sure: It ain’t the wand, it’s the magician,” […]