Yankees 2022 season in review

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Yankees general manager Brian Cashman spent the majority of pregame batting practice on his phone Wednesday, pacing on the grass behind home plate at The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches. Cashman always has a lot on his plate and plenty of calls to make, but this week is especially busy. The Yankees are in the process of…

TAMPA - Derek Jeter walked into the Yankees' clubhouse, and Oswald Peraza was no longer the Yankees' starting shortstop. He morphed back into a little kid in Venezuela who idolized the Yankees' captain. Peraza was too nervous to go up to shake the hand of Jeter, who was at the Stadium on Sept. 9 of last year so The Bronx fans could shower him with…

TAMPA - Isiah Kiner-Falefa stood alone in center field on Tuesday, bouncing around on the outfield grass at Steinbrenner Field as he shagged flyballs during Yankees batting practice. This was more than a spring training escapade for Kiner-Falefa, who started 131 games at shortstop last season. The infielder has been working in the outfield over the…

Anthony Volpe basically entered spring training as a compelling prospect to watch with a distant chance of actually making the team out of camp. Distant doesn't mean zero, though. And now, those long odds actually are looking like a good bet. Volpe has been turning heads left and right during camp. He is one of the Yankees' top prospects, but only…

TAMPA - The gang got back together on Sunday morning. Anthony Rizzo beamed as he embraced Aaron Judge inside the Yankees clubhouse at George M. Steinbrenner Field. Isiah Kiner-Falefa unsheathed plastic-wrapped bats from a brown box and bantered with Gleyber Torres. Josh Donaldson fist-bumped security guards as he sauntered toward his locker. If it…

Baseball Prospectus: BP released its annual PECOTA projections yesterday, and of most interest to Yankees fans is the fact that the system currently has New York notching the best record in baseball at a rounded 99-63 - well ahead of their AL East rivals and also better than the Mets, Dodgers, and even the defending champion Astros. The league-best…

What would it feel like to be the athlete staring at the biggest opportunity of his life? All he has to do is do what he has prepared for all of his life-be extraordinary. That is basically Oswald Peraza for the next several weeks into Opening Day. Shortstop is within his reach. He just has to go out there and perform, own the position and show the…

The fact that Anthony Volpe topped every Yankees prospect list for the second winter in a row and ranks among the game's top 10 prospects is more than enough to make him a major point of interest when spring training opens next week; after all, spring training is our main opportunity to get to watch the organization's prospects on a daily basis.…

With about two weeks until spring training begins, the Yankees' roster seems all but set. They accomplished their biggest goals before the new year, re-signing Aaron Judge and bringing aboard lefty ace Carlos Rodón. Keeping Anthony Rizzo fortified first base. Signing Tommy Kahnle strengthened the back end of the bullpen. Even the front office got a…

The start of spring training is less than a month away, and it's going to a newsworthy one for the Yankees. There's going to be a battle for the starting shortstop job, and it'll be an intriguing one with 2022 regular Isiah Kiner-Falefa being challenged by two of the organization's best prospects, Oswald Peraza, perhaps the favorite to win the job,…

If you asked a diehard Yankee fan to describe their offseason, you might get a ho-hum response. The standards in the Bronx are apparently a little different than they are across the rest of the MLB landscape. "Only" re-signing your best player to a nine-year, $360M extension and lengthening the already deep starting rotation by inking lefty Carlos…

It was a bittersweet season for the New York Yankees last year. While the team dominated the American League East with a record of 99-63, they again fell to their playoff rivals, the Houston Astros. However, fans of the club were treated to a historic season by their superstar outfielder Aaron Judge. The slugger enjoyed the best season of his…

Jul 16, 2022; Los Angeles, CA, USA; American League Futures shortstop Anthony Volpe (7) returns to the dugout after striking out in the first inning of the All Star-Futures Game at Dodger Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports The New York Yankees are ready to unleash their youth in 2023. As things currently stand, Oswald…

We are still in the holiday season with the new year approaching and the Yankees are working behind the scenes to improve their chances at a World Series in 2023. The bombers have been very active thus far in the off-season re-signing Aaron Judge as well as Anthony Rizzo and signing stud starter Carlos Rodon to a six-year deal. Now, the Yankees…

Oct 14, 2022; Bronx, New York, USA; New York Yankees shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa (12) throws to first base to force out Cleveland Guardians left fielder Steven Kwan (not pictured) during the seventh inning in game two of the ALDS for the 2022 MLB Playoffs at Yankee Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports The New York…

Yankees fans are angry. Hal Steinbrenner admitted that himself. However, for those looking for drastic changes to be made to this current lineup, there are not many places to go up from what Brian Cashman already had. The Bombers have a flawed roster with aging players and lineup inconsistency after their stack of Aaron Judge, Anthony Rizzo and…

Associated Press | Ronald Blum: Aaron Judge is now officially a free agent. With the Astros' World Series win on Saturday night, it's officially the offseason, and on Sunday all 131 players entering free agency across the majors were announced. Judge, Jacob deGrom, and Carlos Correa headline this year's free agent class, and all players can begin…

The Yankees' roster has been in a constant state of flux over the past month due to injuries, and the expansion to 28 players in September allowed them to give a couple of young bats a shot. Oswaldo Cabrera and Oswald Peraza certainly made the most of it, but now as the roster shrinks back down to 26 and players start to return in time for…

The Yankees have accomplished everything they need to in the regular season. With the American League East in their possession and no chance of catching the Astros for the AL's top seed, the only thing left to play for is a 100-win season. That means they can finally look ahead. The playoffs (and a first-round bye) are now a certainty, and the…

The New York Yankees keep shooting themselves in the foot. With their Wednesday loss against the Los Angeles Angels, they finished August with a historically bad 10-18 record, and they are 15-24 after the All-Star break. It's hard to believe (and stomach) that the Yanks lost almost as many games in a month than they did before the All-Star break:…

The New York Yankees defeated the Angels last night 7-4 to snap their three-game losing streak. One player who really didn't do much to contribute to that victory is shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa. Well, IKF did what he's done basically all season long. Made a couple of short throws that Rizzo picked out and went 1-4 with a single. IKF is now…

NEW YORK -- The final on-field action of the Yankees' 2022 season occurred at 12:08 a.m. ET on Monday, as Aaron Judge tapped a Ryan Pressly slider back to the pitcher. The Astros' celebration of an American League Championship Series sweep began even before the ball reached first base. Judge ran the play out, then watched for a few seconds as he…

New York Yankees clinch 2022 AL East title in TorontoYankees players gather for a team photo amid a celebration on the field in Toronto as they clinched the 2022 AL East division title. As the Yankees moved closer to an AL East clinching party, manager Aaron Boone appreciated the benefits of planning out a postseason strategy. Over the next week,…

Aaron Judge was given 360 million reasons to stay in pinstripes, validating owner Hal Steinbrenner's promise to make him a Yankee for life. These were must-moves, to varying degrees, assuring that two key lineup figures returned to a club that won the AL East in 2022. But it doesn't make the Yankees any likelier to improve upon their'22 finish,…

Changes are coming to the pinstripes - and it's just not some ugly sleeve advertisement. The New York Yankees made some moves as they face the reality of their disappointing 2023 season. At 60-64, they're in last place in the American League East and nine games behind the third and final wild-card position. Just 38 games remain in their regular…