Quick Perspectives: The No Energy Yankees
- Paul Semendinger
- Dec 26, 2025
- 2 min read
By Paul Semendinger
December 26, 2025
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Seinfeld was a show about nothing.
The 2025-26 Yankees off-season is an off-season about nothing.
As much as some may wish to deny the obvious facts, the energy and excitement coming out out the Yankees is zero. There is nothing. At all. The Yankees right now are as boring as boring can be.
Writers can only write about nothing for so long.
I already stated that I'm bored of the trade speculation, the free agent hopes, and the like. I'd love the Yankees to get Bo Bichette, for example, but I don't see it happening, so I can't write about it. I'd love to see the Yankees trade for a top pitcher, but I don't see it happening, so I won't write ideas about what I hope happens but isn't very likely.
Each year I ask my writers to send me a photo of a baseball or Yankees related holiday gift they received.
I received two photos this year.
Take a moment to consider that for a moment. People are turning to other things.
Even worse, neither of those gifts were Yankees specific. One was a sign with baseball lessons for life. The other was a baseball crossword puzzle book. I didn't buy Ethan any Yankees items. He didn't buy me any. (Ironically, he did buy my wife and I tickets to see...
Jerry Seinfeld.)
The families of the biggest Yankees fans aren't buying Yankees stuff for their loved ones (at least in this small sample size). As far as SSTN goes, that's never happened before.
I never left any open time slots for our articles until yesterday and today. But the Yankees have given us nothing to write. This year I decided to not make the time during the holidays to write about the team that is doing nothing.
This is the energy the Yankees exude. That is just a fact. And it's a shame.
Andy's mailbag will post at 10:00 a.m. today, or thereabouts, as always, today. I might get a 2:00 article posted. Maybe. We'll see.
Bottom line - by and large, the Yankees haven't given us anything to write about.
That's on them. Not us.
Hopefully that changes soon.
I have an article coming, maybe tomorrow, on the divide among Yankees fans... I believe it is very balanced and accurate.
In the meantime, I have this thought...
There are fans, some who comment here, that always feel the need to make excuses for the Yankees.
"They did what they could."
"They had injuries."
"The rest of the league is quiet."
"The made a fair offer - they were just outbid."
"The umps aren't fair."
"The league is against them."
On and on... the iterations of this are endless.
Bottom line, if the Yankees were winning World Series, they wouldn't need their fans to make excuses for them.
Winners don't need excuses.
This is the missing element that the excuse…
This is the first year in a LONG time that I didn’t receive any Yankee stuff for Christmas, not even a stocking stuffer. Largely due to me telling my wife and daughters not to get any. I don’t want to give Hal any more of my family’s money.
it most certainly has been a non-noteworthy news off-season for fans of the New York Yankees.
as well, it's been pretty unexciting for the fans of the other pro baseball teams.
I've entertained the thought that the Yankee organization evaluated the team proir to the trade deadline during the past season and acquired some patches for the weakest of their weak spots.
they brought in a couple of good relief pitchers and a couple of infielders.
it left the team without a glaring need to do much more than to re-stock the outfield.
the team still has places that should be improved and improvements will always be desirable
but the outfield had to be considered as being the priority.
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Paul, to your point. If you go on the Yankees website this morning the top story in "Headlines" is titled "How Steinbrenner's Seinfeld cameo got cut".
My Guesstimations:
Boras/Bellinger: I believe they have the Yankees contract proposals. I have listed here 2 of them, one 5 year, and one 6-year deal. Boras is hoping Tucker gets that huge deal, so he can get Bellinger a big deal I believe no matter where Bellinger ends up, Bellinger will not get much more than what anyone guessed at the beginning of free agency.
Whether we like it or not, the Yankees re-signed Trent Grisham with a $17M raise. They also have a MLB OF bat in Jasson Dominguez on the roster, plus both Spencer & Brendan Jones sitting in AAA. Say what you want about Dominguez's routes to the ball, he showed his bat is ready, and Grisha…