Here are the 26 players I believe will be on the roster on April 1. Aroldis Chapman Gerrit Cole Domingo German Chad Green Corey Kluber Jonathan Loaisiga Tyler Lyons Michael King

Jonny Lo on IL for "shoulder discomfort." Stanton to IL. Gallo activated. McKay and Spears called up. Brantly DFA'd Sill no DJ in lineup. BALTIMORE Mullins (CF) -- .240 Mancini (1B) -- .293 Santander (LF) -- .225 Hays (RF) -- .284 Mountcastle (DH) -- .264 Rutschman (C) -- .188 Urias (3B) -- .227 Odor (2B ) -- .220 Mateo (SS) -- .213 Wells (P) -- 1-3, 4.41 NEW YORK Hicks (CF) -- .216 Judge (RF) -- .314 Rizzo (1B) -- .232 Torres (2B) -- .241 Andujar (LF) -- .200 Gallo (DH) -- .176 Kiner-Falefa (SS) -- .261 Gonzalez (3B) -- .205 Higashioka (C) -- .154 Sears (P) -- 1-0, 0.00 Game on YES and free on mlb.tv (out-of-market)

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all-time in WAR as a Yankee) joined Mattingly as the only great Yankees to never win a championship ring Which brings us, finally, to the 10 th greatest New York Yankee by WAR, and the greatest Yankees position player with only one ring, Alex Rodriguez.

Music to our ears!! DJ is back Still no Hicks! Gallo dropped to 9th. On fuster's call, Mar-Gon gets a day off. NEW YORK LeMahieu (3B) -- .250 (111) Judge (CF) -- .305 (198) Rizzo (1B) -- .221 (139) Torres (2B) -- .234 (109) Andujar (LF) -- .286 (80) Carpenter (DH) -- .200 (260) Kiner-Falefa (SS) -- .257 (81) Trevino (C) -- .246 (95) Gallo (RF) -- .168 (78) Cole (P) -- 4-1, 3.31 Numbers in ( ) are wRC+ TAMPA BAY Diaz (3B) -- .262 Choi (1B) -- .267 Franco (SS) -- .262 Arozarena (DH) -- .259 Margot (LF) -- .353 Keirmaier (CF) -- .239 Mejia (C) -- .241 Phillips (RF) -- .221 Walls (2B) -- .150 Kluber (P) -- 1-2, 4.42 Game on YES

Still no DJ! No Hicks! Donaldson transferred to 10 Day IL with "shoulder inflammation." Judge Streak: I believe that Judge has homered in every streaming game this year. NEW YORK Judge (CF) -- .313 Rizzo (1B) -- .226 Torres (2B) -- .234 Andujar (LF) -- .294 Carpenter (DH) -- .000 Kiner-Falefa (SS) -- .257 Gallo (RF) -- .165 Higashioka (C) -- .162 Gonzalez (3B) -- .220 Taillon (P) -- 4-1, 2.95 TAMPA BAY Kiermaier (CF) -- .248 Diaz (3B) -- .268 Franco (SS) -- .267 Arozarena (LF) -- .257 Choi (1B) -- .276 Ramirez (RF) -- .295 Margot (DH) -- .354 Brujan (2B) -- .140 Zunino (C) -- .158 Springs (P) -- 2-1, 1.32 Game on Amazon Prime

MATT SAUER, RHP (#26): Age/Date of Birth: 22 Years Old (01/21/1999) Most Recent Team(s) (Level and Year 67.0 innings, and have a 3.90 ERA while being about 2.5 years younger than everybody else. 2019 would bring

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by EJ Fagan August 14, 2024 *** NOTE: The following comes from EJ Fagan's substack page and is shared with permission. This was published a few days ago so the stats don't include the last few games. Please check out EJ's substack page for more great articles. *** The Yankees will play the Dodgers in the 2024 World Series. Heck yeah. I’m going to try to find some time to write a full breakdown before Friday. But I have some big picture thoughts about the ALCS and World Series first. Hitting wins in the playoffs I heard the old maxim a million times over decades: hitting wins in the regular season, pitching wins in the playoffs. I’m pretty sure that isn’t true today. The Yankees beat Cleveland by wearing them down with hitting. They ground away at Cleveland’s lackluster starting pitching, forcing the Guardians to use the best bullpen in baseball early and often. Cleveland almost never allowed big crooked numbers, but eventually caved under pressure from Judge, Stanton, Soto, Torres, Volpe and Rizzo in four out of five games. The Guardians had no way to counterpunch with the same kind of sustained pressure. They got a few big home runs, but had neither the depth nor the power to capitalize on all of those Stephen Kwan singles. They didn’t draw a boatload of walks. Yankee starters were able to last into the 5th inning despite not being very sharp. The 2021 Braves and 2023 Rangers had similar stories: good enough pitching and elite offense. The 2022 Astros had the best pitching staff in the league, but were no slouches on offense either. The Yankees and Dodgers were two of the three best offenses in the league and beat elite pitching staffs in San Diego and Kansas City, plus the incredible Cleveland bullpen. Every team is going to have a full staff of fireballers these days. Only a few will be be able to develop and buy the elite talent that the Yankees and Dodgers have. A Great Bullpen is Overrated in the Playoffs Conversely, I think we all witnessed the limitation of a great bullpen in the Cleveland series. Ever since the 2015 Royals, the conventional wisdom has been to rely on relief over starting pitching in the playoffs. I think we saw the limitation of that strategy in New York. Most of Cleveland’s bullpen saw the top Yankees hitters 3 or 4 times during the 5-game series. Just look at their ERAs: If Cleveland had managed to hold off the Yankees in Game 5, this group would have been completely gassed for the last two games in the series. I think the lesson for baseball is that you can’t manage a 7-game series in full sprint mode. Even in 2024, you need to get a lot more out of your starting pitching than Cleveland managed to, especially early. What about the Dodgers? They just won Game 6 on a pure bullpen day. I think they dodged (pun intended) a bullet. The Dodgers didn’t have to use their full bullpen in most of the NLCS games because they weren’t very close. It was a series of blowouts for both teams. Had these games been close, they would have ended up in the exact same spot as the Guardians. The Yankees Match Up Well Against the Dodgers I have will a lot more to say about the matchup before Friday, but I am very happy that the Yankees are playing the Dodgers rather than the Mets. New York would have thrown three lefty starters against the Yankees. The Dodgers have one lefty on their entire roster in Anthony Banda. Los Angeles can’t exploit the Yankees’ biggest weakness. Similarly, the Yankees are well positioned to exploit the Dodgers weakness in having no starting pitching. Yankee hitters have been wearing down pitchers all playoffs. They should be able to force a lot of relief pitchers into games. And, unlike the Guardians, the Dodgers bullpen is merely good. It’s better than the Yankees bullpen, but has a lot of ERAs in the 3.00s. The Yankees should be able to score runs off them, especially if they can tire them out early in the series. That’s it for now! Friday can’t come soon enough.

RP – Darren O’Day RP – Zack Britton RP – Aroldis Chapman RP – Justin Wilson That’s 22 locks out of 26 Is he a better option than say Tyler Lyons, Michael King, Adam Warren, Nick Nelson, or Kyle Barraclough

By E.J. Fagan October 4, 2025 *** NOTE: The following comes from EJ Fagan's substack page  and is shared with permission. Please check out EJ's substack page for more great articles. *** The Boston Red Sox were a scary team to face in a three game series. Garrett Crochet was not only one of the best pitchers in baseball in 2025, but he matches up incredibly well against the Yankees left-handed lineup. Add on a lefty-heavy bullpen and the Red Sox were able to neutralize a lot of the Yankees strengths. There’s a reason why the Yankees lost so many games to Boston this year. Yet the Yankees were able to pull out wins in Games 2 and 3. Now they face the Toronto Blue Jays in the playoffs for the first time ever. While they just managed to hold on to a division lead against a charging Yankees squad, Toronto is an inferior team to the Red Sox, especially against the Yankees. Here is the all-righty rotation that Toronto will throw out: Game 1: Kevin Gausman, 3.59 ERA, 3.42 xERA Game 2: Shane Bieber, 3.57 ERA, 3.84 xERA Game 3: Trey Yesavage, 3.21 ERA, 4.14 xERA (14 innings, barely pitched above High-A). That’s pretty underwhelming stuff. The Yankees are probably at a slight disadvantage against Gausman, but only because they have to pitch Warren or Gil in Game 1. Max Fried and Carlos Rodon in Games 2 and 3 will be strong favorites, and Cam Schlittler in Game 4 might be better than any of them. The Jays' bullpen isn’t much better: Toronto has relied on a high powered offense to win games in 2025. And they definitely have some real weapons in George Springer and Vlad Guerrero Jr. The Blue Jays were second in runs per game in the American League behind the Yankees, roughly equivalent to Boston in third place. But, like Boston, one of their best hitters won’t play against the Yankees. Bo Bichette is out with a knee injury. Toronto’s roster is pretty deep behind Bichette and their two stars, with lots of above average hitters like Dalton Varsho, Alejandro Kirk and Addison Barger. But can that group compete with the Yankees? Here’s every starter in the series by wRC+, Yankees underlined. Aaron Judge 204 wRC+ George Springer 166 wRC+ Giancarlo Stanton 158 wRC+ Vlad Guerrero Jr 137 wRC+ Ben Rice 133 wRC+ Trent Grisham 129 wRC+ Jazz Chisholm 126 wRC+ Cody Bellinger 125 wRC+ Dalton Varsho 122 wRC+ Alejandro Kirk 111 wRC+ Addison Barger 107 wRC+ Nathan Lukes 103 wRC+ Ernie Clement 98 wRC+ Austin Wells 97 wRC+ Ryan McMahon 86 wRC+ Andreas Gimenez 70 wRC+ Anthony Santander 61 wRC+ Antony Volpe 83 wRC+ The Yankees are just a bit better across the board. Springer and Guerrero are great, but Judge and Stanton are better. McMahon, Wells and Volpe are bad hitters, but can match Clement, Gimenez and Santander. But I’d argue that the biggest advantage for the Yankees is in the middle: Rice, Bellinger, Grisham and Chisholm are each way better than any of the middle of Toronto’s lineup. There’s a reason why Toronto’s expected record based on runs scored/allowed record comes out to 9 wins few than the Yankees. The Yankees are a better team. Could the Yankees stumble in a short series? Of course, especially given how the Blue Jays get to face Will Warren or Luis Gil rather than Max Fried in Game 1. But if you even out all of the randomness of baseball, the Yankees should win every game. Yankees in 3.