A baseball clubhouse is a sacred and strange place, with rules and codes and language dictating so much. Different people are allowed to do different things, say different things, go different places. The metaphors are truly everywhere. This isn’t the type of thing that most people get to see, but

This Q&A is excerpted from an interview for the New York Yankees Official Podcast. Subscribe at yankees.com/podcast or the podcast platform of your choice, or watch every episode on the Gotham Sports app or MLB.com. Every family has its own legacy, physical in some ways, intangible in others. There are

As the 1987 season began, Ron Guidry was without a team. After going 9-12 in ’86, the left-hander became embroiled in a contract dispute with the Yankees, and when Opening Day came around, the 36-year-old free agent still hadn’t signed anywhere. When New York’s starting pitching staff struggled out of

This was one of those lazy, mid-March mornings in Spring Training, a no-man’s land in the schedule where Opening Day still felt like a lifetime away. The Yankees were preparing for another leisurely Grapefruit League game, but that didn’t mean the club’s hierarchy wasn’t dealing with a pressing issue --

A video montage of John Sterling’s career had played at Yankee Stadium. Michael Kay and Suzyn Waldman, his familiar Yankees broadcast partners, had laid bouquets of flowers at home plate, and the massive scoreboard showed a still picture of the radio booth, empty, but for a lone microphone. Now, there

It is rare to see the Yankees make a trade with the division rival Red Sox. So, you can imagine Elmer Rodríguez’s surprise on Dec. 11, 2024, when the former Boston farmhand found out he was being dealt to the Yankees in exchange for catcher Carlos Narváez. Shock and mixed

This Q&A is excerpted from an interview for the New York Yankees Official Podcast. Subscribe at yankees.com/podcast or the podcast platform of your choice, or watch every episode on the Gotham Sports app or MLB.com. One of the things that makes baseball so unique is the consistency contained alongside the

A few minutes after noon on a cold December day, the now-61-year-old Dwight Gooden, forever a New York sports icon, walked into the bar room of one of his old hideaways, Peter Luger Steak House in Great Neck, New York. Although it has been more than four decades since Gooden

Austin Wells emerged from his second meeting of the afternoon and walked back toward his locker, iPad in hand. This is 2026, so for a baseball player, Apple’s tablet is almost as important as a bat or glove. The iPad has everything: videos, scouting reports, analysis. It also has the

The two infielders stood maybe 25 yards apart, trying to ignore the cold that enveloped them. Whipping a baseball back and forth to loosen up their arms on this frigid April day in New York City, they took a few steps closer to each other with each relay. Just 20

As the Yankees slugged their way to a season-opening sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers in 2025, the name Cam Schlittler wasn’t necessarily top of mind in the Bronx. A seventh-round pick in 2022 out of Northeastern, he had produced a breakout 2024 season in the Minors, earning South Atlantic League

The location might not have been one that Cody Bellinger had expected to be visiting after he went through the free-agent process over the winter, but the uniform he was wearing, well, that made perfect sense. On a chilly February day in Tampa, Fla., the Yankees’ big league squad was

The Yankees’ season was hanging by a thread. After dropping the first two games of the 2025 American League Division Series in Toronto, they trailed the Blue Jays again in Game 3 at Yankee Stadium. Down by three runs in the bottom of the fourth, the home team mounted its

The first, second, third and 97th thing that you notice at the World Baseball Classic is the noise. It is consuming. It compounds. It assumes an almost liquid state, sloshing around in time, meeting some moments and altogether creating others. It is unique and occasionally painful. It is incredible. Major

If you had to choose a single word to describe Scott Burrows, you couldn’t do any better than “Australian.” Everything about the guy screams it, in a way that towers over any other attribute you see upon meeting him. He’s incredibly tall, but stature has nothing on his big, jovial

As the legendary Yankees center fielder stepped into the spotlight on one of the world’s most famous stages, a familiar chant, emanating from fans seated far away, filled his ears. “Ber-nie Wil-liams!” clap-clap clap-clap-clap “Ber-nie Wil-liams!” clap-clap clap-clap-clap The Bleacher Creatures had made their way to Carnegie Hall, trading their

After an impressive three months in the Majors, Cam Schlittler was given the ball for the winner-take-all Game 3 of the 2025 Wild Card Series at Yankee Stadium against the Boston Red Sox. The 24-year-old rookie from Walpole, Mass., embraced the challenge of facing the team he grew up rooting

Anthony Rizzo took his place behind the rostrum in late January, flanked by the best baseball players in today’s game. The former first baseman, recently retired and looking trim and happy in his sharp tuxedo, was tasked with presenting the 2025 American League MVP Award to his good friend Aaron

Giancarlo Stanton’s rise to his current place as one of the most feared and respected hitters in the big leagues hasn’t been linear. He has had incredible highs but also had to fight through the adversity that comes with injuries. Across 16 Major League seasons, though, his work ethic and

Nothing upends the family dynamic -- in a good way -- like the birth of a child. The exciting announcement that the baby has arrived is soon followed by a torrent of well-wishers eager to get a first peek at the bundle of joy. As the other members of the

I can see why it wouldn’t make much sense to someone watching for the first time. I raced all the way to the warning track in left field, almost 250 feet in a dead sprint from where I’d started, just in front of second base. I love sprinting. It’s one

Aaron Judge debuted at Yankee Stadium on a memorable afternoon in 2016. With the Yankees having honored the Core Four during a pregame ceremony, history -- recent, but already iconic -- was in the air. And the game, itself, would deliver a contemporary addition to the nostalgia. Batting eighth on

It is the night before Max Fried is scheduled to take the ball at Yankee Stadium, and he describes the scene this way: He is on the couch in his Manhattan apartment, laptop open, video of himself pitching paused mid-delivery. Two dogs sprint across the hardwood floor, chasing a tennis

During the late innings of a game at Yankee Stadium in early August, a graphic titled “Down on the Farm” was displayed on the video board in center field. The feature, which appears during every Yankees home game, showcases the accomplishments of a player in the organization’s Minor League system.

For baseball fans -- particularly those whose teams have a legitimate shot at making the postseason -- the Trade Deadline can feel a lot like a holiday, the day you find out what the baseball gods have given you. This year, Ryan McMahon was one of those proverbial presents under