November 6, 2026

92 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Bellinger (LF), Wells (C), Caballero (UTIL) nominated for Gold Gloves”

  1. Who cares? If cabby wins it will just cost the yanks more money.
    Nice to see Jake Bauers doing well on another team. Too bad he couldn’t do that with us.

  5. i guess besides the dodgers getting eliminated i am most excited for the time to elapse on jazz chisolm’s QO so the Yankees can be officially free of him.

    1. Hear, hear. Why, give him a good manager to keep him focused, and he could start.

      Think he’s got a mutual option in Milwaukee, so no way is he coming back to New York.

  9. The Yankees are expected to extend the $23.15 million qualifying offer to free agent closer David Bednar, who had a terrific year, sources say.

    Meantime, it’s believed the Yankees are unlikely to extend the same offer to second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., which would represent a shocking turn off his 30-30 2025 season.

    Chisholm kindly said he’d like to be back after the Yankees’ sudden playoff exit, but word is Yankees higher-ups believe it’s time to move on following his rough season. (They may also believe he might accept, considering he said he wants to stay.)

    https://nypost.com/2026/10/15/sports/how-the-yankees-qualifying-offer-calls-are-expected-to-shake-out/

  10. I don’t get how you don’t bring Chisholm back on the QO. I think the Grisham QO was fine, and Jazz is a better player than Grisham, so I don’t get it. I don’t even necessarily want Jazz back, but for a one-year deal at $23.15 million, that’s a totally reasonable salary allotment.

    Take away Grisham’s salary and LeMahieu’s dead money, and you’re not even adding THAT much money by keeping Chisholm and Bednar around for one more year on their QOs (Bednar made $9 million last year, and Jazz made $10.2 million).

    Jazz and Bednar’s QOs are $27.1 million more than they made last year, but Grisham’s $22 million will be gone, as well as LeMahieu’s dead money of $16 million.

    1. Yea but who else’s salary is going up? And how will they improve?
      Of course the question is if they let Jazz leave where will they find a better 2b? So I can see why it might be worth it.

    2. The arb guys will definitely raise some salary, as well, and I imagine that that is what Cashman is thinking, that he will need Jazz’s QO salary to sign other guys, mainly Blackburn, a couple of other relievers, and Sato.

      Actually, if the Yankees are truly in on Sato, then that would need much of that QO money.

      Will Warren should also truly be able to get them someone good for second base or third, right?

    3. maybe, but the question is who is available for a Warren trade. I have no idea, but I hope that the guy who has been the Yankees GM longer than any other active GM in the four major sports has some ideas. I would prefer moving someone like Warren for a younger ML-ready 3B (White Sox Caleb Bonemer) than an aging vet on an expensive deal (Marte) or pending FA (Brendan Donovan). Fix this gap now since the Yankees traded away their 3B prospects who are now showing out on other teams. Unless they have an in-house plan who may need another year or so.

      But Cash is going to do Cash things, so we’ll all find out together.

    4. Sato seems like the real deal, though. .306 with 39 homers and 106 RBIs in Japan this past season. It’s not MUCH of a Triple Crown, but it was still a Triple Crown.

      You’d like to believe he could at least hit .260 with 20 homers here.

    5. A trade for Bonemer would be the gift that keeps giving to the headline writers.

      Also, Marte seems like a sure bet for clubhouse dysfunction at best, and thrown games at worst. I’d give Jazz a QO before taking Marte (and I wouldn’t give Jazz a QO).

    6. LeMahieu’s dead money is now reincarnated as McMahon’s walking-dead money.

      Of all the options, I agree with y’all that Sato seems the least-worst, and seems absolutely worth going for.

    7. stanton’s dead money walking

      just those two guys make half of what the brewers paid for their squad

      *active roster

    1. Yup. It’s not like he left and immediately learned how to hit. And if he’s in fact a free agent I’d stay far away. Shades of Grisham and Hicks and others who had career years right before free agency.

    2. No but Bauers is the kind of guy who teams find on the side of the road and figure out how to use them and they give them one or two good years and then disappear. Teams don’t need Jake Bauers, but they need to hit on someone like the Brewers did with Bauers. It also shows some serious work on their part.

      As a Yankee, Bauers had an rOBA of .301, which was pretty consistent and somewhat improved over his previous stops (in order: .305, .297, .268). Bauer’s highest K% was with the Yankees at 34.9% and he also logged his 2nd lowest BB% at 9.9%.

      Since going to Milwaukee, they’ve obviously worked with Bauers to make improvements:
      2024: .300 rOBA, 34.1 K%, 11.3 BB%
      2025: .340 rOBA, 27.1 K%, 14.7 BB%
      2026: .381 rOBA, 27.0 K%, 16.3 BB%

      His aEV improved to 92.1 mph in that time, too. And lastly, they’ve turned him into a full-time hitter. As a Yankee, Bauers had 28 PAs against LHPs with a .474 OPS. As Brewer, he’s had 35 PAs with a .680 OPS in 2024, 17 PAs with a .561 OPS and this season with 160 PAs and a .901 OPS.

      Good for him. I think the Brewers are really a gold standard for how to run a franchise right now. They’re committed to replenishing their prospects whenever they can and aggressively pressure pitchers.

    1. No, Don, we cannot and will not ignore Nazis in this country. Miller is engaged in ethnic cleansing, and his secret police are committing domestic terrorism akin to the late-19th-century KKK (if it were federally supported). A majority of the GOP is engaged in the systematic dehumanization, deprivation of human rights, and gradual outlawing of entire categories of American citizens (trans, gay, Muslim, and women, to name a few). This is all to say nothing of the explicitly impeachable offenses of bribery (by corporations and foreign governments) and treason (authorizing payments to Russia despite the sanctions that were just instituted on account of its direct military support for Iran against US forces – in what is, incidentally, an illegal, unauthorized, and idiotic war of aggression; stupidity isn’t grounds for impeachment / removal, but bribery and treason are). And all of this evil – all of it – is being done for the benefit of a convicted fraudster and adjudicated sexual abuser (see Carroll v. Trump) whose extraordinary number of mentions in the Epstein files include allegations from a 13-year-old victim that the FBI found credible.

      Pretending that one can simply “dump” the topic is tantamount to supporting Nazism, treason, and bribery, in service of protecting a likely pedophile. Pretending it isn’t happening doesn’t save you the embarrassment that you think it does. Pretending it isn’t happening only makes the problem worse.

    3. I’ve said my piece here and see no use in arguing with a delusional bigot. Everyone can see whose side you’re on.

  16. Belittling the people who actually suffered under real Nazis by throwing the word around at whoever they disagree with is some strange voodoo by liberals.

    “liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views”.

    2. You make a ridiculously bad-faith argument that calling out modern day Nazis somehow disrespects the victims of past Nazis. The whole point of “never again” is that it’s supposed to be “never again to anybody”. One honors the memory of Holocaust victims by recognizing the signs of impending or ongoing genocide; scrutinizing and evaluating the ideology and actions; and stopping them before even more harm is done. (Would you defer biopsy of suspicious pulmonary nodules until the patient also developed brain metastases, because, well, diagnosing a cancer early would somehow dishonor the memory of the folks who died from metastatic cancer?) To say that the term “Nazi” should be reserved only for members of a German political party from 90 years ago is a particularly stupid argument, as their genocidal ideology and even their imagery and propaganda have survived and manifest in today’s Republican party.
      https://www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-new-page/statement-on-the-normalization-of-nazism-in-the-u.s-government

    3. Those of us who paid attention in Hebrew school can easily recognize this particular movement for what it is. Dehumanization of specific groups in society (Latinos, Muslims, Somali immigrants, Haitian immigrants), and calls for their removal, have been essential components of its platform since 2015. The alarm bells were loud and clear back then, and have only rung louder and clearer since.

      Or, as UJD noted above, Nazi is as Nazi does.
      https://forsea.co/do-trumps-policies-amount-to-the-ethnic-cleansing-of-america/

  18. I agree that this is not the place for politics. The same goes for rock concerts. Any position you take will be disagreed with by about 50% of the attendees or in this case fellow RLYWers. Let’s keep this site a place where we can share our love for the Yankees and hatred of Hal/cash/Boone.
    (And Nazis I hope.)

    1. I too would love to just talk Yankees, and I too would hope that we were united in our hatred of Nazis, but I’m not convinced that Don can recognize them with their uniforms off.

  21. Herrin comes in to pitch. They get Simpson at the plate for the first out, then a K, and the 3rd out on a pop-up.Great job by Herrin there, coming into that mess and shutting it down. 2-1 Rays in the 6th.

  25. Jon Heyman this week highlighted that the Yankees have previously shown interest in Nationals center fielder Jacob Young. Arbitration-eligible for the first time, the 27-year-old is not known for his bat (his 95 wRC+ in 2026 was a career-high),

    Ryan MacMahon in center?

  26. Pretty good defender, though. But the numbers have gone down each year.

    Jacob Young OAA by Season

    • 2024: +20 OAA (tied for the MLB lead among outfielders)
    • 2025: +14 OAA (ranked 3rd in MLB)
    • 2026: +11 OAA

    1. I’ll be watching for the Brewers. They’re the opposite of everything people complain about the modern game. They’re a team built around defense and a high pressure offense relying on competitive PAs, not chasing, with high contact and avoiding Ks combined with flame throwing starters and a bullpen of unassuming dudes off the scrap heap. Brian Cashman could take some lessons from them.

  32. I’ve been mulling this over in my head since the Yankees got booted easily by Tampa. They’re a stale organization. Their payroll and structure encourages them to be complacent. Every other team in professional sports turns over their management structure every few years for one reason or another (usually an ownership change, a failed rebuild, retirement, or general decline). Some times it works, sometimes it doesn’t. The Yankees don’t ever have to reorganize. They’ve been owned by the same family for more than 50 years. The current GM has been the GM for 52% of that time. Just three guys have been the manager for nearly 30 years and each ranking in the top 7 of Yankee managers all time.

    Most of the other organizations have a reboot time and time again. They get new blood, new decision makers and they have to experiment with different philosophies and strategies to stay competitive or they get replaced. The Yankees don’t. Cashman does look outside of the box and they do employ some strategic shifts, but it’s often too little too late or on the margins (outside of Matt Blake notably). The last slew of developmental Yankees seems to be working out amazingly, but the team is still slow, old, and prone to disappearing offenses against great pitching.

    Anyway, TL;DR, I’m starting to think that the regular season is a crapshoot due the number of games papering over bad series and the teams built for playoffs against other good teams is the way to go. The Yankees are on the outside looking in because they’re a stale organization.

    2. Hear, hear. And the stagnation gets worse because Hal and Boone are nepo babies who tend to complacency rather than accountability. Even if they signal outwardly that they’re frustrated, they don’t seem to take actions that change the underlying problems. Maybe because the requisite introspection is uncomfortable, or maybe just because they are not used to being held accountable and don’t know how to hold themselves nor someone else accountable either.

      I really wonder whether Hal is capable of change.

    2. The Yankees medical staff is like, “you ok?” “Yup.” “Ok, go get ’em tiger.”

      then the team and fans wonder why Wells looked typical in April and then completely disappeared for 2 1/2 months.

  34. Hoch Can confirm that Aaron Boone will return for a 10th season as Yankees manager. His current contract runs through 2027. @pcaldera was on it.

    Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner is reportedly “very upset” following the team’s swift departure from the 2026 postseason.

    Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

    Cognitive dissonance

    1. The Hal-Cash-Boone triumvirate reminds me of Brendan Behan’s joke about critics.
      They know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves.

  37. “Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner is reportedly “very upset” following the team’s swift departure from the 2026 postseason.”
    …
    Very upset, I have no doubt.
    Not as upset, of course, as when his reserve golf partner explained over lunch that fondue is Swiss, not Swedish.
    But VERY upset, indeed.

    1. How does that make follow?
      The team that swept the Yankees continues to show that it’s just plain better than than the Yankees – and got there at a fraction of the cost.
      That doesn’t sound at all like a crapshoot. It sounds like the Rays doing a far, far better job with far less in the way of resources than Hal and his favorites.

  41. So the team with the best record in the AL will face the team with the best record in the NL in the WS.
    Maybe the playoffs aren’t as big a crapshoot as the excuse makers say. .

  43. the thing about replacing boone is that he probably had his best 162. still crap in the postseason but there will never be a different result with him and cash.

    i’ll put them down for 95 wins and heartbreak again next season.

    1. Aaron Boone has been manipulated by his psychiatrist into thinking he is his players’ best buddy, but not like in a way that he’d actually be honest with them about their problems.

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