{"id":538551,"date":"2026-01-26T05:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/538551\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T05:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:25:12","slug":"yankees-news-stacking-up-the-al-east-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/538551\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees news: Stacking up the AL East rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Daily News | Peter Sblendorio<\/a>: The major business for the Yankees seems to be done for the winter, after the team agreed to terms with Cody Bellinger last week. That makes Belli the biggest addition (or retread) of the club alongside the returning Trent Grisham and new Yankees pitcher Ryan Weathers. It\u2019s not exactly as big a splash as some of the division opponents have made in the offseason, with the Blue Jays, Red Sox, and Orioles all on paper a little better than they were to end 2025. The Yankees are betting on repeating 2025\u2019s \u201csuccess,\u201d with a very similar roster, and it\u2019ll take a few months to see if that wager is a fruitful one.<\/p>\n

MLB.com | Bryan Murphy<\/a>: A key to the Yankees\u2019 success in 2026 will be a rerun of Carlos Rod\u00f3n\u2019s strong campaign, even as the lefty continues to rehab from elbow surgery in his pitching arm. The nominal #1-B pitcher had bone chips removed from the joint back in October, and while he is still expected to start the season on the IL, his recovery seems to be progressing normally. Rod\u00f3n himself seems excited that he can button his own shirt, and if that\u2019s the mile marker he needs to be at at this stage, that\u2019s good news.<\/p>\n

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FanGraphs | David Laurila<\/a>: By now we know two former Yankees were voted into Cooperstown, with Andruw Jones and Carlos Beltr\u00e1n getting the requisite 75 percent of the BBWAA vote for enshrinement. Another ex-bomber, Bobby Abreu, seems to be having a tougher time building a voting case for himself, and with three years remaining on the ballot, he may end up falling just short of baseball\u2019s most exclusive club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Daily News | Peter Sblendorio: The major business for the Yankees seems to be done for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13424,5,50581,325,2004,1365,13608,4,89,1073,1414,122,142],"class_list":["post-538551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-andruw-jones","tag-baseball","tag-bobby-abreu","tag-carlos-beltran","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-division-opponents","tag-mlb","tag-red-sox","tag-ryan-weathers","tag-the-blue-jays","tag-trent-grisham","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115959740962807005","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}