Welcome to Wacky Wednesday with Washington. Was that just an excuse for dumb alliteration? Well, we\u2019ll weather such worries whenever Will Warren weighs in.<\/p>\n
OK fine, now I\u2019m done, but only to a certain extent. For today\u2019s prompt, we want to be a little less serious and just consider what the funniest possible outcome for the Yankees\u2019 2026 season might be. This could be either \u201cpositive\u201d funny, like Trent Grisham randomly popping off for 34 homers last year after nearly being non-tendered, or \u201cnegative\u201d funny, like Jasson Dom\u00ednguez finally getting a starting outfield shot and then doing \u2026 whatever the hell he was doing on defense<\/a> in 2025. Feel free to get creative! I would personally love it if Jake Bird because a vital bullpen piece after being almost completely written off after his rapid post-Trade Deadline implosion in 2025. Or in a more outlandish world, if Luis Gil and Austin Wells decided to write a Todd-esque rock opera<\/a>.<\/p>\n Today on the site, Andr\u00e9s will delve into why he\u2019s excited to watch 2024 first-rounder Ben Hess develop this year. We\u2019ll also have Sam celebrating Paul O\u2019Neill\u2019s 63rd birthday (yowza), Jeremy previewing Ryan McMahon\u2019s first full season in pinstripes since coming over from the Rockies at the 2025 Trade Deadline, and Peter previewing the ever-rebuilding Nationals. Lastly, prospect specialist Nolan Rabine bids a fond farewell to Pinstripe Alley with a final look at the prospects he\u2019s most looking forward to watching from the metaphorical PSA sidelines in 2026.<\/p>\n New York Yankees vs. Washington Nationals<\/p>\n Video: YES Network, Nats.tv (MLB.tv)<\/p>\n Venue: George M. Steinbrenner Field, Tampa, FL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Wacky Wednesday with Washington. Was that just an excuse for dumb alliteration? Well, we\u2019ll weather such…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,4,1690,62,2548,2547,7660,3997,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-592062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-yankees","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkyankees","14":"tag-pinstripe-alley-discussions","15":"tag-today-on-pinstripe-alley","16":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116131324857351880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592062","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=592062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}