Sports Info Solutions | Mark Simon: The Fielding Bible Awards honored their 20th class of MLB-best defenders this season, and the Yankees’ Max Fried earned the most votes of any pitcher in the league after picking up 10 Defensive Runs Saved in 2025 and leading all pitchers in assists with 39. It’s Fried’s second time winning a Fielding Bible, the first coming in 2020, and the first time any Yankee pitcher has received the honor. FanGraphs’ Ben Clemens was on the panel of voters and discussed his methodology
for Fried, who earned his top vote in large part by being the best pitcher at controlling the run game this year.
MLB.com | Bryan Hoch: The Yankees’ rotation plans for 2026 have high hopes with the return of Gerrit Cole and Clarke Schmidt on the horizon, but they have to make it past an awkward stretch to open the season where they won’t be available, and that period became even more muddled when news broke that Carlos Rodón underwent a procedure to deal with loose bodies and a bone spur in his left elbow last week. Speaking recently at a presser, general manager Brian Cashman admits that it wasn’t something on their radar as recently as a few weeks ago, but now the possibility of being active on the starting pitching market is rising in order to deal with the vacancies that their Opening Day rotation faces.
NY Post | Justin Terranova: Cam Schlittler shoved against the Red Sox in his postseason debut, and he did so with a chip on his shoulder after some Boston fans on social media went after his mom and other members of his family. The grudge now appears set, as Schlittler was signing for a fan outside of Madison Square Garden with the Knicks kicking off their season and responded to the fan shouting F- Boston with an F- bomb of his own. Perhaps we’ll see more of a true hatred between the archrivals seep in as new blood gets introduced, after the last decade of The Rivalry saw a détente emerge out of the absolute bloodbath that was their 2000s matchups.
Of minor note is that Schlittler was at the game with Yankees captain Aaron Judge, as well as reliever Devin Williams. With the season concluded Williams is a pending free agent, but there’s interest in a return and staying connected with the captain and rising star of the rotation is a positive sign in that direction.
MLB.com | Manny Randhawa: Lou Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech is an classic moment of the sport’s history, but it was not the last time he put on the Yankees uniform in Yankee Stadium. That moment came on October 5, 1939, when Game 2 of the World Series concluded. Gehrig had remained on the team’s bench for their run at the championship, and the uniform he wore that day just sold at auction for $2.712 million, the most of any Gehrig memorabilia.
