The McMahon trade was a smart way to support the Yankees’ pitching. It will likely help their investment in $218 million man Max Fried, who leads the league in groundballs and has had 15 errors committed behind him this year. The infield defense needed tightening. But that won’t matter if the bullpen keeps handing games away.

After a disappointing 12–5 loss to the Phillies, the Yankees sent down two players as they look to fix their struggling bullpen.

Tonight’s MLB slate features the New York Yankees facing their rival, the Philadelphia Phillies, on the MLB Friday Night Baseball slate.

Paul Goldschmidt wishes he had played it differently during the Yankees' game against the Phillies. Instead of attempting an off-balance throw to home plate, he believes he should have gone for the out at first base.

Major League Baseball's trade deadline, scheduled for July 31, is now just a week away. In other words, it's that blessed (or cursed, depending on your perspective) time of the year when rumors and transactions dominate our coverage.

If former MLB manager Joe Maddon were at the helm of the Yankees, the floundering Anthony Volpe would be heading back down to Triple-A. “I think there’s got to be some consideration, or thought, or talking about him possibly going back down,” Maddon said Thursday on MLB Network’s “MLB Now.”

Kyle Schwarber hit a pair of two-run homers and J.T. Realmuto followed the Yankees’ ninth error in four games with a tiebreaking, three-run drive in a four-run seventh inning, lifting the Philadelphia Phillies over New York 12-5.

The Yankees had high hopes for Effross when they acquired him for Hayden Wesneski at the 2022 trade deadline. But he underwent Tommy John surgery that October, and at this point it's clear that years of health issues have sapped him of the stuff he once had.