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This story was excerpted from Bryan Hoch's Yankees Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. NEW YORK — The Yankees are banking on Paul Goldschmidt to add power to their lineup, a quality they lacked at first base for most of last season. A bonus is that the veteran also figures to lend leadership, mentoring some of the club's younger players. Now 37, Goldschmidt recalled how he was helped by those relationships early in his career. Two weeks into Goldschmidt's Major League service in August 2011, the Diamondbacks signed…

The Yankees reached deals with four of their five arbitration-eligible players ahead of a deadline Thursday to exchange figures, including newly acquired closer Devin Williams . The hurler agreed to an $8.6 million pact for the upcoming season, a source told MLB.com's Mark Feinsand. The club has not confirmed any dollar amounts.

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This story was excerpted from Bryan Hoch's Yankees Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. We're about two weeks into 2025, and also nine days past the point where Larry David said in an episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” that it's acceptable to wish people a Happy New Year. Let's not do that here, but instead take a moment to appreciate that we've now witnessed a quarter-century of Yankees baseball in the 2000s. So this is as good a time as any to take a look back with a…

NEW YORK – The closing years of the last millennium were a special time for pitchers at Yankee Stadium. On those hallowed grounds, David Wells set down 27 consecutive Minnesota Twins on a May afternoon in 1998, David Cone repeated the feat the following year against the Montreal Expos, and Dave Eiland also put the finishing touches on a perfect game against the Yankees.

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CC Sabathia remembers being awed by his first visit to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., saying he still gets goosebumps when he thinks about those hours wandering through the plaque gallery several years ago.

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The Yankees again have tapped into the international market to land a highly coveted teen out of the Dominican Republic who they believe can be an impact bat in their system in due time.

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