{"id":438305,"date":"2026-01-30T06:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/438305\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T06:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:01:08","slug":"yankees-news-the-zips-projections-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/438305\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees news: The ZiPS Projections are in"},"content":{"rendered":"

FanGraphs | Dan Szymborski<\/a>: All winter, Dan Szymborski has been running the ZiPS projections for each team for the 2026 season. Now, with all 30 teams done, he ran one million simulations of the 2026 season. Unsurprisingly, the American League East projects to be a dogfight, with four of the division\u2019s five teams having at least a forty percent chance of making the postseason. Among the top four teams, the Yankees don\u2019t have the brightest performance in the model, with an average win total of just 87 games.<\/p>\n

Newsday | Laura Albanese<\/a>: One of the big reasons that the Yankees have a slightly lower performance by the ZiPS model is the fact that the team\u2019s core is aging. Over the last few years, the organization has basically \u201crun it back\u201d year in year out, leaning on Aaron Judge offensively and trying to build a strong pitching staff behind 2023 Cy Young winner Gerrit Cole. Because of this, though, the Yankees\u2019 core has begun to get old, as Judge, Cole, Giancarlo Stanton, Max Fried, and Carlos Rod\u00f3n are all on the wrong side of 30. While that does not mean they will perform poorly \u2014 the team did win 94 games in each of the last two seasons, and 92 or more in six of the last seven full seasons \u2014 it does increase the margin of error, as Father Time is mostly undefeated.<\/p>\n

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MLB.com<\/a>: In a low-level move, the Yankees sent lefty reliever Jayvien Sandridge to the Los Angeles Angels yesterday in exchange for cash considerations. The 26-year-old Sandbridge made one appearance with the Yankees last season \u2014 his Major League debut \u2014 while serving primarily as bullpen depth in Triple-A.<\/p>\n

NJ.com<\/a>: Retired Yankees first baseman Anthony Rizzo appears to be launching a sports media career this season, as reports indicate that he is set to join NBC Sports as they take over the coverage of Sunday Night Baseball this season. He will join Bob Costas and Clayton Kershaw as studio analysts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FanGraphs | Dan Szymborski: All winter, Dan Szymborski has been running the ZiPS projections for each team for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4260,16254,76817,9307,206937,9306,2934,4699,205325,206938,2322,6134,363,206936,369,99],"class_list":["post-438305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-judge","tag-anthony-rizzo","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-clayton-kershaw","tag-dan-szymborski","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-getty-images","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-jayvien-sandridge","tag-laura-albanese","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-max-fried","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-hilton-midtown","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}