We\u2019re nearly ready to close out January, which means we\u2019ve almost run out the clock on the last month without any professional Major League baseball being played. By the end of February, spring training games will be in full swing, and not long after that, we\u2019ll have genuine, high-stakes international baseball in the form of the WBC. It\u2019s close enough to be mouth-watering, but for just a little while longer, we\u2019ll have to wait out the cold. On the site today, Estev\u00e3o analyzes the free-agent deal the Yankees once gave Mariano Rivera as part of our Free Agent series, while Sam celebrates an obscure player, Hip\u00f3lito Pe\u00f1a,\u00a0for our Yankees Birthday series. Also, with the Yankees\u2019 starting pitching depth still in question to start the season, Andr\u00e9s ponders whether they should consider someone like veteran Jos\u00e9 Quintana.<\/p>\n
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1. If you had to pick now, who would you choose to hit the second-most homers on the Yankees in 2026?<\/p>\n
2. Now that most of the major free agents have signed, what would you say has been the most surprising signing of the offseason?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re nearly ready to close out January, which means we\u2019ve almost run out the clock on the last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[27449,22271,44244,363,2005,369,99,364,4710,37565],"class_list":["post-438821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ben-rice","tag-jose-quintana","tag-mariano-rivera","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-trent-grisham","tag-yankee-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438821","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=438821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}