2022 New York Yankees season

The 2022 New York Yankees season was the 120th season for the New York Yankees franchise in Major League Baseball.

On December 2, 2021, Commissioner of Baseball Rob Manfred announced a lockout of players, following expiration of the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the league and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA). On March 10, 2022, MLB and the MLBPA agreed to a new CBA, ending the lockout. Although MLB had previously announced that several series would be cancelled due to the lockout, the CBA provided for a 162-game season, with originally canceled games to be made up via doubleheaders. Opening Day was at the time scheduled for April 7, but was postponed due to inclement weather.

Local television broadcast of Yankee games was split between the YES Network (which this season marked its 20th foundation anniversary) and Amazon Prime Video, leaving the Yankees without a local over-the-air broadcaster for the first season since 1946, after which they partnered with WABD-TV (now WNYW Fox 5). Michael Kay celebrated his 30th season calling Yankees games, having joined the broadcast team in 1992.

The Yankees were 64–28 in the first part of the season prior to the All-Star break, then went 35–35 in the second, failing to win 100 games despite being on track to do so in June. They nonetheless clinched their 30th straight season with a winning record with a win against the Twins on September 7.

The Yankees clinched a postseason spot on September 22 with a walk-off 5–4 win against the Red Sox. They won the American League East, a first-round bye, and defeated the Cleveland Guardians in the Division Series in five games. However, they fell to the eventual World Series champion Houston Astros in the Championship Series in a four-game sweep, the first sweep in a best-of-seven series since the 2012 ALCS (where the Yankees were swept by the Detroit Tigers).

On October 4, Aaron Judge hit his 62nd home run, breaking the American League single-season home run record set in 1961 by Roger Maris. That same night, Gerrit Cole recorded his 249th strikeout, breaking the Yankees single-season strikeout record set in 1978 by Ron Guidry. Additionally, Cole became the first and only right-handed pitcher in Yankees history to lead all of MLB in strikeouts in a single season and the first Yankee to lead the American League in strikeouts since Al Downing in 1964. This was the first season in Yankees history where the team carried both the MLB home run and strikeout leaders in the same season.

From May 24 to June 23, the Yankees won 15 straight games at home, a feat last accomplished by the team in 1961. On June 25, the Yankees lost a combined no-hitter to the Houston Astros, the first time the Yankees were no-hit since the Astros did so in the old Yankee Stadium on June 11, 2003.

On August 21, the Yankees celebrated "Paul O'Neill Day," retiring his No. 21 and placing his plaque in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium. O'Neill became the 23rd Yankee in franchise history to be so honored.

The Yankees also won the Rawlings Gold Glove Team Award, becoming the third team to do so (after the Cleveland Indians in 2020 and the Houston Astros in 2021) since the award's introduction in 2020. Two Yankees were also awarded Gold Gloves: utility man DJ LeMahieu, and catcher Jose Trevino, who won the Platinum Glove Award.