2025 New York Yankees season
| 2025 New York Yankees | |
|---|---|
| American League Wild Card winners | |
| League | American League |
| Division | East |
| Ballpark | Yankee Stadium |
| City | New York |
| Record | 94–68 (.580) |
| Divisional place | 2nd |
| Owners | Yankee Global Enterprises |
| President | Randy Levine |
| General managers | Brian Cashman |
| Managers | Aaron Boone |
| Television | YES Network Amazon Prime Video (Michael Kay, Ryan Ruocco, John Flaherty, Paul O'Neill, Joe Girardi, David Cone, Jeff Nelson, Meredith Marakovits, Jack Curry, Justin Shackil, Bob Lorenz, Nancy Newman, Todd Frazier, Nick Swisher) |
| Radio | WFAN SportsRadio 66 AM / 101.9 FM New York Yankees Radio Network (Dave Sims, Emmanuel Berbari, Suzyn Waldman) WADO 1280 AM TUDN Radio Cadena Radio Yankees (Francisco Rivera, Rickie Ricardo) |
The 2025 New York Yankees season was the 123rd season for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. They entered the season as the defending American League champions, the American League East champions, and runners-up of the 2024 World Series.
This season was the first full season on Yankees' radio station WFAN, and on the Yankees Radio Network in general for Dave Sims, who was appointed in the offseason to replace the team's longtime radio voice John Sterling, who was in the role for many years.
On February 21, 2025, managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner announced that the organization has amended its long-standing facial grooming policy, which his late father George had instilled shortly after purchasing the team in 1973 after observing players with shaggy hair, mutton chops and unkempt mustaches. The new policy states that Yankees players, coaches, and other uniformed personnel are now permitted to have "well-groomed beards" moving forward. However, there are "parameters" to maintain a look that is "clean and disciplined". General Manager Brian Cashman, along with Steinbrenner agree that one driving factor of this major change in franchise history is purely "hypothetical in nature" in fear they could miss out on a future free agent because of the team's outdated policy.
On March 29, the Yankees set a franchise record for most home runs in a game, at nine. They later tied the record on August 19 and the following day tied the major league record for most homers in a two-game series with 14.
While the Yankees had a 7-game lead atop the AL East on May 28, the team then stumbled in June and July, allowing the Blue Jays to win the division via head-to-head tiebreaker. However, the Yankees made it to the playoffs for the 8th time in the past 9 seasons (2017–2022, 2024–2025) on September 23. They finished with a 94–68 record, the same record as in the 2024 season. As the team with the best record among Wild Card teams in the American League, they clinched the fourth seed in the playoffs and faced the Boston Red Sox in the Wild Card Series, their sixth postseason meeting in the history of the Yankees–Red Sox rivalry. The Yankees defeated the Red Sox in the Wild Card Series in three games to advance to the Division Series for the second consecutive time to face the top-seeded and rival Toronto Blue Jays, losing in four games.
The New York Yankees drew an average home attendance of 42,408, the 3rd-highest of all baseball teams in the world.