{"id":342425,"date":"2025-10-30T05:31:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/342425\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T05:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:31:17","slug":"yankees-news-big-shakeup-at-the-yes-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/342425\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees news: Big shakeup at the YES Network"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Athletic | Andrew Marchand<\/a>: ($) In case you missed it, the YES Network made some major changes to its announcer lineup for 2026. The big headline is the exit of John Flaherty, who will not return after a 20-year run with YES as an announcer and analyst. Part-time analysts Jeff Nelson and Dave Valle also won\u2019t return. The Yankees appear to be trimming down their broadcast team, in an effort to bring more consistency to the booth and to highlight their top analyst talents, who they view as David Cone, Paul O\u2019Neill, and Joe Girardi. Matt also wrote about the change for us, so check his article out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New York Daily News | Gary Phillips<\/a>: After an up-and-down 2025 season, it\u2019s anyone\u2019s guess what\u2019s next for Luke Weaver. The right-hander expressed interest in staying with New York before the season ended, but then proceeded to have a disastrous showing in the Yankees\u2019 abbreviated playoff run. Weaver says that he\u2019s enjoyed his time in the Bronx and that he hopes there are still \u201cgood discussions to be had\u201d with the Yankees, but both he and the team\u2019s respective situations seem up in the air. The Yankees could go any number of directions to fix a bullpen that struggled last year, while Weaver himself has noted that he\u2019d be open to try starting again if a team gave him the opportunity. As an aside, he\u2019ll get the Yankees Roster Report Card treatment from us today.<\/p>\n

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MLB.com | Matthew Leach<\/a>: The Twins have hired Derek Shelton to be their next manager, replacing Rocco Baldelli. Shelton was the manager of the Pirates, for whom he went 306-440 from 2020-25 before being fired in May. Minnesota passed over Yankees hitting coach James Rowson, who had been among four finalists for the job, with Rowson now likely to return to his post with New York \u2014 just like third-base coach Luis Rojas, who the Orioles recently declined in favor of Craig Albernaz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Athletic | Chris Kirschner<\/a>: ($) The biggest question around the Yankees\u2019 offseason pertains to what they\u2019ll do with their outfield, and Kirschner makes the case that they shouldn\u2019t beat around the bush, arguing they should make Kyle Tucker their number-one target. While a reunion with Cody Bellinger seems more likely at least at the outset, the case for Tucker is pretty simple: he\u2019s just better. Though Bellinger has more defensive versatility, Tucker is a flat-out great hitter, his 143 wRC+ the last five seasons the seventh-best in baseball<\/a>. A quick look at where Tucker lands on that five-year leaderboard provides a good lesson. He\u2019s nestled right between Bryce Harper and Corey Seager, a couple of bats the Yankees arguably should\u2019ve made much stronger pushes to sign when they hit free agency. Will they make Tucker a priority this time around?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletic | Andrew Marchand: ($) In case you missed it, the YES Network made some major changes…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":342426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[24336,10624,3382,168732,80474,136014,5605,5919,168731,3663,1266,168730,62,67,132,68,2386,168729],"class_list":{"0":"post-342425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-bryce-harper","9":"tag-cody-bellinger","10":"tag-corey-seager","11":"tag-dave-valle","12":"tag-gary-phillips","13":"tag-john-flaherty","14":"tag-kyle-tucker","15":"tag-luke-weaver","16":"tag-matthew-leach","17":"tag-minnesota","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-paul-oneill","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-yankees","25":"tag-yes-network"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115461483688999045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}