Top 50 New York Yankees
This might be the hardest list that we have ever done.Maybe we have said this before, but how can this not be?
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As such, how do you decide who are the top players for a team without hurting feelings?
The answer is that you can’t.
There are superstars who didn’t make this list (Roger Clemens, Mark Teixeira, Roger Peckinpaugh, Jason Giambi) for example who didn’t make it. The next fifty that we would have picked are better than over half of the top 50 of the other Major League teams. We easily understand the argument for those. We understand the backlash we will hear over the fact that Reggie Jackson barely made this list and could be only a few seasons away from dropping off of this completely.
There was nothing easy about this.
We have our shield on as you read this.
Note: Baseball lists are based on an amalgamation of tenure, traditional statistics, advanced statistics, playoff performance, and post-season accolades. This is a list up to the end of the 2024 Season.
The New York Yankees are the most successful baseball team of all-time:Period.Love them or hate them, this team has been loaded throughout the years with talent after talent and you might think that it would have been difficult to come up with a consensus number one for the Bronx Bombers, but it really wasn’t.It can be nobody other than Babe Ruth.
Considered by many baseball writers to be the finest First Baseman that ever lived, Lou Gehrig is also one of the most inspirational figures in sports history.
It says a lot when you were considered one of the most popular New York Yankees ever, and Mickey Mantle was just that. Taking over the mantle (sorry, couldn’t help the pun) as the star player for the Bronx Bombers, Mantle was a devastating switch hitter who hit for average and power and was a career Yankee.
Was Joe DiMaggio the first athlete to hook up with a major celebrity?We aren’t sure, but the pairing of DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe will go down as the most elite pairing of an athlete and celebrity of all-time.
Without question, Derek Jeter is the most important New York Yankee in the last thirty years. He is also one of the few players to retire with over 3,000 Hits for one team.
Is there any doubt that Yogi Berra was one of the most colorful characters in any sport? How many times have we heard a “Yogism” of some kind and couldn’t help but smile?
I don’t think we are going to have one person dispute us when we are saying that Mariano Rivera is the greatest Relief Pitcher of all time.The all-time leader in Saves realistically had one pitch; and that fastball was all he needed. Elite firemen shorten a game, but nobody did it longer and better than Rivera did. Nobody actually came close.
The Bronx Bombers were always known for their sluggers but amidst the Mantles and the Maris’ there was Whitey Ford, “The Chairman of the Board”.
Meet the second biggest theft from the Boston Red Sox by the New York Yankees.The ace of the Yankees staff in the 1930’s, Red Ruffing won 15 or more games 11 times, including a four year stretch where he exceeded the 20 Win mark. Ruffing would represent the Yanks in six All Star Games and would also be a key figure in helping New York win Six World Series Titles.
In the storied franchise of the New York Yankees, Ron Guidry was responsible for some of the best seasons ever for a Starting Pitcher.
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All rise! Aaron Judge is as of this writing the most exciting player on the New York Yankees, and since his rookie year, the team’s best offensive player. Judge played in 27 Games in 2016, maintaining his rookie eligibility for 2017. The First Baseman was named the Rookie of the Year, leasing the AL in Home Runs (52), Runs Scored (128), Walks (127), while winning the Silver Slugger and coming in second for the MVP. An All-Star as a rookie, Judge was also named an All-Star in 2018 (27 HR, .278 BA), and had 27 Home Runs again in only 102 Games…
Before there was New York Yankees Hall of Fame Catcher, Yogi Berra, there was New York Yankees Catcher, Bill Dickey.
The ace of the Yankees staff that would win four World Series Championships in five seasons Andy Pettitte did not just help New York win those titles, he was instrumental in those championships. Pettitte holds the record of the most-post season wins (19) and 18 of those were as a Yankee.
Don Mattingly can make a claim as the best player for the Yankees in the 1980’s. He can also make a claim as the best hitter in the American League over the same timeframe. The First Baseman would break out in 1984 where he would go to his first of his six straight All-Star Games where he was the Yankees “Hit Man”.
Oh boy…Let’s get all of the negative stuff out of the way.
One of the most popular Yankees of the last thirty years, Bernie Williams had his peak seasons in the late ’90s, which coincided with the best run of the Bronx Bombers over the last fifty years. Williams would be named an All-Star five years in a row from 1997 to 2001 and over his career he brought a nice balance of power and speed to the Yankees lineup.
Along with Red Ruffing, the eccentric Lefty Gomez anchored a pitching staff that dominated the 1930’s. Before the days of Yogi Berra, it was the southpaw that was the known for witty banter and unique sense of humor.
A member of the back-to-back Yankees World Series Champions in 1977 and 1978, Willie Randolph could be one of the most underrated baseball players ever.
One of the most recognized Catchers in the 1970’s, Thurman Munson was called by many of his teammates as the heart and soul of the New York Yankees. This is very high praise considering how good the team they were in the last half of the 1970’s.