NY Post | Greg Joyce: The Yankees rolled over the Giants on Wednesday, but if you were to guess how they did it, you’d be hard-pressed to find a lot of people who would’ve had them getting 10 hits with nine of them being singles, not one home run slugged, and absolutely nothing from Aaron Judge. That’s the versatility of one of the deepest lineups in baseball though, and they put up the most runs in 2025 for a reason. If they want to repeat the process, there’ll be more nights than you’d expect where the stars take a backseat in a lineup that can do damage at any point, and Aaron Boone is enjoying the process being showcased right away — as the Yankee skipper put it, “I think we can beat you a lot of different ways.”
NY Daily News | Gary Phillips ($): One of the topics on hand for Opening Day was the fact that it was exclusively broadcast on Netflix, adding yet another streaming provider into the mix of platforms that have MLB games in their possession. The full gambit of Yankees games this year will require access to as many as five subscriptions, a wild number to think about when the organization owns their own broadcast media company. Gone are the days of YES carrying all but the occasional national media weekend game though, and the players can relate to fans’ struggles in finding all of the content. Players like Tim Hill and Ryan McMahon expressed their frustration for fans having to juggle all of these streaming costs, with McMahon relaying how he struggled to find where he could watch the WBC games as they were happening. There’s no easy solution in sight as MLB’s wonky media rights deals will surely be a topic of discussion in the upcoming CBA talks, but it’s hard to imagine putting the genie back in the lamp after the commissioner rubbed it.
FanGraphs: Wild predictions are always fun to shoot off right before the start of the season, and the FanGraphs staff took their shot at making some fun ones. Of relevance to New York, Jake Mailhot made the bold claim that four AL East teams will make the playoffs but all of them will fail to make it past the ALDS — a prediction that, logistically, sounds impossible so long as the division winner ends up with one of the top two seeds and a longshot even if all four play in the Wild Card Round but hey, who knows. Not to be outdone, Matt Martell took the stance that neither Aaron Judge or Shohei Ohtani will repeat as MVPs this year, which would be a major upset for sure. Perhaps the boldest yet comes from Paul Sporer, who is throwing down a Ryan McMahon 30-homer season prediction — from your lips to God’s ears, friend.
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