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"Each day is a journey, but I'm really embracing it this year," Josiah Gray said.(Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)MIAMI - Josiah Gray entered this season with a handful of goals.One was to pitch deeper into games.Last season, he only got into the seventh inning twice in 28 tries.That's already going well.

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Walker Buehler is targeting a Sept. 1 return to the Dodgers rotation from his second Tommy John surgery, a timeline that manager Dave Roberts termed "aggressive" but not out of the question."It's hard to bet against this guy, but Sept. 1 is not what I was hearing," Roberts said before Tuesday night's game against the Minnesota Twins.

If you were worried about Dansby Swanson's early spring performance, it's certainly a good thing that he's ending the Spring Training schedule on a high note.Swanson homered for the second straight game.Unfortunately, a five-run White Sox ninth made the result a 6-6 tie between the Cubs and White Sox.

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across Major League Baseball.Each week, we send out questions to the most plugged-in New York Yankees fans, and fans across the country.Sign up here to join Reacts.Today is the day!The first spring training contest is here, kickstarting the 2023 season and the Yankees' chase for a 28th World Series championship.

The Orioles have been linked to a number of free agents this winter, but so far their sole big league addition has been Kyle Gibson on a one-year, $10MM deal.It seems likely there will be more moves to come for Baltimore as they look to supplement a young core that is starting to look like a contender, but  Dan Connolly of The Athletic suggests it's unlikely they'll be handing out any long-term deals this winter.

The Yankees ' season may not have ended the way they wanted to, but that doesn't mean every member of the team will be going home sans hardware this winter.Rawlings announced on Tuesday afternoon that a pair of Yankees earned Gold Gloves in 2022, with catcher Jose Trevino receiving the award for his prowess behind the plate and utilityman DJ LeMahieu for his elite performance at multiple positions.

Yesterday, we saw a huge move, with a hard-throwing right-hander leaving New York to head out west.That's right, Yankees reliever Miguel Castro, after throwing 29 innings with the Yankees in 2022, signed with the Diamondbacks on a one-year deal.Also, Jacob deGrom signed with the Rangers.It took five years and $185 million, and it may come as an even bigger shock than Texas' mega deals with Corey Seager and Marcus Semien from last offseason.

Aside from shortstop, the most pressing need the Dodgers have heading into the offseason is the starting rotation.Tyler Anderson, Andrew Heaney and Clayton Kershaw are all free agents.Walker Buehler is going to miss the 2023 season due to his second surgery.Using the 40-man depth chart, this is the Dodgers' projected rotation if the season started today and no moves were made:
That doesn't include prospects like Bobby Miller and Gavin Stone, but they shouldn't (and won't be) counted on for substanital work in 2023.

After a fairly busy weekend on the MLB hot stove, here's three things we'll be keeping an eye on around baseball throughout the day today.1.Where can teams who missed out on Dansby Swanson turn?Swanson's deal with the Cubs puts all four of this offseason's star shortstops on a new team.While each of the clubs who lost a shortstop has an internal alternative, all four would be bettered by an external addition.

The stove is so hot that we couldn't even get this post out this morning!Judge, Quintana, Jansen, Contreras!Here's what else we're looking at:
1.How Will The Giants React To Missing Out On Judge?Perhaps the biggest news of the offseason came in this morning, as reigning AL MVP Aaron Judge re-signed with the Yankees on a monster contract.

The Orioles are expected to be busy this winter, as they look to add to a young roster that is showing signs of life after a lengthy rebuild.Left-handed hitting and pitching is top of the list for Baltimore, and Roch Kubatko of MASN notes that the Orioles want "multiple veteran starting pitchers".

The Mets have already been linked to several available starters early in the offseason, and The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal reports that Jameson Taillon is one of the names the club has been in touch with during its ongoing pitching search.Taillon (who just turned 31 on November 18) is a free agent for the first time in his career, and he ranks 14th on MLBTR's list of the winter's top 50 free agents.

The Yankees have done a good job this offseason at checking off important items on their to-do list.They brought back Anthony Rizzo to fortify first base, and more importantly, they also convinced MVP Aaron Judge to return as well, thanks to a big nine-year contract.They took steps to improve their already-accomplished pitching staff as well, replacing Jameson Taillon with Carlos Rodón just last night, and to a less-important extent, swapping in old friend Tommy Kahnle for the likes of Aroldis Chapman, Miguel Castro, and Zack Britton in the bullpen.

The Dodgers signed right-handed pitcher Noah Syndergaard to a one-year, $13 million contract on Wednesday, which seemed a little light by this offseason's standards.Sean Manaea got two years, and Jameson Taillon and Taijuan Walker got four years each.Seeing Syndergaard sign a one-year deal was a little surprising.

Not too long ago, it was easy to imagine Dodgers outfielder/first baseman Cody Bellinger commanding a Judgian contract when he hit baseball's free agent market.As a lanky, easygoing kid from Arizona, Bellinger entered the L.A. system as a fourth-round teen in 2013 and started showing off prodigious power pretty much as soon as he got his feet wet.

The Los Angeles Dodgers identified the starting rotation as an area of need this offseason, with Clayton Kershaw, Tyler Anderson and Andrew Heaney all reaching free agency.The club wasted no time by re-signing Kershaw to a one-year contract, which was made official Monday morning after a delay in completing the required physical.

The Los Angeles Dodgers entered the offseason with three left-handed starters in Clayton Kershaw, Tyler Anderson and Andrew Heaney reaching the free agency, which has made adding to their rotation a priority.They already reportedly agreed to a deal with Kershaw and extended Anderson the $19.65 million qualifying offer hoping he would return to solidify their rotation.

Brian Cashman finally crossed the finish line with the best pitcher remaining on the market.Carlos Rodón is officially a part of the New York Yankees rotation, and the impact of adding a left-handed starter with as much strikeout power as he has cannot be understated.If you are unfamiliar with Rodón or the kind of season he had last season, well, you're in for a treat.

With Xander Bogaerts now committed to the San Diego Padres, the top free agent coming out of Boston is Nathan Eovaldi.Eovaldi, on the open market for the first time since 2017, figures to be a point of emphasis for pitching-needy teams at this stage in the Major League Baseball offseason.The top starters, aside from Carlos Rodón, have signed new contracts and Eovaldi is in the next tier of pitchers who can be real difference-makers at a moderate price.

Need more evidence the Boston Red Sox could cast a wide net this Major League Baseball offseason?Look no further than Jim Bowden's rankings of the top 25 free agents, published Friday on The Athletic.The former MLB general manager included the Red Sox among his "best fits" for 13 (!) players set to hit the open market - a list that features seven pitchers, four shortstops, a catcher and an outfielder, who sat out the entire 2022 season.

The Yankees rotation has carried a rather underwhelming lineup the last couple of seasons, balancing the flashes of sky-high ceiling Gerrit Cole and Nestor Cortes with depth performances from guys like Jameson Taillon.The always-alluring potential of Luis Severino adds to the upside of the rotation, but with Taillon hitting free agency and question marks about full-season use of depth guys, the Yankees could stand to add one more arm.

As we continue to recap the 2022 Yankees season, it's time to take a look at the pitching and remember some of the best performance from Yankees' starters from this season.To do that, we're going to look at the best Game Scores from 2022.If you're unaware, Game Score is a fairly simple metric that tries to measure how good a starting pitcher was that day.

The Yankees made the move they needed to make and secured the services of Aaron Judge for the next nine years.Things were tough for a while as it seemed that The Giants might swoop in and bring the Bay Area native back and the Padres made things super interesting by offering him $400 million, but ultimately, Hal Steinbrenner made a long distance call from Italy and said all the right things to convince Judge to stay in pinstripes.

Ah, December.The temperatures are dropping, students are fretting over exams, and Mariah Carey blasts fifty times a day through every store in the mall while you get an early jump on your holiday shopping.You know what that means?That's right, it's time for our monthly ritual here at Pinstripe Alley, where we ask you, our dear readers, to tell us your thoughts on Yankees "Not technically under contract but still acting as general manager anyway" Brian Cashman.

With the 2022 season in the books, the Yankees need to leave no stone unturned in their efforts to improve the club, especially after Houston emphatically displayed its superiority over New York in the ALCS.With Jameson Taillon a free agent, an innings limit likely looming for Luis Severino in 2023, and Frankie Montas ineffective and then hurt after coming to the Bronx, shopping for starting pitching on the trade market seems a logical way to try and bolster the Yankees rotation.

I've spent some time in recent articles looking through different lenses at the various tightropes walked by the Yankees in 2022.There are quite a few to choose from: 16 walk-off wins (and a few more losses) make for a lot of content about WPA in the like.Lots of dramatic endings and big swings in odds, momentum, and win probability naturally stem from plenty of very tense moments, and according to both FanGraphs and Baseball Reference, no team played out their season with a higher average Leverage Index than the Yankees.

Since the start of the pandemic, we have kept you posted on what the Yankees have been up to on social media.The MLB season has come to an end, but we'll continue to see action from our favorite players and Yankee figures.Here's your weekly update on what your favorite Yankees have been doing on social media!

While we await the hot stove really kicking off, some interesting news came from Houston, with the Astros firing their lead exec James Click, as well as his assistant GM.It's a curious situation, with the most successful team in the American League over the last two years turning over its front office.

MLB.com | Bryan Hoch: The Yankees' authorities, namely general manager Brian Cashman and skipper Aaron Boone, held their end-of-the-season conference with one main takeaway: the need to get back to the World Series."Back to the drawing board," Cashman said."Even though we have fallen short against Houston, it's obviously any of the [teams] that are standing in our way between us and winning a World Series.

Sports Illustrated | Matthew Postins: Aaron Judge's free agency promises to be the most closely followed storyline of the upcoming offseason, and it appears another team has jumped into the sweepstakes.Citing from a recent Athletic article, Postins relays that the Rangers are one of six teams expected to pursue Judge over the winter.

MLB.com | Paul Casella: The winners of the 2022 Fielding Bible Awards, one of the two major awards (alongside the Gold Glove) given in honor of defensive prowess, were announced yesterday afternoon, and one Yankee received recognition.Thanks to his league-leading 21 Defensive Runs Saved behind the plate and his elite pitch framing skills - framing metrics measured him as twice as valuable as any other catcher in the league - Yankee backstop Jose Trevino earned his first career Fielding Bible.

The 2022 season might have ended in excruciatingly disappointing fashion for the Yankees, but that doesn't mean fans didn't get more than their fair share of highs along the way, even if the way the second half played out rendered the team's 99 wins perhaps slightly less meaningful than the number makes one think.

The Yankees absolutely need Sevy to be healthy for the playoffs, so while in a perfect world, it would have been fun to see Severino go for the Yankees' first no-hitter since Corey Kluber last year (in this very same ballpark), it just wasn't worth the risk - no matter how minor.The former Baby Bomber was immediately erased though, as Sevy got Bubba Thompson to bounce into a double play.Over 35,000 fans packed into Globe Life Field in Texas on Monday night hoping to see Aaron Judge hit No. 62, setting a new American League record.