Fried, Rodón Lead Yankees into Postseason

As the 2025 regular season winds down, the New York Yankees have secured a postseason berth and remain locked in an AL East race with the Toronto Blue Jays. The rotation has been powered by left-handers Max Fried (19 wins, sub-3.00 ERA) and Carlos Rodón (18 wins), who combined for 37 victories and have been central to New York’s surge. Rodón closed the regular season with a 3.09 ERA, surpassed 200 strikeouts while allowing fewer than 140 hits — the first Yankee to do so — and posted career highs in starts, innings and wins while finishing with the lowest opponent batting average among qualified starters. Fried, in his first season with the club after signing an eight-year deal, was an ace-level presence and has emphasized the team's unfinished goals. New York is also fine-tuning its roster for the postseason, experimenting with Fried and Ben Rice as a battery and using Rice’s positional flexibility to create lineup options against lefties.