NYY News: Soto Bowl is upon us
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Setting the Soto scene; bad baserunning a must-fix in 2025; Sabathia relishes the spooky; farewell to Bob Costas
CBS Sports | Jeff Capellini: The World Series is over, and the top priority of the Yankees is retaining superstar Juan Soto. The trouble is, every other team in baseball would want to have Soto around, and a few of them have enough money to make it happen. The Mets are certainly the single greatest challenge to the Yankees keeping the 26-year-old in the Bronx, but rumors are already swirling about the Dodgers being interested as well. Soto certainly didn't tip his hand in his post-Series press scrum, and the Yankees will have to go hard to keep the likely MVP finalist.
FanGraphs | Matt Martell: The Yankees were the worst team in baseball on the basepaths in 2024, giving up more than their share of outs in both the regular season and throughout October. It wasn't the most critical factor in the loss to the Dodgers, but as Joel Sherman also alluded (in addition to noting Dodgers scouts' breakdown of their shoddy defense), it's something that needs to be fixed ahead of 2025. As they say, you get more from not being stupid than you get from being smart — going from last to say, 15th-best on the basepaths makes you a much better team.
New York Times | Andrew Keh: CC Sabathia is a common sight at Yankee games, especially come October, but his New Jersey home is a quite uncommon sight. The Sabathia family leans into Halloween in a huge way, decking the house in a haunted fashion and certainly being the central attraction in their neighborhood for years. I bet they even give out full-sized candy bars.
The Athletic | Andrew Marchand: Bob Costas is stepping back from the mic. After more than four decades of play-by-play work across various platforms, the longtime announcer and 2018 Ford C. Frick Award winner is retiring from his role at TBS. Costas will continue to contribute to MLB Network as a studio analyst, but a chapter of baseball broadcasting is ending. His final series was the 2024 ALDS between the Yankees and Royals.
