Dodgers can't contain Berra, fall 11-5

Yogi Berra was on his game, knocking in 3 runs in New York's 11-5 victory over the Dodgers. Berra also had 3 hits in the game. Lance Johnson had a big game as well, knocking in 3 runs for New York while recording 3 hits. | Box

Rivers sparks 3-2 win for Rangers

Mickey Rivers's hot bat helped the Rangers to a 3-2 win over the Blue Jays. Rivers collected 5 hits in the game. | Box

Sexson sparks 6-3 win for Brewers

Richie Sexson's hot bat helped the Brewers to a 6-3 win over the Mariners. Sexson collected 4 hits in the game. | Box

Maas shines, Twins still lose to Detroit

Kevin Maas collected 4 hits last night, but it wasn't enough for the Twins. The Tigers won the contest, 7-2. | Box

Snow sparks 4-3 win for Giants

J.T. Snow's hot bat helped the Giants to a 4-3 win over the Phillies. Snow collected 4 hits in the game. | Box

Lead Story - 10/7/2026

Pre-Season Schedule - Season 30

Here is the tentative order of off-season events.

1. Rule 13 Draft Participants are named (8 Playoff Teams & Bottom 8 plus ties) - done
2. Playoff Teams will name their 5 protected players for the Rule 13 Draft - deadline Wednesday, October 7th at 9pm central time - done

Eight Playoff Teams (with their protected lists)
San Diego Padres - Dave Winfield, Luke Voit, Nestor Cortes Jr., Bob Tewksbury, Buddy Carlyle
Pittsburgh Pirates - Dennis Santana, J.A. Happ, Andrew McCutchen, John Vander Wal, Garrett Jones
Montreal Expos - John Candelaria, Juan Soto, Javier Vasquez, Tim Raines, Esteban Loaiza
Houston Astros - Jose Vizcaino, Cameron Maybin, Marwin Gonzales, Don Nottebart, Rob Murphy
Oakland A’s - Rickey Henderson, Jason Giambi, Andrew Bailey, Luis Severino, Hideki Matsui
Texas Rangers - Ivan Rodriguez, Joey Gallo, Kevin Brown, Nathan Eovaldi, Goose Gossage
Boston Red Sox - Luis Tiant, Wade Boggs, Kevin Youkilis, Chris Hammond, John Wyatt

8 Teams picking in the Rule 13 Draft, in order of picking (remember no playoff team can lose more than 2 players in the Draft). There is a 24 hour time limit on Rule 13 picks, which does not mean that a team loses their chance to pick, it just means the next team in line is also free to make their pick.
1. Chicago White Sox - Matt Thornton (from Montreal)
2. Detroit Tigers - missed deadline, draft is over, no pick this year
3. San Francisco Giants - Mark Melancon (from Pittsburgh)
4. Philadelphia Phillies - Mike Easley (from Pittsburgh) - Pirates have had 2 taken and are now off limits
5. Minnesota Twins - Jeff Reardon (from Montreal) - Expos have had 2 taken and are now off limits
6. Milwaukee Brewers - Ron Villone (from Houston)
7. New York Mets - Dock Ellis (from Texas)
8. Columbus Clippers - Josh Outman (from Oakland)

3. Rule 13 Draft (team with worst regular season Win % chooses first, then 2nd worst team, etc.) Begins following the naming of the protected players. - done
4. Player Additions/Relocations (players who are moving to new franchises due to AB/IP totals will move, and new players will be added to their respective teams) - done
5. Lucky Loser teams will remove no-drop tags on a player (if applicable) - in progress
6. Special Draft (Yankees and Bombers draft new RL Yankee-only rookies - worst Win% gets first pick in each round)(this draft only happens if a real-life MLB season has just finished) - Bombers took Spencer Jones, Yankees got George Lombard Jr.
7. Historic Imports may be dropped / signed from the unused Historic Imports list (only 5 players on that list)
8. Rosters to 28. ALL TEAMS must trim their rosters to 28 players - (deadline is Thursday, Oct. 22nd-9pm central) - in progress
9. Slow Draft - 2 Round Draft for all 28 Teams in order of worst to first (regular-season winning pct.). Worst team picks 1st in both rounds - 6 hr time limit for each pick in Round 1 (3 hrs in Round 2). Pre-rank some players!!)
If you haven't got any players pre-ranked when your time-limit is up, you'll lose your turn. Make sure you only pre-rank players who actually played for your team in real life (except for the Yankees and Bombers who can pick anyone)
DRAFT START DATE - Friday, October 23rd at 9am central (6 hr limit for 1st round picks/3 hr limit for 2nd round picks will be interrupted by night-time hours - overnight grace period will be 10pm to 8am Central time - so whoever is on the clock through the overnight period will have their full amount of time in 'waking' hours - RANK SOME "ELIGIBLE" PLAYERS or you may miss out!

Draft Order:
1. Chicago White Sox
2. Detroit Tigers
3. San Francisco Giants
4. Philadelphia Phillies
5. Minnesota Twins
6. Milwaukee Brewers
7. New York Mets
8. Columbus Clippers
9. Bronx Bombers
10. Cleveland Indians
11. Los Angeles Dodgers
12. Toronto Blue Jays
13. Cincinnati Reds
14. St. Louis Cardinals
15. Kansas City Royals
16. Chicago Cubs
17. Seattle Mariners
18. Atlanta Braves
19. California Angels
20. Baltimore Orioles
21. Texas Rangers
22. Montreal Expos
23. Pittsburgh Pirates
24. Houston Astros
25. Boston Red Sox
26. New York Yankees
27. San Diego Padres
28. Oakland A's

10. Free Agency Opens - Sunday, Nov. 1st at 7pm central - All teams may drop and sign players (no-drop rule and franchise rule still in effect)
11. Ability to change a players' season will be turned off at first pitch of Opening Day
12. Opening Day - Tuesday, Nov. 3rd at 9am central (make sure you have your lineups and rotation set)

9/30/2026

Season 30 Player Changes/New Players

Here's the list of new players who will be joining the AYL for Season 30. Remember players need at least 1 season of a minimum of 70 ABs or 30 IPs to be eligible for the AYL.
Spencer Jones (Bombers or Yankees)
Luis Garcia Jr. (Expos)
George Lombard Jr. (Bombers or Yankees)
Heliot Ramos (Giants)
Ali Sanchez (Clippers)
Randal Grichuk (Blue Jays)
John Schreiber (Royals)
Michael Fulmer (Tigers)
Justin Topa (Twins)
Clayton Beeter (Expos)
Brent Headrick (Twins)

Players Changing Teams for Season 30 due to either AB/IP totals in real life or Bomber/Yankee players joining new teams:
Oswaldo Cabrera goes from Yankees to Reds
Wandy Peralta goes from Reds to Padres
Andrew Benintendi goes from Red Sox to White Sox
Gary Sanchez goes from Twins to Brewers

Future Changes (If these guys reach the required ABs/IPs with their current club they'll move after the AYL Season we're in)
Jordan Montgomery will go from the Cards to the Clippers if he reaches 185 IPs with Arizona
Luke Voit will go from the Padres to the Brewers if he reaches 299 ABs with Milwaukee
Dennis Santana will go from the Rangers to the Pirates if he reaches 99 IPs with Pittsburgh
Lucas Luetge will go from the Mariners to the Red Sox if he reaches 90 IPs with Boston
Gio Urshela will go from the Twins to the A's if he reaches 502 ABs with the Athletics
Chasen Shreve will go from the Mets to the Rangers if he reaches 57 IP with Texas

These additions will also mean that some teams will need to drop another player into Free Agency in the offseason, so that should increase the talent level a bit in next season's draft. Change is good in the AYL. Stay tuned for more as the real-life Yankees continue to make moves. They always do.

Others who haven't yet reached the needed ABs/IPs in a season to qualify:
Miguel Yajure
Chris Gittens
Nick Burdi

If they reach the 70 AB/30 IP plateau in a future season, they'll be added to the league, but not until that real life season has ended and we have access to their stats for that year.

7/28/2026

ALL-STAR TEAMS for Season 29

A.L. ALL-STAR TEAM

C Jorge Posada (Yankees)
C Elston Howard (Red Sox)
1B John Olerud (Blue Jays)
1B Nick Johnson (Orioles)
2B Robinson Cano (Mariners)
2B Chuck Knoblauch (Twins)
3B Wade Boggs (Red Sox)
3B Josh Donaldson (Blue Jays)
SS Alex Rodriguez (Mariners)
SS Brian Roberts (Orioles)
OF Babe Ruth (Brewers)
OF Rickey Henderson (A's)
OF Aaron Judge (Yankees)
OF Bernie Williams (Yankees)
OF Curtis Granderson (Brewers)
OF Carlos Beltran (Royals)
OF Hideki Matsui (A's)
DH Austin Slater (Orioles)
SP Ron Guidry (Yankees)
SP Red Ruffing (A's)
SP Russ Ford (Royals)
SP Randy Johnson (Mariners)
SP Luis Severino (A's)
RP Mariano Rivera (Yankees)
RP Octavio Dotel (Royals)
RP Devin Williams (Brewers)
RP Ryan Dull (A's)
RP Rich Gossage (Rangers)
RP Ron Klimkowski (Yankees)

N.L. ALL-STAR TEAM

C Bill Dickey (Reds)
C Brian McCann (Braves)
1B Lou Gehrig (Padres)
1B Craig Wilson (Braves)
2B Joe Gordon (Expos)
2B DJ Lemahieu (Clippers)
3B Frank Baker (Cubs)
3B Chase Headley (Padres)
SS Derek Jeter (Bombers)
SS Troy Tulowitzki (Clippers)
OF Mickey Mantle (Bombers)
OF Bob Cerv (Astros)
OF Tim Raines (Expos)
OF Andrew McCutchen (Pirates)
OF David Justice (Braves)
OF Juan Soto (Expos)
DH Matt Carpenter (Cardinals)
DH Lance Berkman (Astros)
DH Bobby Murcer (Cubs)
SP Bob Tewksbury (Padres)
SP Nestor Cortes Jr. (Padres)
SP AJ Burnett (Phillies)
SP Greg Harris (Reds)
SP Whitey Ford (Bombers)
RP Kirby Yates (Padres)
RP John Wetteland (Expos)
RP Dooley Womack (Astros)
RP Raul Valdes (Cardinals)
RP Matt Thornton (Expos)

5/5/2026

Season 28 Major Award Winners

Here are the final results of the voting for our 4 major Awards for Season 28:
AL MVP:
Babe Ruth - 7 votes (Jason Giambi-1)

AL Cy Young:
Derek Lowe - 4 votes (Fred Beene-2, Luis Tiant-2)

NL MVP:
Mickey Mantle - 6 votes (Matt Carpenter-2)

NL Cy Young:
Andy Messersmith/Rich Hill - 4 votes each

Thanks to those who voted!

4/6/2026

Highlights from ASG28 in Columbus, Ohio

** SPOILER ALERT ** If you'd like to watch the replay of the game first - DO NOT READ THIS YET **
(You can see the box score and watch the game in its entirety by clicking on the links in the "Message Center" on the League Home Page)

ASG28 (in Columbus, Ohio)

The All Yankee League all stars gathered in the state capital of Ohio, Columbus, named after Christopher Columbus, the great explorer who was trying to sail from Spain to Asia, but ended up stumbling on America. Luckily the borders hadn’t been completely closed yet, or the whole thing might have turned out differently. 😊

Anyway, a couple of famous Columbusites were our gracious hosts for the weekend. Guy Fieri cooked us up some great food, while Simone Biles graciously toured us around the city, showing us the sites. Fieri sang the national anthem before the big game, while Biles threw out the first pitch. She started from second base, did a number of jaw-dropping somersaults and mid-air flips and stuck the landing on the pitcher’s mound. Without hesitating, she fired a strike right into the glove of the Clippers’ own Giancarlo Stanton who was crouched behind home plate – a move that he now regrets as he hadn’t crouched down like that for over a decade and thinks that he may need to spend time on the IL.

The teams took to the field, and the fireworks commenced. The offenses made it look like it was going to be a football score in the early going. In the top of the 1st, the visiting American League stars got on the board first. With one out, “Wild” Rich Hill walked Arod, then gave up a double to Aaron Judge and intentionally walked the Babe to load the bases. He then gave up a Sacrifice Fly to Travis Hafner, walked Clint Frazier to load the bases again, and then walked Jason Giambi to give the visitors a 2-0 lead. Hill then tried pitching underhand, and finally threw a strike, getting Josh Donaldson to ground out to end the inning.

In the bottom of the first, the home team jumped all over the A.L. starter Fritz Peterson. Apparently, that’s against the rules. The umpires slowly peeled the NL stars off of poor old Fritz, who only suffered minor injuries, just some cuts and scrapes and a few bruises. Fritz then got Mickey Mantle to fly out, but loaded the bases by surrendering a single to Lou Gehrig and consecutive walks to Stanton and Yogi. After Gary Sheffield struck out, Lance Berkman blasted a Grand Slam into the seats to give the home side a 4-2 lead after 1 inning.

If that scoring pace had continued, the final score would have been 32-18 for the National League. However, the pitchers did end up having something to say about that, giving up only one run and three hits total over the next 7 innings! Quite a turnaround. With the score 4-3 for the N.L. going into top of the 9th, Gary Sanchez led off the inning with a game-tying solo shot off Jim Hardin. Then with two outs, Joe DiMaggio doubled and Joey Gallo blasted a go-ahead two-run shot off Hardin to give the visitors a 6-4 lead. Rick Honeycutt would finish things off in the bottom of the 9th, giving the American League the victory. The four home-town Clippers (LeMahieu, Tulo, Stanton, and Goldschmidt) finished a combined 0-6, although Goldy never got to the plate. The fans still love them though and will continue to show up to cheer them on in the second half.

Gary Sanchez was named the ASG MVP with the game-tying homer in the 9th inning being his only at bat.

The victory was the American League’s third win in a row, but the NL still holds the advantage in the all-time ASG series, 17 wins to 11.

Every team in the league has hosted the All-Star Game once, so we’ll start over. ASG 29 will be held in Oakland, even though they no longer have a team in real life. Similar to the Montreal Expos in the AYL, the A’s will likely stay in Oakland for the foreseeable future, maybe forever.

6/20/2024

*** Special Bombers/Yankees Draft ***

This season, because the real-life Yankees recently traded away a number of players who had been on the AYL rosters of the Bombers and Yankees, those two teams will need to have a special draft to add players from Free Agency who ONLY played for the Yanks in real life. These players had been dropped by one of those two clubs in previous season as they were no longer needed to get the Bombers and Yankees to 28 roster players, but now they're needed again, at least until the 2024 real life season is finished and players like Luis Gil and perhaps a few others are added.

For this draft, there will be 5 picks (3 for the Bombers and 2 for the Yankees) to bring both rosters back up to 28 so they're ready for the 2-round draft. The Bombers will pick first.

Here are the eligible candidates (I know, nothing special here. Just hold your nose and message me with your choices). I'll update the progress of the draft here in this story. For more stats, find them in Free Agency, or enter their name in the search bar on the home page:
Clay Christiansen (RP) 1.63 WHIP, 11.8 H/9, 6.4 SO/9, 31 Stamina (Bombers’ 2nd pick)
Gil Patterson (SP) 1.76 WHIP, 10.4 H/9, 7.9 SO/9, 60 Stamina (Yankees’ 2nd pick)
Wade Taylor (SP) 1.70 WHIP, 11.2 H/9, 5.6 SO/9, 90 Stamina (Yankees’ 1st pick)
Zoilo Almonte (OF) .236 AVG, .579 OPS, 1 HR, 1.000 Fld%, -.01 Dwar, 4 Speed
Jack Reed (OF) .205 AVG, .567 OPS, 0 HR, 1.000 Fld%, .08 Dwar, 8 Speed - (Bombers’ 1st pick)
Celerino Sanchez (3B/IF) .248 AVG, .597 OPS, 0 HR, .939 Fld%, .14 Dwar, 4 Speed

and that's it. Bombers have first pick. Message me with your choice and we'll go from there.
1. Bombers - Jack Reed
2. Yankees - Wade Taylor
3. Bombers - Clay Christiansen
4. Yankees - Gil Patterson
5. Bombers -Zoilo Almonte

7/21/2018

Welcome to the AYL (All Yankees League)

- This is a unique league with some unusual rules, including limited Trades and Free Agency, players must play for franchises they played for in Real Life, a Rule 13 Draft which allows weak teams to steal players from good teams each offseason, and a Lucky Losers Rule for the worst team in each league.
- 28 Teams in the league, including 2 Original Yankee teams called the New York Yankees and the Bronx Bombers. Plus a combination expansion team made up of Arizona, Colorado, Miami, and Tampa Bay players called the Columbus Clippers (named after the Yanks' long-time farm team).
- The Washington Nationals play as the Montreal Expos (Commish is from Canada - Go Figure!!)
- The transactions of the real life MLB New York Yankees are the cornerstone of this league and what makes it unique and fun. Whenever the Yankees make a move in real life, it has a chance to impact teams in our AYL (All Yankees League). Your roster can change significantly based on what the real Yanks do from day to day and season to season.