Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs The New York Yankees are the most successful franchise in Major League Baseball history when it comes to winning championships. The Yankees have 27 World Series titles, more than twice as many as the team with the second-most rings. The St. Louis Cardinals hold the No. 2 spot with 11.All told, the Yankees have played in 41 World Series, and have made the postseason 59 times.Since Y2K — that is, the turn of the millennium from the 20th century to the 21st — the Yankees have played in five World Series, winning two. They have qualified for the playoffs in all but five of the 25 seasons in the current century.And they are about to make that six.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 30: Aaron Judge #99 of the New York Yankees walks off the field after being left on base during the eighth inning of Game Five of the 2024 World…
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 30: Aaron Judge #99 of the New York Yankees walks off the field after being left on base during the eighth inning of Game Five of the 2024 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Yankee Stadium on October 30, 2024 in the Bronx borough of New York City.
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That, anyway, is the “bold” prediction from MLB.com national baseball correspondent Will Leitch, who is also founder of the once-cutting edge sports site Deadspin.In a Wednesday roundup of his predictions for each of MLB’s six divisions, Leitch wrote that “we are close enough now to the start of the season that we need to start making some predictions. And we understand that there are expectations for our predictions: They need to be zesty! They need to go out on a limb!”Predicting that last year’s American League East division winners, and the team that represented the AL in the World Series, will not even grab one of three AL Wild Card slots does indeed seem like going out on a limb. What is Leitch’s reasoning behind his prediction?More MLB: Yankees Reliever Lost After One Spring Training Pitch as Injury Crisis ContinuesEven before recent injuries to Giancarlo Stanton, D.J. LeMahieu, Luis Gil and a lengthy list of others, “this team still has plenty of questions, particularly in that lineup,” Leitch wrote. “The upshot: It sure does look like Aaron Judge is going to have to do a lot of heavy lifting.”But if Judge joins the parade of the injured on the Yankees roster, the team is in trouble, according to Leitch. He points out that in 2023, when injuries limited the now-two-time MVP to 106 games, the Yankees finished at a mediocre 82-80 and missed the playoffs.”That’s a lot riding on one player. It’s going to be hard enough to repeat with him. The fall would be dramatic without him,” Leitch wrote.In a separate MLB.com column, co-authored with Mike Petriello, Leitch and his collaborator ranked all 30 MLB teams in order of likelihood that they will win the World Series, according to the two writers. In that listing, Leitch and Petriello see the Yankees as the ninth-most likely team to win it all in 2025.More MLB: Yankees Trade Urged for $5.95 Million Infielder to Save Injury-Riddled Lineup
