New York Yankees All-Time Roster

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New York Yankees All-Time Player Roster (1903–2025)

This roster includes every player who appeared in a major league season for the New York Yankees franchise from 1903 through 2025, listed alphabetically by last name with years played for franchise and primary position.

Longest-Tenured New York Yankees Players

All-Time Player Roster (Alphabetical)

A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · W · X · Y · Z

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

All underlying data used in this analysis is available in The Baseball Scholar Data Library.

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9 Comments

  1. Can’t quite understand your relief pitching picks. It’s hard to take this seriously when you have ADAM WARREN on the Yankees all-time roster. The guy had a career 3.42 ERA and was never even a setup man. Crack open an old encyclopedia and learn about guys like Sparky Lyle and Johnny Murphy. Hell, even Dave Righetti.

    1. Author

      Hi Dan. I believe reading the opening paragraph may answer the why Adam Warren question.

      Adam Warren’s career ERA as a Yankee is 3.18. I prefer ERA- for context and Warren’s is 78 (meaning his ERA is 21% better than league average). His overall career ERA is 3.42.

      While I agree that Adam Warren is not among the 6 best Yankee relief pitchers of all-time the idea was to create a pitching staff made up of 5 starters, 2 relief pitchers (who pitched in mostly non-closing situations thus the less than 30 saves qualification mentioned in the opening paragraph), and 1 closer. I am familiar with Sparky Lyle, Johnny Murphy, and Dave Righetti. They were all considered for the closer role. Because they all had more than 30 career saves as a Yankee they were not eligible for the relief pitcher role.

  2. Non Yankee fan but huge baseball historian. Not sure why Berra always get shafted when greatest Yankee teams are compiled.

    The only stat that Dickey is better is batting average and his was done at a time when overall averages were inflated. Berra was outstanding defensively with a great arm (as was Dickey)

    Yogi was ugly and not taken seriously as a great player by many because of it but other than Bench was probably best all around catcher of all-time.

    Not trying to disparage Dickey here but a 3 time MVP with better WAR should get the nod. The years that Dickey missed due to WW2 were well after his prime so not sure WAR would have increased much, if at all.

  3. yogi is the best catcher of all-time. how can he be the second-best yankee catcher

  4. How would they do compared to all the rest of all all Stars combined?

    1. Author

      James, creating a total value of these all-time rosters would be tough and even more subjective. I think the Giants, Dodgers, and Cardinals all have strong teams but I don’t believe any other all-time team is better than the Yankees.

  5. Mantle played Left over 100 times for the Yanks…so, take out Keller and move Mantle to Left, making room for Joe in Center.

  6. I must admit the Yankees, without a doubt, greatest all time team. But, if there is one franchise that can at least sniff the Yanks, its my Detroit Tigers.
    C Berra vs Freehan
    1B Gherig vs Greenberg
    2B Cano vs Gheringer
    3B Nettles vs Miggy
    OF Ruth, Mantle, Dimaggio vs Cobb, Kaline, Heilmann

    1. Sorry bro. It’s not that close. I lived in Detroit 7 yrs in the early 70’s. But spot for spot we only have the Georgia peach!

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