Offseason questions for eliminated teams: What's next for Yankees after ALDS defeat

The 2025 MLB playoffs are present -- and for immoderate teams, October is going to past a batch longer than it is for immoderate others.

We commencement with the wild-card round, wherever the Cincinnati Reds became the archetypal squad eliminated from postseason contention -- connected the precise archetypal time of October, nary little -- with a two-game bid nonaccomplishment to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The adjacent day, the Cleveland Guardians mislaid their bid to the Detroit Tigers, the San Diego Padres fell to the Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox were knocked retired by the New York Yankees successful a trio of Game 3s.

In the part series, the archetypal squad to go: those aforesaid Yankees, who were defeated by their American League East rival Toronto Blue Jays successful 4 games.

What's adjacent for the teams and towns that won't beryllium celebrating a World Series parade this fall? As each contender is eliminated, ESPN MLB experts Bradford Doolittle, Alden Gonzalez and David Schoenfield volition database that club's cardinal escaped agents and biggest offseason questions and marque their predictions for the long, acold wintertime ahead.

Teams eliminated successful part series

New York Yankees

Eliminated by: Blue Jays

Key escaped agents: 1B Paul Goldschmidt, CF Trent Grisham, RHP Luke Weaver, RHP Devin Williams, OF/1B Cody Bellinger ($25 cardinal subordinate option)

Biggest offseason priority: With Bellinger astir definite to opt retired aft an under-the-radar 29-homer, 5-WAR season, and Grisham coming disconnected a shocking 34-homer season, the Yankees volition person not lone 2 large hitters to regenerate but a spread successful halfway field. Jasson Dominguez is not the reply determination fixed his mediocre antiaircraft metrics successful near field, truthful determination mightiness beryllium unit to re-sign either Bellinger oregon Grisham, with Bellinger the much desirable subordinate fixed that Grisham had deed nether .200 successful the 3 erstwhile seasons. Bellinger's quality to play archetypal basal is simply a large plus, though Ben Rice volition apt instrumentality implicit determination connected a full-time basis. Outside of Kyle Tucker, the remainder of the outfield escaped cause people is beauteous thin, however, truthful the Yankees volition person contention for Bellinger's services.

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