The All-New York Team: Building the Ultimate Yankees & Mets Roster

New York baseball is officially back on Wednesday, March 25^th, when the New York Yankees travel out west to face the San Francisco Giants at 8:05p on Netflix. The next afternoon the New York Mets host the Pittsburgh Pirates at 1:15p on NBC/Peacock.

To celebrate the start of the season, we drafted the best of the best of our local teams.

All-New York Team Opening Day Lineup

1. Francisco Lindor (S), SS
2. Juan Soto (L), DH
3. Aaron Judge (R), RF
4. Cody Bellinger (L), LF
5. Bo Bichette (R), 3B
6. Jazz Chisholm, Jr (L), 2B
7. Ben Rice (L) / Jorge Polanco (S), 1B
8. Austin Wells (L) / Francisco Alvarez (R), C
9. Trent Grisham (L) / Luis Robert Jr (R), CF

Reserves

1. Marcus Semien (R), INF

Starting Pitchers

1. Freddy Peralta, RHP
2. Max Fried, LHP
3. Nolan McLean, RHP
4. Cam Schlittler, RHP
5. Kodai Senga, RHP

Relievers

1. David Bednar, RHP
2. Devin Williams, RHP
3. Tim Hill, LHP
4. Camilo Doval, RHP
5. Luke Weaver, RHP
6. David Peterson, LHP
7. Clay Holmes, RHP
8. Ryan Weathers, LHP

Injured List

1. Gerrit Cole, RHP
2. Carlos Rodon, LHP

The ”All-New York 2026 Baseball Roster” is based on a MLB-standard 26-man roster (13 batters and 13 pitchers) from the two organizations. As it turns out, we drafted 14 Mets and 12 Yankees. The Yankees evened things out with the addition of Cole and Rodon to the injured list.

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