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For the second time this season the Yankees have completed a game using only players who hadn't been born the last time the team finished under .500 . Discounting brand-new franchises in their first year, they are the only AL/NL team who has ever fielded any such players at all.
They previously achieved this feat on July 5 https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA202607050.shtml .
Just eight of the 43 players used by the Yankees this year were born before the end of the 1992 season: Paul Goldschmidt, Giancarlo Stanton, Tim Hill, Fernando Cruz, Gerrit Cole, Randal Grichuk, Ryan Yarbrough, and Aaron Judge. (Carlos Rodon was born in December 1992, after the season ended)
The first Yankee born after the beginning of this stretch of success was Jacob Lindgren, who debuted in May 2015. Beginning in 2024 there have been an increasing number of games in which none of the Yankees' *starters* were older than the team's winning streak, but fogies later came in to relieve or pinch-hit (most recently Friday).
This is still not the longest winning streak in history: the Yankees also had a stretch of 39 consecutive winning seasons from 1926 through 1964. In 1947, Don Johnson became the first major-leaguer born after his team's last losing season. The Yankees played their first full game without any such players on July 4, 1958 (second game of a doubleheader), and after Yogi Berra retired at the end of 1963, every game they played met this criteria until they clinched a losing season on 9/25/1965.
The Yankees' uniqueness here is ignoring those often-brief periods in which a brand-new franchise enters the league and therefore, for at least the first few months, technically has no losing seasons at all. Every expansion team began life with a losing campaign, but several of the charter franchises had immediate success. The Athletics finished .500 or better in their first seven seasons.
But the most extreme case is the Kansas City Monarchs, who joined the Negro National League in 1920 and didn't post a losing season until 1944, a stretch of 18 consecutive seasons at .500 or better (not including a six-year gap in which they did not participate in a recognized major league), tying the 1968-85 Orioles for the longest non-Yankee run of all time. A total of seven Monarchs, beginning with Connie Johnson in 1941, were born after the first game of their first season, and would seem to fit at least the spirit of the requirements.
Source: Me, using Baseball Reference.
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They previously achieved this feat on July 5 https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA202607050.shtml .
Just eight of the 43 players used by the Yankees this year were born before the end of the 1992 season: Paul Goldschmidt, Giancarlo Stanton, Tim Hill, Fernando Cruz, Gerrit Cole, Randal Grichuk, Ryan Yarbrough, and Aaron Judge. (Carlos Rodon was born in December 1992, after the season ended)
The first Yankee born after the beginning of this stretch of success was Jacob Lindgren, who debuted in May 2015. Beginning in 2024 there have been an increasing number of games in which none of the Yankees' *starters* were older than the team's winning streak, but fogies later came in to relieve or pinch-hit (most recently Friday).
This is still not the longest winning streak in history: the Yankees also had a stretch of 39 consecutive winning seasons from 1926 through 1964. In 1947, Don Johnson became the first major-leaguer born after his team's last losing season. The Yankees played their first full game without any such players on July 4, 1958 (second game of a doubleheader), and after Yogi Berra retired at the end of 1963, every game they played met this criteria until they clinched a losing season on 9/25/1965.
The Yankees' uniqueness here is ignoring those often-brief periods in which a brand-new franchise enters the league and therefore, for at least the first few months, technically has no losing seasons at all. Every expansion team began life with a losing campaign, but several of the charter franchises had immediate success. The Athletics finished .500 or better in their first seven seasons.
But the most extreme case is the Kansas City Monarchs, who joined the Negro National League in 1920 and didn't post a losing season until 1944, a stretch of 18 consecutive seasons at .500 or better (not including a six-year gap in which they did not participate in a recognized major league), tying the 1968-85 Orioles for the longest non-Yankee run of all time. A total of seven Monarchs, beginning with Connie Johnson in 1941, were born after the first game of their first season, and would seem to fit at least the spirit of the requirements.
Source: Me, using Baseball Reference.
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