New York Yankees

Every MLB player the encyclopedia attributes to the New York Yankeesfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.

Every position room New York Yankees has passed down, steadiest first. The DH room is their most stable — 6 holders across 58 years, a new one every 9.7 on average.

1. DH6 holders · 5 handoffs · 1969–2026 · one every 9.7y
   Ron Blomberg1969–1976→Cliff Johnson1977–1979→Don Baylor1983–1985→Kevin Maas1990–1993→Miguel Andujar2017–2022→Giancarlo Stanton2018–2026
2. 1B15 holders · 14 handoffs · 1905–2016 · one every 7.5y
   Hal Chase1905–1913→Wally Pipp1915–1925→Lou Gehrig1923–1939→Nick Etten1943–1946→Joe Collins1948–1957→Bill Skowron1954–1962→Joe Pepitone1962–1969→Mike Hegan1964–1974→Chris Chambliss1974–1988→Steve Balboni1981–1990→Don Mattingly1982–1995→Tino Martinez1996–2005→Nick Johnson2001–2010→Jason Giambi2002–2008→Mark Teixeira2009–2016
3. SS17 holders · 16 handoffs · 1903–2026 · one every 7.3y
   Kid Elberfeld1903–1909→John Knight1909–1913→Roger Peckinpaugh1913–1921→Mark Koenig1925–1930→Lyn Lary1929–1934→Joe Sewell1931–1933→Frankie Crosetti1932–1948→Phil Rizzuto1941–1956→Tony Kubek1957–1965→Gene Michael1968–1974→Bucky Dent1977–1982→Roy Smalley III1982–1984→Derek Jeter1995–2014→Rey Sanchez1997–2005→Alex Rodriguez2004–2016→Didi Gregorius2015–2019→Anthony Volpe2023–2026
4. C17 holders · 16 handoffs · 1908–2021 · one every 6.7y
   Ed Sweeney1908–1915→Wally Schang1921–1925→Bill Dickey1928–1946→Aaron Robinson1943–1947→Yogi Berra1946–1963→Johnny Blanchard1955–1965→Elston Howard1955–1967→Jake Gibbs1962–1971→Thurman Munson1969–1979→Rick Cerone1980–1990→Butch Wynegar1982–1986→Matt Nokes1990–1994→Jim Leyritz1990–2000→Mike Stanley1992–1997→Jorge Posada1995–2011→Brian McCann2014–2016→Gary Sánchez2015–2021
5. 3B20 holders · 19 handoffs · 1903–2021 · one every 6y
   Wid Conroy1903–1908→George Moriarty1906–1908→Roy Hartzell1911–1916→Fritz Maisel1913–1917→Home Run Baker1916–1922→Joe Dugan1922–1928→Red Rolfe1931–1942→Oscar Grimes Jr.1943–1946→Billy Johnson1943–1951→Bobby Brown1946–1954→Andy Carey1952–1960→Clete Boyer1959–1966→Jerry Kenney1967–1972→Graig Nettles1973–1983→Mike Pagliarulo1984–1989→Charlie Hayes1992–1997→Wade Boggs1993–1997→Scott Brosius1998–2001→Chase Headley2014–2017→Gio Urshela2019–2021
6. 2B23 holders · 22 handoffs · 1903–2026 · one every 5.4y
   Jimmy Williams1903–1907→Frank LaPorte1905–1910→Aaron Ward1917–1926→Del Pratt1918–1920→Tony Lazzeri1926–1937→Joe Gordon1938–1946→Snuffy Stirnweiss1943–1950→Jerry Coleman1949–1957→Billy Martin1950–1957→Gil McDougald1951–1960→Bobby Richardson1955–1966→Horace Clarke1965–1974→Willie Randolph1976–1988→Randy Velarde1987–2001→Steve Sax1989–1991→Pat Kelly1991–1997→Mike Gallego1992–1994→Homer Bush1997–2004→Chuck Knoblauch1998–2001→Robinson Canó2005–2013→Gleyber Torres2018–2024→DJ LeMahieu2019–2025→Jazz Chisholm Jr.2024–2026

+2 more rooms with a shorter average hold.

Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1903–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.