It’s not every day a catcher bats leadoff, but the Yankees aren’t following a traditional script this season — and Austin ...

The Yankees didn’t just shake up the top of their lineup heading into the 2025 season—they took a full-blown gamble. […] ...

Austin Wells became the first Yankees catcher ever to start in the leadoff spot and he homered in his first at-bat to make ...

John Romano | For a franchise that relies on depth, Tampa Bay still has a handful of players critical to the fortunes of the ...

This Opening Day belonged to the kids. For the first time in 70 years, two Yankees aged 25 or younger went deep in the first ...

After loading the bases with no outs against his former team and allowing Brice Turang's sacrifice fly, Williams struck out ...

Austin Wells became the first catcher to hit a leadoff homer on opening day, Anthony Volpe also went deep and the New York ...

The big swing made Wells the first Yankee at any position to hit a leadoff home run on Opening Day, according to MLB stats ...

Austin Wells became the first catcher to hit a leadoff homer on opening day, Anthony Volpe also went deep and the New York ...

New York Yankees' Austin Wells, left, celebrates his solo home run with Aaron Judge during the first inning of an opening-day ...

NEW YORK – Austin Wells said he never thought of himself as a leadoff hitter; the heart of the lineup had always felt like ...