2001 New York Yankees season

MLB yearly infobox
name = New York Yankees
season = 2001
misc = 2001 AL East Champions
2001 AL Champions

current league = American League
y1 = 1901
division = Eastern Division
y2 = 1969
ballpark = Yankee Stadium
y4 = 1976
city = New York City, New York
y5 = 1903
owners = George Steinbrenner
managers = Joe Torre
television = WNYW
(Tim McCarver, Bobby Murcer)
MSG
(Ken Singleton,Suzyn Waldman, Jim Kaat)
radio = WABC (AM)
(Michael Kay, John Sterling)|

The New York Yankees' 2001 season was the 99th season for the Yankees. The team finished with a record of 95-65 finishing 13.5 games ahead of the Boston Red Sox. New York was managed by Joe Torre. Roger Clemens had sixteen straight wins. He tied an American League mark shared by Walter Johnson, Lefty Grove, Schoolboy Rowe, and Smoky Joe Wood. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium.

In the emotional times of October 2001 in New York City, following the September 11 attack on New York's World Trade Center, the Yankees defeated the Oakland A's three games to two in the ALDS, and then the Seattle Mariners, who had won 116 games, four games to one in the ALCS. By winning the pennant for a fourth straight year, the 1998-2001 Yankees joined the 1921-1924 New York Giants, and the Yankee teams of '36-'39, '49-'53, '55-'58 and '60-'64 as the only dynasties to reach at least four straight pennants. The Yankees had now won eleven consecutive postseason series over a four-year period. However, the Yankees lost the World Series in a dramatic 7 game series to the Arizona Diamondbacks, when Yankee star closer Mariano Rivera uncharacteristically lost the lead - and the Series - in the bottom of the ninth inning of the final game.

Offseason

*November 21, 2000: Joe Oliver was signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/o/olivejo01.shtml]
*December 7, 2000: Dwight Gooden signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/goodedw01.shtml Dwight Gooden Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]
*December 7, 2000: Luis Sojo was signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sojolu01.shtml]
*February 15, 2001: Henry Rodriguez was signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/r/rodrihe02.shtml]
*March 21, 2001: Drew Henson was traded by the Cincinnati Reds with Michael Coleman to the New York Yankees for Wily Mo Pena. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hensodr01.shtml]
*March 28, 2001: Glenallen Hill was traded by the New York Yankees to the Anaheim Angels for Darren Blakely (minors). [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hillgl01.shtml Glenallen Hill Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]

Regular Season

Notable transactions

*June 5, 2001: John Ford Griffin was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 1st round (23rd pick) of the 2001 amateur draft. Player signed June 14, 2001. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/griffjo01.shtml John-Ford Griffin Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]
*June 5, 2001: Bronson Sardinha was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 1st round (34th pick) of the 2001 amateur draft. Player signed June 13, 2001. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sardibr01.shtml Bronson Sardinha Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]
*June 19, 2001: Henry Rodriguez was released by the New York Yankees. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/r/rodrihe02.shtml]
*June 20, 2001: Joe Oliver was released by the New York Yankees. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/o/olivejo01.shtml]
* July 4, 2001: Bobby Estalella was traded by the San Francisco Giants with Joe Smith (minors) to the New York Yankees for Brian Boehringer. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/e/estalbo02.shtml Bobby Estalella Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]
*August 31, 2001: Randy Velarde was traded by the Texas Rangers to the New York Yankees for players to be named later. The New York Yankees sent Randy Flores (October 12, 2001) and Rosman Garcia (October 11, 2001) to the Texas Rangers to complete the trade. [ http://www.baseball-reference.com/v/velarra01.shtml]

Roster

[http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/2001.shtml]

Other batters

Relief pitchers

Game 2

October 28, 2001 at Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix, Arizona

Game 5

November 1, 2001 at Yankee Stadium in New York, New York

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/2001.shtml 2001 New York Yankees]
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/2001_WS.shtml 2001 World Series]
* [http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=2001&t=NYA 2001 New York Yankees team page at www.baseball-almanac.com] succession box
title = AL East Championship Season
years = 2001
before =New York Yankees
2000
after = New York Yankees
2002succession box
title = American League champion
years = 2001
before = New York Yankees
2000
after = Anaheim Angels
2002