Wednesday's 5-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 4 of the American League Division Series means the New York Yankees have gone 16 years since winning the World Series, which is quite the drought for a franchise with 27 championship rings.

The New York Yankees were criticized by an MLB insider after tallying another season without a World Series victory.

As the Dodgers and Blue Jays meet in the 2025 World Series, here are the former Yankees and Mets who will be looking to win the title.

NEW YORK — Yankees captain Aaron Judge mentioned the “gantlet of games’’ they played entering September, and those who “kind of counted us out’’ as a World Series contender. Without benefit of another series against the Blue Jays, the Yankees ...

NEW YORK — Gerrit Cole has been mostly invisible this season while recovering from Tommy John surgery, but he nevertheless has a Yoda-like wisdom about the Yankees in October. Brace yourself. On the scale of one-to-Joe Namath in the 1969 Super Bowl, Cole ...

Dominance against the Yankees may run in the Guerrero family. Vladimir Guerrero Sr., the Blue Jays star's father, also had a history of success against the Yanks — from a .318 lifetime average to reportedly being pursued by New York in the 2003 free agency period.

Five MLB teams are still chasing their first World Series title. Here’s a breakdown of their longest droughts and closest calls.

Gehrig played for the Yankees from 1923 to 1939, collecting 493 home runs and winning six World Series and two AL MVPs. He was diagnosed with ALS, now commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in 1939 and played just eight games that season, but stayed with the team and delivered the Yankees' lineup cards to umpires.