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Yankees’ Bednar Back to Being Bullpen Stopper After Rocky 2025 Start

This past July, the New York Yankees made an offer for reliever David Bednar that was too attractive for the Pittsburgh Pirates to pass on.
Yankees’ Bednar Back to Being Bullpen Stopper After Rocky 2025 Start
David Bednar of the New York Yankees looks on during the game against the Houston Astros at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York City on Aug. 9, 2025. Ishika Samant/Getty Images
Donald Laible
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As the New York Yankees’ schedule is closer to the final regular-season game, odds are favoring closer David Bednar and his teammates returning to postseason play, come October.

The Yankees, with 80 wins, are in second place in the American League East, just two games behind first-place Toronto Blue Jays. In his four full seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates, the most wins Bednar experienced was 76. In 2023, Bednar’s second consecutive all-star season, the Pirates finished in fourth place in the National League Central.

Donald Laible
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Don has covered pro baseball for several decades, beginning in the minor leagues as a radio broadcaster in the NY Mets organization. His Ice Chips & Diamond Dust blog ran from 2012-2020 at uticaod.com. His baseball passion surrounds anything concerning the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and writing features on the players and staff of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Don currently resides in southwest Florida.