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Pinstripe Alley’s Top 100 Yankees How the list came about.
This offseason, PSA will run a months-long tribute to the greatest to ever don Yankees pinstripes.

By Andrew Mearns@MearnsPSA Updated Dec 24, 2023, 10:23pm EST 10 Comments / 10 New
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Today, Pinstripe Alley’s revised Top 100 Yankees will commence. Here’s how the master list came to be:

Among the PSA staff, Jake, Matt, John, Josh, Esteban, Peter, Sam, Andrés, Kevin, Casey, Noah, and I all submitted lists. Each list was given equal weight in the final tally.
To get a neutral perspective, I found the Top 100 Yankees by both Baseball Reference WAR and FanGraphs WAR, averaged the rankings, and created a single Top 100 from the resulting list. This is by my own admission not an entirely perfect method since different elements go into calculating each version of WAR, but it’s the one I chose to get a couple different objective rankings.
One last list came from the aforementioned fan vote. We had quite a few lists come in via e-mail, and while plenty were from people who just read the site rather than comment, I do want to salute PSA community members SJNYCPianoYank, pjhimself, Why’s The Name Gone, NJYankeeFan, rutgersstu, Citizenghosttown, francesco smith, and quingbokong for submitting lists! The final fan list was created from the 100 Yankees who had the highest average rankings.
A grand total of 216 different Yankees received votes for the Top 100! Obviously, not everyone ranked all 216 names, so whenever someone failed to appear on a list-maker’s Top 100, they were automatically given a ranking of 101. That way, the absence was acknowledged with no assumptions made regarding how low they might have fallen, and I didn’t have to haggle everyone for even longer lists.
The master list came from the average of the 14 sources noted in bold font above. The 100 highest-ranking names made the final cut.

With all due respect to the Casey Stengels and Gene Michaels of the world, no managers or executives were considered.

Comparing non-playing personnel to the men on the field is like comparing apples and oranges; hell, peanuts and sweater vests might be closer.