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2025 Batting
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Home Runs
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Stolen Bases
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| Regular Season | .207 | 8 | 28 | .732 | 2 |
Top Austin Wells News
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Not starting Saturday
Wells isn't in the lineup for Saturday's game against the Mets.
Wells will grab a seat on the bench Saturday after going 0-for-3 with a walk in Friday's series opener. J.C. Escarra will take over behind the plate and bat seventh.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Getting breather Wednesday
Wells is absent from the lineup for Wednesday's contest in Seattle.
Wells caught each of the last four games, so he will receive some rest during Wednesday's matinee. J.C. Escarra will be behind the dish and bat eighth for the Yankees.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Drives in four Monday
Wells went 1-for-4 with a three-run home run and an additional RBI in Monday's 11-5 win over the Mariners.
Wells finished off a six-run fifth inning for the Yankees with his homer. He added a sacrifice fly to pad the lead in the seventh. The catcher has just one multi-hit effort over nine games in May, going 6-for-27 (.222) with three homers and 11 RBI this month. Overall, he's batting .215 with a .760 OPS, eight homers, 28 RBI, 15 runs scored and a stolen base across 139 plate appearances. He's not always consistent at the plate, but he has been impactful with his hitting lately.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Getting Friday off
Wells isn't in the lineup for Friday's game against the Athletics.
Wells will take a seat Friday after going 3-for-12 with a home run, five RBI, two runs scored and a stolen base in New York's previous series against the Padres. J.C. Escarra will start behind the plate and bat seventh.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Belts grand slam
Wells went 2-for-5 with a home run, five RBI, two runs scored and a stolen base in Tuesday's win against San Diego.
Wells did all of his damage during the Yankees' massive 10-run seventh inning. He knocked an RBI single, swiped second base and scored a run before coming back to the plate and ripping a grand slam. It was his first multi-hit game since April 27 and his third long ball over his last seven appearances. Wells is slashing .220/.273/.486 with 14 extra-base hits and 23 RBI through 32 games.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Resting Sunday
Wells is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Rays.
He'll get a routine day off for Sunday's matinee after he started behind the dish in each of the Yankees' last five games. J.C. Escarra will step in at catcher Sunday, forming a battery with starting pitcher Will Warren.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Cranks sixth long ball
Wells went 1-for-4 with a solo home run Saturday in a loss to the Rays.
Wells gave New York a 2-1 lead with his fifth-inning blast, but Tampa Bay scored twice in the eighth to pull out the victory. The homer extended the backstop's on-base streak to eight games, a stretch during which he's batting .265 with two long balls, four doubles and eight RBI. On the season, Wells is hitting just .208, but he's tied for fourth among catchers with 18 RBI and is tied for fifth with six home runs.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Participates in home run onslaught
Wells went 1-for-6 with a solo homer in Tuesday's 15-3 win over the Orioles.
In case a 12-run lead wasn't enough, Wells gave the Yankees a 13-run cushion in the ninth inning when he took Bryan Baker deep to left-center field for a solo homer. It was Wells' fifth home run of the season, and the 25-year-old backstop has logged at least one RBI in five straight games, going 7-for-23 (.304) over that span.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Sitting for nightcap
Wells is not in the starting lineup for Game 2 of Sunday's doubleheader with the Blue Jays.
Wells will take a seat after he went 2-for-5 with two doubles, three RBI and a run scored in the team's 11-2 matinee win over Toronto. J.C. Escarra will draw the start at catcher and bat eighth against the Blue Jays.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Grabbing seat Tuesday
Wells is absent from the lineup for Tuesday's game in Cleveland.
It's a routine day off for Wells, who started each of the previous three contests. J.C. Escarra will do the catching and bat eighth for the Yankees.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Launches homer in win
Wells went 1-for-3 with a solo home run and a walk in Sunday's 4-0 win over Tampa Rays.
Wells put the finishing touches on Sunday's victory, taking Garrett Cleavinger deep in the top of the ninth inning for New York's final run of the game. The catcher is now batting .197 with four home runs, 10 RBI and seven runs scored over 61 at-bats in 19 games this season. After homering in each of the first two games of the season, Wells has now hit a more modest two more home runs since that hot start.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Back in action Saturday
Wells (illness) will start at catcher and bat third Saturday against the Rays.
Wells missed Friday's contest due to a bout of food poisoning, but he's now feeling better and will return behind the plate to form a battery with Carlos Carrasco on Saturday. The 25-year-old backstop has gone 2-for-16 with a homer and two RBI across his last five games.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Battling food poisoning
Wells is not in the lineup for Friday's game versus the Rays due to food poisoning, Bryan Hoch of MLB.com reports.
Wells received a routine day off Thursday and will miss a second straight game after he woke up ill overnight. Consider him day-to-day. J.C. Escarra will do the catching and bat sixth for the Yankees on Friday.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Riding pine Thursday
Wells is out of the lineup for Thursday's game against the Rays.
The Yankees will give Wells a chance to regroup after the 25-year-old managed just one hit -- a solo home run -- in 11 at-bats during New York's previous series against Kansas City. J.C. Escarra will fill in behind the plate Thursday and bat seventh.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Knocks third homer
Wells went 1-for-4 with a solo home run in Monday's win against Kansas City.
Wells was the fourth and final Yankee to knock a solo shot off Seth Lugo in Monday's victory. After homering in his first two appearances of 2025, Wells was stuck in a 7-for-38 (.184) skid heading into Monday. He's now slashing .208/.278/.479 with six extra-base hits and seven RBI through 54 plate appearances.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Receiving afternoon off
Wells is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Giants.
He'll get a breather for the afternoon game after he started behind the dish in the first two contests of the series, going 2-for-6 with a double and an RBI. J.C. Escarra will draw the start at catcher Sunday.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Getting Wednesday off
Wells is out of the lineup for Wednesday's game against the Tigers.
Wells will take a seat for just the second time in 12 games this season as the Yankees wrap up their series in Detroit with a matinee contest. J.C. Escarra will receive the start behind the plate, catching for starting pitcher Max Fried.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Taking seat Thursday
Wells is absent from the lineup for Thursday's contest versus the Diamondbacks.
Wells receives a well-earned breather after starting each of the Yankees' first five games at catcher. J.C. Escarra will be behind the plate, batting eighth Thursday.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Batting sixth again Tuesday
Wells will start at catcher and bat sixth in Tuesday's contest against the Diamondbacks.
After hitting leadoff on Opening Day, Wells has now batted sixth in three straight games, including in two straight against right-handed pitching. Paul Goldschmidt is again serving as the Yankees' leadoff hitter. The development dings Wells' fantasy outlook a bit, as he had appeared in line to be the team's regular leadoff hitter versus righties.
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Yankees' Austin Wells: Goes deep again Saturday
Wells went 1-for-3 with a solo home run and a walk in Saturday's 20-9 romp over the Brewers.
With a left-hander starting on the mound for Milwaukee, Wells batted sixth in the lineup rather than occupying the leadoff spot as he did on Opening Day. However, that didn't affect his performance at the plate, as the third-year catcher went deep in the first inning for one of four Yankees long balls in the frame and one of a franchise-record nine hit by the team overall in the win. After an eye-opening six-homer performance during Grapefruit League play, Wells has continued to impress at the start of the regular season, going deep in each of his first two contests.
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Player Bio
| HT/WT: 6-2, 220 lbs |
| Birthplace: Las Vegas, NV |
| Age: 25 |
| School: Arizona |
| Experience: 2 |
| Bats/Throws: L, R |