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Yankees Appear to Send One Last Shot at Josh Naylor in ALCS Clubhouse Celebration

New York utilized a perfect prop to send a likely jab at Josh Naylor.

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Torres and Stanton celebrate the Yankees American League Championship
Torres and Stanton celebrate the Yankees American League Championship / @Yankees on Twitter
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The New York Yankees will represent the American League in the 2024 World Series. After a handful of tightly contested games against the Cleveland Guardians, New York ultimately only needed five games to finish off their side of the bracket. Now, they await the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets in the National League.

Following the game, second baseman Gleyber Torres stood next to designated hitter (and ALCS MVP) Giancarlo Stanton during an interview with YES Network's Meredith Marakovits. Torres, holding the American League trophy, said, "take the baby, take the baby," as he handed the hardware over to Stanton to cradle like a newborn. Stanton rocked the trophy like a baby.

It was hard for fans to not think back to Josh Naylor, who in 2022 rounded the basepaths while giving an aggressive baby-rocking celebration after hitting a home run. Naylor used that celebration often, but not nearly as aggressively as in that moment.

Fans quickly took Stanton and Torres's antics to be a callback to Naylor's celebration from 2022 after the Yankees eliminated him and the Guardians again.

Torres, who forced the runner out at second in 2022 to send the Yankees past the Guardians, rocked the baby on the field.

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Josh Wilson is the news director of the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in 2024, he worked for FanSided in a variety of roles, most recently as senior managing editor of the brand’s flagship site. He has also served as a general manager of Sportscasting, the sports arm of a start-up sports media company, where he oversaw the site’s editorial and business strategy. Wilson has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from SUNY Cortland and a master’s in accountancy from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. He loves a good nonfiction book and enjoys learning and practicing Polish. Wilson lives in Chicago but was raised in upstate New York. He spent most of his life in the Northeast and briefly lived in Poland, where he ate an unhealthy amount of pastries for six months.

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