These four Yankees already have World Series rings. And they want another one.

Clockwise, from top left: Max Fried, Amed Rosario, Ryan Yarbrough and Cody Bellinger of the Yankees.
The Yankees, who are in the early stages of chasing World Series title No. 28, have multiple players with extensive postseason experience. But most of them, such as captain Aaron Judge, are chasing their first World Series rings.
Four current Yankees – Cody Bellinger, Max Fried, Ryan Yarbrough and Amed Rosario -- have World Series rings.
Bellinger has one from the 2020 champion Dodgers. He hit just .136 in the World Series, but the Dodgers might not have gotten there without his go-ahead home run in Los Angeles’ victory over Atlanta in Game 7 of the NLCS. He also hit a two-run homer for the first runs of the World Series, which the Dodgers won in six games over Tampa Bay.
“For me, it's a really unexplainable feeling because the postseason is full of so many ups and downs,” Bellinger told Newsday on Sunday. “When you finally make that last out it’s an insane feeling.”
Bellinger has a way to go to catch his father, Clay, who played for the Yankees from 1999-2001 and for the Angels in 2002. Clay Bellinger has an incredible three World Series rings from every season he played except for 2001, when the Yankees lost the World Series to Arizona in seven games.
“I wish I remembered more,” said Cody Bellinger, who was born in 1995. “I was a little too young. But my parents did a good job of taking videos and everything. We have a bunch.”
Fried has a ring from Atlanta’s victory in the 2021 World Series. He threw six shutout innings in Atlanta’s clinching 7-0 win in Game 6 over Houston.
“I never wear it,” the low-key Freid said on the eve of his Game 1 start. “But it was a dream come true. It was incredible to be able to work hard with a group of guys and achieve the goal that we set out at the beginning of the year. It’s one of those feelings I definitely want to be able to have again, especially here in New York.”
The other two have ring credentials that are a little shaky. Yarbrough and Rosario were given rings because they were at one point members of the 2024 Dodgers, who beat the Yankees in five games in the World Series.
Yarbrough chuckled when the subject of his ring was mentioned to him. The lefthander appeared in 32 games for the Dodgers last season and went 4-2 with a 3.72 ERA and one save. But he was traded to Toronto on July 30.
The Dodgers gave Yarbrough his ring when the Yankees visited Los Angeles in May. That meant he got to celebrate with some of his former Dodgers teammates while trying not to make too much of it in front of his current, vanquished Yankees teammates.
“I mean, it's definitely a cool thing, but it was really kind of a little bittersweet,” he said. “A little strange moment being here now. It was just a little weird, especially since I was there and then got traded away for the last couple months and then wasn't necessarily a part of it.”
Yarbrough said his ring is at his house, and “it’s very protected right now. It's one of those things where maybe if people are like, ‘Hey, do you mind if we check it out?’ then OK. But it's not going to be something that's going to be, like, paraded around.”
Rosario only had 11 at-bats for the Dodgers before getting waived in August. But the former Mets shortstop appears to treasure the trinket as if he had been on the field at Yankee Stadium when the Dodgers closed out the World Series.
“It’s amazing because I think you see a lot of guys – superstars – they have everything, but they don’t have the ring,” Rosario said. “Everybody plays because they want the ring. For me, I feel really special. It’s really beautiful and I had an opportunity to get one.”
The Dodgers mailed the shiny bauble (it reportedly features 14-karat gold, more than 300 diamonds and 120 sapphires) to Rosario earlier this season when he was playing for Washington.
A few weeks earlier, Rosario’s Nationals teammates Eduardo Salazar had received his ring from the Dodgers.
Salazar appeared in exactly one game for the Dodgers in 2024.
“I asked if they give it to everybody, and they said yes,” Rosario said. “When they sent me mine with my name and my number, it felt very special.”
And if he gets one with the Yankees?
“That will be more special,” Rosario said.
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