Hal Steinbrenner opted to make the bold change Friday ahead of the 2025 season rather than be forced to react at the worst possible time.

The Yankees facial hair policy had long overstayed its welcome to the extent it was ever appropriate. The policy was likely illegal, and against the team's interest.

The New York Yankees are altering their strict facial hair policy heading into the 2025 MLB season."In recent weeks, I have spoken to a large number of former and current Yankees—spanning several eras—to elicit their perspectives on our longstanding facial hair and grooming policy,

This Yankees team is about to look different than any other in a generation. Managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner announced on Friday that the organization has amended its long-standing facial grooming policy,

For the first time in nearly 50 years, the Yankees will allow their players and uniformed staff to grow beards — so long as they are “well-groomed” — as Hal Steinbrenner announced on Friday that the organization was relaxing its facial hair policy that had been instituted by his father, George, in 1976.

It was about long hair. Lost in all the hoopla about the Yankees last week updating their facial hair policy to allow “well-groomed” beards was that George Steinbrenner was much more offended by long hair than facial hair when he instituted the policy in the mid-1970s,

Current and former players around Major League Baseball are reacting to the recent rule change the New York Yankees implemented. Some opinions are pretty shocking.