From Brian Murphy:
The Yankees are set to add a veteran left-hander to their pitching staff.
The club has agreed to a Major League contract with left-hander Ryan Yarbrough, a source told MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand. The team has not confirmed the move.
Yarbrough is entering his eighth season in the Majors. He recorded a career-best 3.19 ERA across 44 relief appearances last year split between the Dodgers and Blue Jays. He re-signed with Toronto on a Minor League deal earlier this offseason, but he became a free agent once again last week after exercising an opt-out clause in his contract.
Yarbrough has been a valuable swingman throughout the bulk of his career and alternated between starting and relieving while with the Rays, Royals and Dodgers from 2018-23. Last season was the first in which Yarbrough pitched exclusively out of the bullpen.
Legit no idea why the Blue Jays didn’t have him make their roster.
Nice pickup.
Got my Yankees hat on today for Uncle Billy.
Brian, do you have any specific game-watching memories of him, either on TV or at the stadium?
Aw, that’s sweet of you. Honestly, not really, since I had two older brothers and a dad, so I already had a lot of people to go to games with as a kid. But he was really good at humoring me yammering on about the stats on the baseball cards when I was a kid.
His wake was today, and he’s going to be buried with his Yankee cap, and some dirt from Yankee Stadium. There was a big flower arrangement of the Yankees logo. It was very sweet.
I guess Reyes just solidified a spot today with a 2/2 including a home run. How’s his defense at 3b? For his career he has decent splits against RHPs which would pair well with Waldo.
As long as I never have to hear DJLM again I’m good.
Dominguez and Rice continue to fall back to earth.
Rice OPS 848 this spring, I think we would all settle for that in the regular season.
Jake Woodford newest addition to bullpen taxi squad. Can he revisit 2022?
Cashman just looped me in to a secret Signal chat, The Astros cheated.
Airstikes on Houston?
It’s better than they deserve.
Might not help, but I don’t see a downside.
Yankee-themed flowers at the burial.
love it
Sorry for your loss. Very cool flowers.
Thanks!
Joshua Diemert Pinstripe Alley column on Jackie Robinson. I did not know he was court martialed in Texas for getting into it with a white bus driver who objected to him sitting next to a white woman on a bus ride back from the officer’s club. He was eventually found not guilty, but had he been found guilty would Branch Rickey have chosen him? And because of the court martial Jackie could not go to Europe and had he gone to Europe in 1944 who knows what would’ve happened.
The real Will Warren from 2024 is back. After a hot start his era is up over 5, today 3.2ip, 4er,5h, 2bb but 6Ks. Our3-5 in the rotation used to be our6-8 at the start of ST.
We don’t need no stinkin’ starting pitching.
If Cookie pitches even okay, Warren might only make a single start before Schmidt returns.
Just strolling by to keep up and saw about Uncle Billy. Sorry for your loss, BC.
I’ve never been less invested in a Yankees team than this one. Hopefully they surprise.
I am going to the game Sunday though.
MLBTR “Dodgers non-roster invitee David Bote triggered an upward mobility clause in his minor league contract yesterday, reports Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic. That clause forces the Dodgers to make the veteran infielder available to all 29 other teams and let him go if another club is willing to put him on its 40-man roster. Los Angeles would be able to counter by instead selecting Bote to its own 40-man.”
Bote is such an odd duck, as he actually has hit pretty well in the Majors in a number of different seasons, but his one bad year was so bad.
Keith Law picks Ysnks to win 84 games and finish 4th in the AL East.
I think a path to finishing under 500 is clearer to me than one that has them in the WS.
I think that Law is being absurd. Besides, we don’t need no stinkin’ starting pitching.
winning the ws is pretty hard but i think both scenarios are unlikely.
91 wins.
That’s insane. They’re CLEARLY going to finish 3rd.
86-76, here we come.
Sic, you can’t possibly know how many Yankees are going to go down – after this stirring beginning of the 2025 campaign, they have an entire season ahead of them, filled with the richest and broadest possibilities imaginable for trauma and incapacity!
Unless, of course, you’re simply assuming that they’ll all get hurt, which seems reasonable. But then third place would just be “changing the projection system to favor the Yankees,” which I respect and presume.
My model includes weights for Phil Hughes naked pictures, which gave them a 2-win bump.
“Forbes | Justin Teitelbaum & Brett Knight: Forbes’ annual ranking of MLB squads by enterprise value is out, with the Yankees once again atop the table. The estimated value of the franchise is $8.2 billion USD, up nine percent from last year. The Yankees are priced at 11.3x revenues, the highest multiple of the 30 teams.”
But we couldn’t afford to add someone. The Dodgers valued at 6.8, townies 4.8.
Just look at all of those IL moves…
• Optioned RHP Yerry de los Santos to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
• Placed RHP Clayton Beeter on the 15-day injured list (retroactive to 3/24) with right shoulder impingement syndrome.
• Placed RHP JT Brubaker on the 15-day injured list (retroactive to 3/24) with left rib fractures.
• Placed RHP Scott Effross on the 15-day injured list (retroactive to 3/24) with a left hamstring strain.
• Placed RHP Ian Hamilton on the 15-day injured list (retroactive to 3/24) with a viral illness.
• Placed INF DJ LeMahieu on the 10-day injured list (retroactive to 3/24) with a left calf strain.
• Placed RHP Jonathan Loáisiga on the 15-day injured list (retroactive to 3/24) with right elbow surgery recovery.
• Placed RHP Clarke Schmidt on the 15-day injured list (retroactive to 3/24) with right rotator cuff tendonitis.
• Placed DH/OF Giancarlo Stanton on the 10-day injured list (retroactive to 3/24) with right and left elbow epicondylitis.
Pablo Reyes has made the team, and as of right this second, it looks like Brent Headrick has made the team. I bet Cash makes a move, though.
Peraza’s still here.
The road to the third wildcard starts today!
Even in the Wasteland, even at Dante’s gates, John refuses to abandon even the wildest hope.
Looks like Roasny Contreras won’t make the Orioles’ roster. Does that mean they have to see if they can get him through waivers? If so, the Yankees should totally claim him. They must have a 60-Day IL slot laying around.
Wait, when did we get Lasagna back ?
Signed him a while back.
So we ate our Lasagna and get to have him, too.
Prediction time: 82-80. Making some strange deadline trades to ensure the winning streak continues (barely) another year.
My wild-ass guess for a median outcome would be 89-73, second place, third wild card. But there’s such a wide range of possibilities. This could be a first place team if the remaining players stay healthy and if Warren and Carrasco don’t stink; or it could be a last place team if more guys keep getting hurt, nobody gets to rest, and the offense falters.
I can see this being the year the streak ends. Too many question marks and no depth.