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
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.