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Reuters
3 days ago
- General
- Reuters
Yankees reinstate 2B Jazz Chisholm Jr., RHP Fernando Cruz from IL
June 3 - The New York Yankees reinstated second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. and reliever Fernando Cruz from the injured list on Tuesday. The team also put right-hander Luke Weaver on the 15-day injured list (retroactive to Sunday) with a left hamstring strain, recalled right-hander Yerry de los Santos from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, optioned infielder Jorbit Vivas to Triple-A and designated right-hander Carlos Carrasco for assignment. Chisholm, 27, has not played in the majors since April 29 due to an oblique strain. The former All-Star went 3-for-9 with a double and a stolen base in a three-game rehab assignment at Double-A Somerset. Chisholm batted .181 with seven homers, 17 RBIs and 39 strikeouts in 30 games before landing on the 10-day IL. Cruz, 35, went on the 15-day IL on May 22 with shoulder inflammation. The right-hander is 1-2 with a 2.66 ERA and two saves in 21 appearances out of the bullpen this season. Weaver, 31, is 1-1 with a 1.05 ERA and eight saves in 24 relief appearances this season. He has struck out 24 and walked seven in 25 2/3 innings. The 27-year-old de los Santos has no decisions and a 3.00 ERA in 10 relief appearances for the Yankees this season. Vivas, 24, made his MLB debut on May 2 and batted .156 with one homer and four RBIs in 22 games for New York. Carrasco, 38, signed a one-year, $1.5 million deal with the Yankees in February and went 2-2 with a 5.91 ERA in eight games (six starts). --Field Level Media
Washington Post
3 days ago
- Business
- Washington Post
Yankees closer Luke Weaver goes on injured list with strained left hamstring
NEW YORK — Yankees closer Luke Weaver was placed on the 15-day injured list with a strained left hamstring sustained while warming up at Dodger Stadium last weekend, an injury that likely moves Devin Williams back into New York's closer's role. New York made six roster moves before Tuesday night's series opener against Cleveland, also activating infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. and right-hander Fernando Cruz from the injured list, recalling right-hander Yerry de los Santos from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, optioning infielder Jorbit Vivas to the RailRiders and designating right-hander Carlos Carrasco for assignment. Weaver wasn't able to pitch Sunday because of hamstring tightness he felt while stretching ahead of warming up to pitch the ninth inning during a 7-3 victory at Los Angeles . The 31-year-old right-hander is 1-1 with a 1.05 ERA and eight saves in nine chances. New York made the IL placement retroactive to Monday. Williams, who lost the closer's job in late April when he had an 11.25 ERA in 10 games, is 2-2 with a 6.23 ERA in 25 games, saving five games in six chances. Chisholm missed 28 games after a strained right oblique at Baltimore on June 29. He is hitting .181 with seven homers and 17 RBIs in 30 games and played three games for Double-A Somerset from May 29 to June 1. He'll move back to third, the position he played following his acquisition from Miami on July 27, and DJ LeMahieu will remain at second. LeMahieu made his season debut May 13 after recovering from a strained left calf sustained during spring training and is hitting .239 with one homer and five RBIs following a four-hit game in Sunday's 7-3 win at the Los Angeles Dodgers , his first since June 26, 2021. ___ AP MLB:
Associated Press
3 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
Yankees closer Luke Weaver goes on injured list with strained left hamstring
NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees closer Luke Weaver was placed on the 15-day injured list with a strained left hamstring sustained while warming up at Dodger Stadium last weekend, an injury that likely moves Devin Williams back into New York's closer's role. New York made six roster moves before Tuesday night's series opener against Cleveland, also activating infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. and right-hander Fernando Cruz from the injured list, recalling right-hander Yerry de los Santos from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, optioning infielder Jorbit Vivas to the RailRiders and designating right-hander Carlos Carrasco for assignment. Weaver wasn't able to pitch Sunday because of hamstring tightness he felt while stretching ahead of warming up to pitch the ninth inning during a 7-3 victory at Los Angeles. The 31-year-old right-hander is 1-1 with a 1.05 ERA and eight saves in nine chances. New York made the IL placement retroactive to Monday. Williams, who lost the closer's job in late April when he had an 11.25 ERA in 10 games, is 2-2 with a 6.23 ERA in 25 games, saving five games in six chances. Chisholm missed 28 games after a strained right oblique at Baltimore on June 29. He is hitting .181 with seven homers and 17 RBIs in 30 games and played three games for Double-A Somerset from May 29 to June 1. He'll move back to third, the position he played following his acquisition from Miami on July 27, and DJ LeMahieu will remain at second. LeMahieu made his season debut May 13 after recovering from a strained left calf sustained during spring training and is hitting .239 with one homer and five RBIs following a four-hit game in Sunday's 7-3 win at the Los Angeles Dodgers, his first since June 26, 2021. ___ AP MLB:
Newsweek
3 days ago
- Business
- Newsweek
Yankees Brutally Dump Veteran Pitcher 24 Hours After Calling Him Up From Minors
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Carlos "Cookie" Carrasco started six games for the New York Yankees this season, providing much-needed help to an injury-battered pitching staff. But with a 5.91 ERA and 2-2 record, the Yankees designated Carrasco for assignment on May 6. The 38-year-old, 16-year veteran — who was signed to a minor league deal by the Yankees before spring training but pitched his way onto the big league roster — accepted his demotion to Triple-A, but on Sunday he got the call. He would be rejoining the Yankees for their final game of a three-game set against the Los Angeles Dodgers. About 24 hours later, Carrasco was gone again. He did not get into the Sunday game against the Dodgers, and the Yankees then placed Carrasco on outright waivers, meaning he can now be claimed by any other team. NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Carlos Carrasco #59 of the New York Yankees looks on during the game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium on April 25, 2025 in New York, New... NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: Carlos Carrasco #59 of the New York Yankees looks on during the game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium on April 25, 2025 in New York, New York. More New"It seems unlikely that Carrasco will be claimed. He just cleared less than a month ago and hasn't been in great form since," explained Darragh McDonald of MLB Trade Rumors. "However, it's also theoretically possible that there's a team which has been snakebit by injuries of late and is more willing to take a chance on Carrasco now than they were just a few weeks ago." Carrasco broke into the major leagues with the Cleveland Guardians (then still known as the Indians) in 2009. In 12 seasons with Cleveland, he won 91 games against 83 losses with a 3.91 ERA. Cleveland traded him to the New York Mets, for whom he pitched from 2021 to 2023 — earning a total of $38 million over those three seasons. More MLB: Trade Idea Lets Yankees Get Rid of Carlos Carrasco For MLB-Ready Righty Prospect After he spent last season back in Cleveland, the Yankees offered the Barquisimeto, Venezuela, native a $1.3 million minor league deal for this year, which he accepted. Now, it appears that his brief, up-and-down Yankees career is over. "Not unexpectedly, Carlos Carrasco was with the Yankees for just one day as pitching depth protection and was placed on outright waivers," reported New York Post columnist Joel Sherman. "With no unexpected setbacks, the (Yankees) were lined up to activate Fernando Cruz from the IL on Tuesday." If Carrasco goes unclaimed on the waiver wire, he can elect to declare free agency, or accept another minor league assignment if the Yankees choose to offer him one. More MLB: Padres Reportedly Targeting Red Sox $3.75 Million All-Star, But Should Boston Make Trade?
New York Times
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Yankees' Ryan Yarbrough is dominating. But why does he throw like that?
Ryan Yarbrough doesn't know why he started doing it, but it feels good. The New York Yankees' 6-foot-5 pitcher begins his delivery by raising his right leg high. But as he pushes toward home plate, he does something strange. He drops his left arm and releases the ball like he's much shorter than he is. It's like he's skipping a rock across the surface of a pond. Advertisement In his mind, he's doing nothing different than anyone else. 'It is weird that I feel like I'm throwing straight over the top when in all actuality, it's not,' he said recently. What's the point of all that height if you're not going to use it? Well, Yarbrough does. And it's one of the biggest reasons he's been a surprise in a season filled with them for the first-place Yankees. Yarbrough's six-inning, one-run performance in Sunday's win over the Los Angeles Dodgers stopped the team that beat the Yankees in last year's World Series from sweeping them. It also dropped the 33-year-old's ERA to 2.08 over five starts since he left the bullpen to join the rotation May 3. When the Yankees tapped Yarbrough to make the switch, they weren't asking him for much. They just needed him to do better than Carlos Carrasco, whom he was replacing as the fifth starter. Through eight games (six starts), Carrasco had a 5.91 ERA. The bar was low. Yarbrough has hurdled it. 'It's been fun watching him toe the slab for us,' manager Aaron Boone said. Ryan Yarbrough, Nasty 77mph Changeup. 👌 — Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) June 1, 2025 Yarbrough has been among the best pitchers in baseball in several ways. Hitters aren't squaring him up. His 84.1 mph average exit velocity and his 27.3 percent hit rate put him in the 99th percentile and the 98th percentile, respectively, among all pitchers. Opponents are barreling just 3.6 percent of his pitches, placing him in the 94th percentile in that category. His time in the bullpen was solid, too. Though he had a 4.11 ERA in eight appearances, that figure was inflated by a four-run blowup in two-thirds of an inning. And Yarbrough has done it in pretty much the same way he has throughout his eight-year MLB career: by being weird. 'He's got that different angle and he's not going to light up the radar gun, but all of his pitches feel like they get on you,' second baseman DJ LeMahieu said. 'His offspeed looks extra slow. Just one of those guys who's got good stuff and he knows what he's doing out there.' Advertisement Yarbrough also features five pitches. He uses four of them almost equally, leading with his cutter (24 percent) and attacking with a sinker (23 percent), sweeper (22.6 percent) and a changeup (20.6 percent). He also mixes in a four-seamer (9.3 percent). He throws slowly, too. Really slowly. His 87.5-mph average fastball places him within just the bottom 1 percentile of the game. 'He's different than anything you face,' Boone said. The Yankees know that. So does Yarbrough, a thorn in his current team's side for the first five years of his career with the Tampa Bay Rays until 2021. Then he bounced among the Kansas City Royals, Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays before landing just before the start of spring training with the Yankees. He's always been a bit of a funky side-armer, even when he was at Old Dominion before the Seattle Mariners drafted him in the fourth round in 2014. Nobody has tried to change him. 'As far as I know,' he said. 'Nothing really stands out as (a big change). There's always the running joke of the unique lefty approaches, something like that.' Yarbrough releases the ball at an arm angle of 13 degrees, the fourth-lowest among qualified pitchers. His release point closely resembles Atlanta Braves lefty ace Chris Sale (13-degree arm angle), especially when shoulder positioning is taken into account. Sale is a lanky 6-foot-6. The Yankees seem to have made it a point to include a variety of release points by their pitchers, particularly their bullpen. The unit spans from submarine lefty Tim Hill's 23-degree release point to a bunch of high-release righties (Mark Leiter Jr., 51 degrees; Fernando Cruz and Luke Weaver, 48 degrees). 'The slot makes it a little harder to pick up from a deception aspect, with how I throw and how I hide the ball,' Yarbrough said. 'It's the reaction I've gotten from hitters I've played against. … It's one of those things where it's hard to pick up. If they can't necessarily pick up anything on you, sooner rather than later, it puts them in a tough spot. Especially when I'm able to throw enough strikes and mix speeds. It just adds an extra element.' Advertisement 'It's a funky angle for a tall guy,' Boone said. The Yankees have also worked with him on his pitches. For example, his slider is getting more spin and about three inches more horizontal break, according to Statcast. 'It's been more about game planning and understanding how everything works and moves,' he said. 'Maybe little tweaks with pitches, but nothing super crazy. Just really understanding how everything moves and really utilizing my whole arsenal.' 'It's tough to get a bead on him,' Boone said. The Yankees have no reason to believe that hitters won't continue to struggle with Yarbrough as he gets even more comfortable in the rotation. 'He's fun to watch, man,' Boone said.
