Ryan Yarbrough Is Already Nearing Point of No Return With Yankees (and His Replacements Are Clear)
Ryan Yarbrough Is Already Nearing Point of No Return With Yankees (and His Replacements Are Clear)
Ryan Yarbrough's time with the New York Yankees could be coming to an end.Joseph Randazzo|
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New York YankeesRyan Yarbrough is a soft contact machine. That is likely one of the reasons why the New York Yankees have stuck with him so deep into the season.
Having both him and Paul Blackburn as long-relief options was a head-scratching decision heading into 2026. Few teams carry two in their bullpen, but you could find some justification in the idea that "every inning counts" during the 162-game season.
Now that the dog days of summer are here, and reinforcements should be headed to the bullpen, there is less reason for him to be on the roster. At some point, the Yankees will need to cut Yarbrough loose.
If Yarbrough is on the roster to eat up innings, the Yankees have two guys in the wings who will soon serve that purpose. Both have a higher ceiling and a stronger future with the club as well.
The two options to replace Yarbrough
The first is rookie Carlos Lagrange, the converted starter who can hit triple digits with regularity. Granted, Lagrange's timetable may be pushed back a bit if he keeps having outings like the one he had over the weekend, where he allowed five earned runs in 0.2 innings.
Once he has a few scoreless innings under his belt, though, the Yankees are going to bring him up. His stuff is just too tantalizing to keep in the minors.
Even if Lagrange won't be up in the near future, he isn't the only multi-inning option that the Yankees can go with. Max Fried has already started throwing, and once he's back, it seems like Ryan Weathers will be relegated to the bullpen. It makes sense since he is coming off a string of injury-laden seasons, and this is his first full workload in a few years.
Aaron Boone already hinted at Weathers being an option out of the bullpen earlier this month, too. He has had some rough starts in June, but looks to have stabilized himself in his last few starts. That's including Monday, where Weathers' defense let him down. Just two of the five runs he gave up were earned. Outside of that blemish, in his last 14 innings, he has struck out 17 and walked just four batters.
A 77th percentile strikeout rate and 75th percentile walk rate should play in the bullpen. Weathers can also ramp up the velocity if he needs to. He hit triple digits in spring training, and while he hasn't done that much during the regular season to pace himself during starts, he has hit as high as 98 and 99 mph.
Yarbrough's future
The Yankees may not need to designate Yarbrough for assignment outright when the time comes. With the way the Wild Card hunt is structured now, there are a bunch of teams still in it that could use his services.
Between the NL and AL, 10 teams are within five games of taking a Wild Card spot. Then you have your six division leaders, as well as the six that do have a Wild Card spot.
Despite an ugly recent run in which he has allowed 8 ER over 12.2 IP, Yarbrough is still the soft-contact king of baseball. Yarbrough has a 99th-percentile average exit velocity, a 97th-percentile barrel rate, and a 99th-percentile hard-hit rate.
Some teams could be intrigued by that. It's the baseball version of "I can fix him."
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JOSEPH RANDAZZOJoe Randazzo is a reference librarian who lives on Long Island. When he’s not behind a desk offering assistance to his patrons, he writes about the Yankees for Yankees On SI. Follow him as @YankeeLibrarian on X and Instagram.
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Add The California Post on GoogleRipped from the headlines of the satirical Babylon Bee:
A DEI extravaganza to mark the 250th birthday of the USA!
Oh wait.
That’s not the Bee; it’s actually a thing: San Diego County plans an identity-politics spectacular this July 4.
Wanna go?
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The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted this year to align the county’s Independence Day event with “equity and racial justice” goals.
Per a social media post from the mayor of El Cajon, the three-hour program will feature: a “tribal intimate blessing welcoming to land”; a tribal invocation; the American and black national anthems; local tribal community stories; Latino community stories; Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander community stories; LGBTQIA+ community stories; and black and African community stories.
Whew. It’s exhausting just to read about.
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But more to the point: all of this … on July 4 of America’s 250th year? What message does the county of San Diego mean to send?
Not one that elevates fun, family, unity, respect, gratitude and patriotism — traditional Independence Day fare.
Instead, the county stoops to woke pandering.
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Extolling favored groups on the nation’s birthday is e pluribus unum in reverse: ex uno, plura.
It’s divisive. It’s ill-timed. And it’s disrespectful to the nation, to its founding values and to the US Armed Forces who have fought and sometimes died to guard the rights the grievance crowd takes for granted.
In the very recent past, Americans of all stars and stripes could agree on some things, including the Fourth of July and its fun family patriotic fare.
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Remember the iconic jingle, “We love baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet?”
Those were days when Americans united around major holidays, around a shared heritage of freedom and around pride in a country that’s the freest in the world.
No longer.
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These days, the scolds can’t be satisfied, the socialists win elections from New York to Colorado (unthinkable not long ago) and divisive Fourth of July programs emerge in once-moderate places like San Diego County.
Increasingly, elected officials want to shove a thumb in the eye of the nation, its founding, its traditions and its glory.
Enough.
Note to the radicals who rush to tear America down on perhaps its most cherished holiday:
Stop being petulant about losing national elections.
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Love your country even if you don’t love its current leader.
Teach, respect and appreciate the values of 1776: liberty, individual rights, equality, limited government and the rule of law.
Ditch the woke bilge and restore the picnics, US flags and fireworks.
Restore e pluribus unum.
Skip the lecture series and let the people have fun.
And a bonus memo to San Diego County voters: Remember this farce next election.
Just maybe, in another grand American tradition, you’ll do this:
Throw the bums out.
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