Ryan Yarbrough agreed to a $2 million, one-year contract with the New York Yankees on Monday, a day after he was launched from a minor league cope with the Toronto Blue Jays.
A 33-year-old left-hander with a slight sidearm supply, Yarbrough can earn a further $250,000 in efficiency bonuses for innings.
“There were other teams, but this was by far the team I was most interested in,” he was quoted as saying by The Athletic. “I’ve heard a lot from the pitching side (about) what they’ve been able to do with guys. That was exciting and intriguing to me.”
Yarbrough is 53-40 with a 4.21 ERA in 68 begins and 128 aid appearances over seven seasons with Tampa Bay (2018-22), Kansas Metropolis (2023), the Dodgers (2023-24), who acquired him on July 30 within the commerce that despatched outfielder Kevin Kiermaier to Los Angeles. He was 5-2 with a 3.19 ERA in 44 aid appearances final season.
Yarbrough throws a sinker (28.7% of his pitches final season), curveball (27.5%), four-seam fastball that averaged 86.7 mph (18.4%), changeup (15.5%) and cutter (9.9%).
Yarbrough agreed to a minor league cope with Toronto on Feb. 21 and had a 4.05 ERA in 6 2/3 innings over 4 spring coaching appearances, placing out eight and strolling one.
AL Rookie of the 12 months Luis Gil, a right-hander sidelined by a strained proper lat muscle, was positioned on the 60-day injured checklist.
