{"id":27334,"date":"2025-01-20T07:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T07:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=27334"},"modified":"2025-01-20T07:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T07:38:17","slug":"trade-news-yankees-predicted-to-sign-65-5-million-reliever-for-sick-big-three-in-bullpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=27334","title":{"rendered":"TRADE NEWS: Yankees Predicted to Sign $65.5 Million Reliever For \u2018Sick\u2019 Big Three in Bullpen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees have focused on their bullpen this offseason,\u00a0adding two-time All-Star closer\u00a0Devin Williams to close games and moving Luke Weaver, who was a revelation in the ninth-inning role down the stretch last season, back to the eighth inning.<\/p>\n<p>But they could go even further, with two\u00a0top Yankee bloggers and podcasters\u00a0now predicting the Bronx Bombers could set up a seemingly unbeatable back end of the bullpen by adding one more free agent reliever. That pitcher would be\u00a0left-hander Tanner Scott\u00a0who notched a career-high 22 saves in 2024 with two teams \u2014 18 for the Miami Marlins then another four down the stretch after being\u00a0traded on July 30\u00a0to the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"imageBox\">\n<div class=\"innerBox ar23-innerBox\"><picture class=\"mapping-embed\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2567886\/free-agent-reliever-tanner-scott.webp?w=790&amp;f=90f8ee85a1ffe3c8451923d8776ce910 1x\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 992px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2567886\/free-agent-reliever-tanner-scott.jpg?w=790&amp;f=90f8ee85a1ffe3c8451923d8776ce910 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 992px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2567886\/free-agent-reliever-tanner-scott.webp?w=900&amp;f=28b7ce5c1dba02867943eb1e9b203009 1x\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2567886\/free-agent-reliever-tanner-scott.jpg?w=900&amp;f=28b7ce5c1dba02867943eb1e9b203009 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2567886\/free-agent-reliever-tanner-scott.webp?w=790&amp;f=90f8ee85a1ffe3c8451923d8776ce910 1x\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2567886\/free-agent-reliever-tanner-scott.jpg?w=790&amp;f=90f8ee85a1ffe3c8451923d8776ce910 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2567886\/free-agent-reliever-tanner-scott.webp?w=450&amp;f=e31c6a168eb3e10b77a42e01b8e00d6e 1x\" type=\"image\/webp\" media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2567886\/free-agent-reliever-tanner-scott.jpg?w=450&amp;f=e31c6a168eb3e10b77a42e01b8e00d6e 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2567886\/free-agent-reliever-tanner-scott.webp?w=1200&amp;f=fab3b7e442773d3afe123423f2976c5a\" type=\"image\/webp\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i2567886\" class=\"mapping-embed imgPhoto\" src=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2567886\/free-agent-reliever-tanner-scott.jpg?w=1200&amp;f=fab3b7e442773d3afe123423f2976c5a\" alt=\"Free Agent reliever Tanner Scott\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption ar23-caption\"><span id=\"short-cap-description\" class=\"cap\">SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA \u2013 SEPTEMBER 02: Tanner Scott #66 of the San Diego Padres pitches against the Detroit Tigers during the eighth inning at Petco Park on September 02, 2024 in San Diego, California.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit ar23-credit\">Orlando Ramirez\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With a fastball clocked as high as 97 mph, Scott is a power pitcher who,\u00a0according to Statcast statistics, ranked in the top one percent of\u00a0MLB\u00a0pitchers in preventing hard contact. Batters managed an average exit velocity of just 84.3 mph off of Scott\u2019s deliveries, and the 30-year-old southpaw allowed hard-hit balls on only 27.5 percent of the times hitters made contact in fair territory.<\/p>\n<p>Scott pitched 4 1\/3 innings in four postseason games for the Padres in 2024, allowing no runs on two hits and a walk, striking out five.<\/p>\n<p>Both the popular podcast Fireside Yankees and blog Bleeding Yankee Blue have come out strongly in favor of adding Scott to the Yankees bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Scott-Weaver-Williams trio to close out games?\u201d wrote Bleeding Yankee Blue. \u201cThat would be pure dominance. It would be sick. So, Yankees, what are you waiting for? Get on the Tanner Scott train before it leaves the station!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott is coming off of the one-year, $5.7 million contract he signed last year with the Marlins. But the sports business site\u00a0Spotrac projects his free agent market\u00a0value at just over $65.5 million across a four-year deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees have focused on their bullpen this offseason,\u00a0adding two-time All-Star closer\u00a0Devin Williams to close games and moving Luke Weaver, who was a revelation in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TRADE NEWS: Yankees Predicted to Sign $65.5 Million Reliever For \u2018Sick\u2019 Big Three in Bullpen - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=27334\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TRADE NEWS: Yankees Predicted to Sign $65.5 Million Reliever For \u2018Sick\u2019 Big Three in Bullpen - 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