{"id":51419,"date":"2025-04-10T07:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T07:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=51419"},"modified":"2025-04-10T07:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T07:37:38","slug":"yankees-urged-to-sign-8-8-million-righty-to-bump-carlos-carrasco-from-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=51419","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Urged to Sign $8.8 Million Righty to Bump Carlos Carrasco From Rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Yankees-Urged-Sign-Spencer-Turnbull-Carlos-Carrasco.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Yankees-Urged-Sign-Spencer-Turnbull-Carlos-Carrasco.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Yankees-Urged-Sign-Spencer-Turnbull-Carlos-Carrasco.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Yankees-Urged-Sign-Spencer-Turnbull-Carlos-Carrasco.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Yankees Urged to Sign $8.8 Million Righty to Bump Carlos Carrasco From Rotation\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The battered New York Yankees starting rotation is being held together with Band-Aids and glue, as the defending American League champs keep their fingers crossed that injured pitchers Clarke Schmidt and 2024 Rookie of the Year Luis Gil recover more quickly than expected. In addition to those two gaps in the five-man rotation, staff ace Gerrit Cole is sidelined for the entire 2024 season with Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Even the Yankee organization\u2019s No. 2 pitching prospect Chase Hampton, who was expected to see at least a few starts with the big club in 2025, saw his season grind to a screeching halt in Spring Training when he felt discomfort in his elbow and opted to have the Tommy John procedure immediately rather than try to pitch through it.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the Yankees \u2014 who raised their record to 7-5 with a one-run win over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday, salvaging one game of a three-game set at Comerica Park \u2014 have been forced to patch up their rotation with three pitchers they had not envisioned as 2025 starters.<\/p>\n<h2>Yankees Have 3 Starters Not Planned to be There<\/h2>\n<p>Marcus Stroman, the subject of seemingly endless trade speculation in the offseason as the Yankees tried to rid themselves of his $18 million salary after he collapsed down the stretch in 2024 and was left off the team\u2019s playoff roster, has now made two starts in 2025, getting shelled to the tune of seven runs in 8 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s rookie Will Warren, formerly the organization\u2019s top pitching prospect but now certified big leaguer who has managed to surrender six earned runs in nine innings over a pair of starts.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Yankees have been forced to award a starting rotation spot to 38-year-old Carlos Carrasco, a 16-year veteran who came to the Yankees on a minor league contract in Spring Training after pitching the previous season with the Cleveland Guardians, compiling a 3-10 won-loss record and 5.64 ERA in 103 2\/3 innings over 21 starts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe New York Yankees\u2018 starting rotation this season has resembled a leaky boat more than a finely tuned engine,\u201d wrote Andres Chavez of Empire Sports Media on Wednesday. \u201cCarlos Carrasco, once a bright spot in spring training, has been shelled to the tune of a 7.71 ERA, the worst of the bunch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Empire Sports Media<\/em> founder Alexander Wilson emphasized how disappointing Carrasco has been.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 38-year-old has struggled to find his footing,\u201d Wilson wrote. \u201cHis velocity has dipped below 92 mph, way down from his prime. When hitters know what\u2019s coming and aren\u2019t afraid of being blown away, it\u2019s a dangerous game \u2014 and right now, Carrasco is losing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>An Alternative to Carrasco is Available<\/h2>\n<p>But Kerry Miller of Bleacher Report came up with a solution \u2014 sign 32-year-old free agent Spencer Turnbull, one of 59 MLB free agents remaining unsigned three weeks into the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere sits Spencer Turnbull, ripe for the picking, while fans all over the country (and in Canada) try to tell their teams to do something,\u201d Miller wrote. \u201cAmong the 212 pitchers who logged at least 350 innings pitched from 2018-24, Turnbull\u2019s 3.83 FIP ranks 65th, slightly better than Jack Flaherty and slightly worse than Nathan Eovaldi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 Detroit Tigers second-round draft pick missed all of 2022 with Tommy John, and suffered a neck ailment that limited him to seven starts for the Tigers in 2023. But with the Philadelphia Phillies in 2024, Turnbull appeared to find a groove again. He started seven games and came out of the bullpen in 10 more, striking out 58 in 54 1\/3 innings, with a sterling 2.65 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2021, Turnbull threw a no-hitter agains the Seattle Mariners, Detroit\u2019s first since future Hall of Famer Justin Verlander threw the second of his three career no-nos on May 7, 2011, in Toronto against the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p>According to Miller, Turnbull\u2019s injury history does not explain why he \u201ccan\u2019t find a one-year contract while we\u2019ve got \u2026 Carlos Carrasco in the Yankees rotation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turnbull pitched for the Phillies on a one-year, $2.2 million contract, but <em>SpoTrac<\/em> predicts that he will sign for two years and $8.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Vankin JONATHAN VANKIN is an award-winning journalist and writer who now covers baseball and other sports for Heavy.com. He twice won New England Press Association awards for sports feature writing. Vankin is also the author of five nonfiction books on a variety of topics, as well as nine graphic novels including most recently &#8220;Last of the Gladiators&#8221; published by Dynamite Entertainment. More about Jonathan Vankin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The battered New York Yankees starting rotation is being held together with Band-Aids and glue, as the defending American League champs keep their fingers crossed that injured pitchers Clarke Schmidt and 2024 Rookie of the Year Luis Gil recover more quickly than expected. 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