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Yankees left-hander Ryan Weathers\u00a0walked off the mound in the fourth inning of Saturday\u2019s game against the\u00a0Toronto Blue Jays, and by the fifth inning the Yankees announced the diagnosis for Weathers..<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Yankees announced, \u201cRyan Weathers left the game with left forearm discomfort and will undergo imaging today.\u201d<\/p>\n
The timing is not exactly ideal. New York is locked in a tight AL East race, and Weathers had quietly turned into one of the rotation\u2019s most reliable arms during the stretch run.<\/p>\n
Weathers left after his final pitch to\u00a0Myles Straw, exiting without a warmup toss and walking off alongside a trainer, according to\u00a0Yankees beat reporter Bryan Hoch.\u00a0Yerry de los Santos\u00a0entered in relief.<\/p>\n
Weathers took the mound sitting at 5-7 with a\u00a03.56 ERA over a career-high\u00a0134 innings across 24 starts this season, according to\u00a0MLB<\/em>.com<\/em>. He had been especially sharp lately, tossing 7 1\/3 innings of one-run ball against this same Toronto club on August 16 and allowing just three earned runs across his previous 31.2 innings, a stretch that pushed his ERA below 3.00.<\/p>\n That surge followed a mechanical adjustment. Weathers scaled back a four-seam fastball that had been getting hit hard and leaned harder on his sinker, slider and changeup to generate more ground balls, a shift that helped stabilize a season that opened shakily.<\/p>\n The left-hander has dealt with recurring arm and lower-body injuries in recent seasons, including a finger strain that sidelined him roughly three months in 2024 and separate forearm and lat issues with the Marlins that limited him to just eight starts in 2025. That injury history adds weight to Saturday\u2019s early exit, with the Yankees\u2019 medical staff now left to determine whether this is another setback or something more minor. A club update on Weathers\u2019 status is expected in the coming days.<\/p>\n A lengthy absence would strain a rotation already thin on healthy arms.\u00a0Gerrit Cole, Cam Schlittler and Carlos Rod\u00f3n, back from elbow inflammation, have recently carried the bulk of the workload alongside Weathers and\u00a0Will Warren. Max Fried remains on the\u00a015-day injured list with an elbow\u00a0bone bruise, and\u00a0Clarke Schmidt, still working back from elbow and UCL trouble, is expected to be limited to relief work even once healthy.<\/p>\n New York entered Saturday at 73-55, sitting second in the American League East, with a playoff berth squarely in view. Losing a starter who turned into a dependable mid-rotation piece would test a staff that has already absorbed multiple pitching injuries this season. If Weathers lands on the injured list, manager Aaron Boone\u2019s short-term options include leaning further on Warren or calling up a Triple-A arm such as\u00a0Elmer Rodr\u00edguez\u00a0or\u00a0Brendan Beck\u00a0for a spot start.<\/p>\n New York acquired Weathers from the\u00a0Miami Marlins\u00a0in a January trade, sending outfielders Dillon Lewis and Brendan Jones along with infielders Dylan Jasso and Juan Matheus to Miami, according to\u00a0the team\u2019s official trade announcement.<\/p>\n Weathers was the seventh overall pick in the 2018 MLB Draft, by the\u00a0San Diego Padres, and he made his major league debut during the 2020 postseason as one of the youngest pitchers to appear in a playoff game. He is the son of former big league pitcher David Weathers, who spent parts of two seasons with the Yankees in the 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Getty Yankees left-hander Ryan Weathers\u00a0walked off the mound in the fourth inning of Saturday\u2019s game against the\u00a0Toronto Blue Jays, and by the fifth inning the Yankees announced… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"\n<\/p>\n
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