sent the 26-year-old left-hander to New York for four prospects<\/a> on Tuesday: outfielders Brendan Jones and Dillon Lewis, and infielders Dylan Jasso and Juan Matheus.<\/p>\nWeathers is the son of David Weathers, a pitcher who helped the Yankees win the 1996 World Series after he was acquired from the Marlins at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve kind of had a weird, similar paths as to how we got to New York,\u201d Ryan Weathers said.<\/p>\n
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When Ryan makes his Yankees debut, they will become the fifth father-son duo for the pinstripes, joining Yogi and Dale Berra, Clay and Cody Bellinger, Mark Leiter and Mark Leiter Jr., and Ron Davis and Ike Davis.<\/p>\n
Ryan said he was in shock when he spoke with Yankees general manager Brian Cashman and manager Aaron Boone.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just couldn\u2019t believe that the New York Yankees were a team that I could ever have a chance to play for,” he said.<\/p>\n
New York\u2019s rotation at the season’s start projects to also include Max Fried, Cam Schlittler, Will Warren and Luis Gil while Gerrit Cole and Carlos Rod\u00f3n rehab from injuries.<\/p>\n
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Weathers, 26, was 2-2 with a 3.99 ERA in eight starts last year in his second straight injury-shortened season. He missed time with a strained left flexor, made his season debut on May 14, then didn\u2019t pitch for Miami between June 7 and Sept. 11 because of a left lat strain.<\/p>\n
He was 5-6 with a 3.63 ERA over 16 starts in 2024, when he was sidelined by a strained left index finger.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the best I\u2019ve probably felt in a year-and-a-half,\u201d Weathers said. \u201cI really did a dive and worked with company on figuring out how to lengthen my lat out, lengthen my back out. We really adjusted a lot of my lifting patterns. We really adjusted my mobility and my prep work, and I think my arm is reaping the benefits right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Ryan grew up in big league clubhouses and remembered the Cincinnati Reds’ room with Ken Griffey Jr. and Joey Votto. He played pickle with Dusty Baker, Ram\u00f3n Hern\u00e1ndez, Eric Milton and Juan Castro.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of hours put in the Cincinnati Reds’ batting cages,\u201d Weathers said. \u201cI just remember Pops taking me to the field every day. I know when his arm was hurting, he\u2019d still throw me BP.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ryan was the seventh overall pick by San Diego in the 2008 amateur draft. His dad’s knowledge helped him during tough times.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhen I first started going through it and getting adversity and getting traded, he really helped me along those lines of figuring out: This is what you do with your new team. This was what you do in your day-to-day,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cSo I\u2019ve been doing mechanics since I was age 10.\u201d<\/p>\n
He has remained close with pitcher Aaron Harang, a teammate of his father who last played in 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe still texts me all the time,\u201d Weathers said. \u201cWhen I was younger, I didn\u2019t really care about pitching. I just wanted to hit bombs in the outfield, so I didn\u2019t really think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\nRonald Blum, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Ryan Weathers was steamed when he found out he was joining the New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[173193,49,8293,48,17947,3983,8298,173192,17949,173195,173194,17950,75064,32928,1517,13648,6390,462,3430,3980,145903,14556,82,8306],"class_list":["post-411869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-harang","tag-ca","tag-cam-schlittler","tag-canada","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-david-weathers","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-ike-davis","tag-joey-votto","tag-luis-gil","tag-mark-leiter","tag-mark-leiter-jr","tag-marlins","tag-max-fried","tag-miami","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-ryan-weathers","tag-san-diego","tag-sports","tag-will-warren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}