{"id":145970,"date":"2026-02-26T11:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145970\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T11:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:41:12","slug":"son-ryan-can-unlock-full-potential-with-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145970\/","title":{"rendered":"Son Ryan can unlock full potential with Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 When the Yankees acquired Ryan Weathers last month, the left-hander did not have to look far to find out <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/14\/sports\/ryan-weathers-opens-up-to-the-post-about-being-a-yankee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">about playing in New York<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Weathers had already heard plenty of stories growing up from his dad, former MLB reliever David Weathers, but now they would mean a little more from the man who was a Yankee from 1996-97 and helped win a World Series in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s not a better place to play in Major League Baseball than playing for the New York Yankees, the greatest franchise ever,\u201d David Weathers, who like his son was traded from the Marlins to the Yankees, said Wednesday night before arriving at Steinbrenner Field to watch Ryan make his spring debut.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a personal standpoint, I understand the pressure that comes with playing in New York and all those types of things. But also understand how unbelievably \u2014 me being there for the last part of \u201996 and the first part of \u201997, and not doing great, but being part of a \u201996 World Series team and pitching that postseason, just that little short time put me on the map, so to speak. It was incredible. I\u2019m excited for him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 When the Yankees acquired Ryan Weathers last month, the left-hander did not have to look far&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,20,9,24,321,63,319,428,55941,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-145970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-spring-training","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}