{"id":176881,"date":"2026-04-26T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176881\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:24:08","slug":"yankees-option-starter-luis-gil-to-triple-a-scranton-wilkes-barre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176881\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees option starter Luis Gil to Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following a rough start against the Astros<\/a> on Sunday afternoon in which he surrendered six runs on five hits and three walks in four innings including a pair of early two-run homers, Luis Gil<\/a> has been demoted to Triple-A Scranton Wilkes\/Barre. It is the second time this season he has been optioned to the RailRiders this season after getting sent down out of spring training when the Yankees<\/a>\u2019 schedule allowed for a four-man rotation for the first two weeks. He must remain there for a minimum of 15 days, meaning the earliest he can be called up is May 11th.<\/p>\n

The move comes as no surprise given the impending returns of Carlos Rod\u00f3n<\/a> and Gerrit Cole<\/a> from elbow surgery rehab and Gil\u2019s poor form to start the campaign. Although he appeared to right the ship with 6.1 scoreless innings against the Red Sox<\/a> at the start of the week, this latest stinker means he is 1-2 in four starts with a 6.05 ERA, 8.43 FIP, -0.4 fWAR, and more walks (11) than strikeouts (9).<\/p>\n

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Gil\u2019s fastball velocity is still about two mph below his AL Rookie of the Year campaign in 2024. Even more than the velocity, he hasn\u2019t show the ability to command any of his pitches. This means his walk rate is creeping toward a career worst while also giving up almost three home runs per nine innings. He would certainly be served by an extended period to work on his mechanics in a lower pressure environment. As David Cone mentioned on the latest broadcast, Gil is throwing from a lower arm slot and cross firing instead of striding toward home plate, and you wonder how much he is continuing to compensate for the serious lat injury that cost him more than half of 2025.<\/p>\n

That being said, it was always inevitable that Gil\u2019s name would be the first called for a potential demotion out of the starting rotation as Rod\u00f3n and Cole near their returns. Rod\u00f3n is the nearer of the two to his season debut after an offseason procedure to remove bone chips from his throwing elbow. He tossed 4.1 scoreless innings with four strikeouts in his rehab start with the High-A Hudson Valley Renegades on Friday. He will likely require at least a couple more rehab appearances after throwing 65 pitches, but could theoretically be built up to join the major league team before Gil\u2019s option window is up. Ryan Yarbrough<\/a> could also make a spot-start if needed.<\/p>\n

The Yankees are taking it more cautiously with the final stages of Cole\u2019s Tommy John rehab. He has been up and down in his pair of rehab starts to date and will likely be a month behind Rod\u00f3n\u2019s timetable.<\/p>\n

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Going forward, it is hard to envision what Gil\u2019s role could be on the major league roster. Will Warren<\/a> and Ryan Weathers<\/a> are clearly ahead of him in the rotation pecking order, and assuming health, one of that pair will have to be displaced once Cole returns. Gil\u2019s issues with walks and the long ball make him a less than ideal candidate for the bullpen. And even then, it\u2019s difficult to see him displacing Brent Headrick<\/a> or Jake Bird<\/a> at the moment while Yarbrough and Paul Blackburn<\/a> do not have any minor league options remaining and would have to be DFA\u2019d if Gil were to take their spot. For now, the focus for Gil should be to keep his head down and get his delivery right in the minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a rough start against the Astros on Sunday afternoon in which he surrendered six runs on five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[79092,70369,79090,51797,56349,51796,51891,79091,57203,76284,178,180,179,79093,59203,42344],"class_list":{"0":"post-176881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-brent-headrick","9":"tag-carlos-rodon","10":"tag-gerrit-cole","11":"tag-jake-bird","12":"tag-luis-gil","13":"tag-paul-blackburn","14":"tag-red-sox","15":"tag-ryan-weathers","16":"tag-ryan-yarbrough","17":"tag-scoreless-innings","18":"tag-scranton","19":"tag-scranton-headlines","20":"tag-scranton-news","21":"tag-the-astros","22":"tag-will-warren","23":"tag-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}