{"id":199793,"date":"2026-05-22T12:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199793\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:38:09","slug":"how-yankees-are-getting-carlos-lagrange-ready-to-be-late-season-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199793\/","title":{"rendered":"How Yankees are getting Carlos Lagrange ready to be late-season factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every time Carlos Lagrange took the mound this spring, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/19\/sports\/carlos-lagrange-has-decisively-answered-his-biggest-yankees-doubts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it became a show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees\u2019 top pitching prospect quickly went from being known as the kid <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/16\/sports\/carlos-lagrange-has-a-103-mph-answer-to-aaron-judge-in-stiff-yankees-test\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who throws hard<\/a> \u2014 the consistency of which <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/05\/sports\/carlos-lagrange-has-all-the-makings-of-a-great-yankee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">impressed veterans<\/a> such as Gerrit Cole and Max Fried, among others \u2014 to being someone who <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/24\/sports\/carlos-lagrange-among-top-yankees-pitching-prospects-who-could-be-called-on-to-make-impact\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">could legitimately help<\/a> the big league club this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat he\u2019s done the last six weeks definitely made us think maybe he\u2019s closer than we think,\u201d Aaron Boone said on one of the final days of camp after the Yankees <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/19\/sports\/yankees-send-carlos-lagrange-to-minors-after-impressive-camp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">optioned the right-hander<\/a> to Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p>In the nine weeks since, Lagrange, who turns 23 on Monday, largely has been out of sight, but not out of mind, continuing his work at Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre to try to put himself in a position to impact the Yankees at some point this season. Whether that is in the rotation, should a need arise, or in the bullpen, where a need is already clear, remains to be seen, though the latter seems more likely to get him to The Bronx this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost every time Carlos Lagrange took the mound this spring, it became a show. The Yankees\u2019 top pitching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[84193,68437,88519,66367,1423,4559,88520,178,180,179,726,42299],"class_list":["post-199793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-aaron-boone","tag-anthony-volpe","tag-inside-the-yankees","tag-jose-caballero","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199793","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=199793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}