Side-arming left-hander Ryan Yarbrough and the New York Yankees have finalized their $2.5 million, one-year contract. Yarbrough can earn an additional $250,000 in…<\/p>\n
NEW YORK(AP) \u2014 Side-arming left-hander Ryan Yarbrough and the New York Yankees finalized their $2.5 million, one-year contract on Friday.<\/p>\n
Yarbrough can earn an additional $250,000 in performance bonuses. He gives the Yankees a possible starter to join Max Fried, Cam Schlittler, Luis Gil and Will Warren in the rotation early in the season while Gerrit Cole<\/a> and Carlos Rod\u00f3n<\/a> recover from surgery.<\/p>\n Yarbrough, who turns 34 on Dec. 31, agreed in March to a $2 million, one-year contract, one day after he was released from a minor league deal with Toronto, and he earned $150,000 in performance bonuses based on innings.<\/p>\n He went 3-1 with a 4.36 ERA in eight starts and 11 relief appearances, striking out 55 and walking 19 in 64 innings. Yarbrough did not pitch for the Yankees between June 18 and Sept. 5 because of a strained right oblique. He was left off the roster for postseason series against Boston and Toronto.<\/p>\n An eight-year major league veteran, Yarbrough is 56-41 with a 4.22 ERA in 76 starts and 139 relief appearances for Tampa Bay (2018-22), Kansas City (2023), the Los Angeles Dodgers (2023-24), Toronto (2024) and the Yankees.<\/p>\n