{"id":319217,"date":"2025-11-28T20:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/319217\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T20:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:06:07","slug":"yankees-re-sign-michael-arias-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/319217\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Re-Sign Michael Arias To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankees are bringing back right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=arias-001mic&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Arias<\/a> on a minor league deal, according to his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/michael-arias-683522?stats=career-r-pitching-minors&amp;year=2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MLB.com transactions log<\/a>. New York acquired the reliever in a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/01\/yankees-acquire-michael-arias.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">trade<\/a> with the Cubs last offseason after Chicago designated him for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Arias put together a strong season across several minor league levels in the Yankees\u2019 system, posting a 2.73 ERA with a 27.1% strikeout rate. While he began the year in the Florida Complex League, the righty didn\u2019t pile up stats against overmatched competition. Arias did his best work at Double-A, pushing his strikeout rate over 30% and limiting hitters to a .205 batting average.<\/p>\n<p>Control is always going to be the question with Arias. He compiled his \u201cbest\u201d walk rate this past season, but it was still an unsatisfying 12.8% mark. Arias has racked up 152 walks over 211 2\/3 professional innings. The struggles with walks make sense, given Arias was drafted as a shortstop and converted to pitching in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto signed Arias as an international free agent in 2018. He was released before appearing with the team and latched on with the Cubs in 2021. Arias worked primarily as a starter through 2023, reaching High-A. He began the 2024 campaign as a reliever in Double-A. He recorded 24 innings with a solid 3.75 ERA at that level, then moved up to Triple-A. Arias scuffled to a 5.45 ERA over 33 appearances with Iowa. He walked 36 opposing hitters in 36 1\/3 innings. Chicago DFAed Arias in January.<\/p>\n<p>The infielder-turned-reliever is still only 24 years old. His relative lack of pitching experience suggests there\u2019s still time to clean up the control problems. FanGraphs <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fangraphs.com\/chicago-cubs-top-37-prospects\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ranked<\/a> Arias at 11th in the Cubs\u2019 farm system at the end of the 2024 season. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/prospects\/2024\/cubs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MLB.com<\/a> had him at 14th in 2024. Arias\u2019 strikeout numbers and three-pitch arsenal could allow him to function as an effective multi-inning reliever in the early <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/loaisjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jonathan Loaisiga<\/a> mold. He\u2019ll have to take a big step forward in the command department to become a major-league asset, though.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Dave Nelson, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees are bringing back right-hander Michael Arias on a minor league deal, according to his MLB.com transactions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[163500,363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-319217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-michael-arias","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}