later debunked<\/a> \u2014 that claimed he was part of a trade the San Diego Padres had rejected from the Yankees leading up to the deadline, which was the next night.<\/p>\nThe supposed deal? It was Warren heading to San Diego for lefty reliever Adrian Morejon. The report quickly went viral.<\/p>\n
Lending it possible legitimacy:\u00a0The Yankees seemed to need a late-inning arm such as Morejon (2.89 ERA, 54 games), who as an impending free agent might have been someone San Diego would trade.<\/p>\n
But Warren was glad the Padres had apparently said no.<\/p>\n
\u201cPhew,\u201d Warren texted back to his wife. \u201cClose call.\u201d<\/p>\n
Warren did not want to leave the Yankees, who drafted him in 2021 and helped him develop into a league-average (and still improving) starting pitcher. In 22 starts this season, he has a 4.18 ERA and an 8-6 record.<\/p>\n
But something tugged at Warren at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefinitely,\u201d he told The Athletic on Sunday, \u201cwhen you read it, I was like, no way. They didn\u2019t think I was good enough? That\u2019s how I took it at first.\u201d<\/p>\n
Less than 12 hours later, however, The Athletic reported, citing a team source, that the trade proposal had never happened. The source spoke on\u00a0condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing deliberations.<\/p>\n
Then general manager Brian Cashman said the purported Warren-for-Morejon proposal \u201cwasn\u2019t true\u201d during a post-deadline conference call with reporters last Monday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a lot of noise on whatever that was,\u201d Cashman said.<\/p>\n
Warren remembered the reactions of some of his teammates, who were glad he stayed. He said he walked up to fellow starter Cam Schlittler and jokingly said, \u201cWhoa, I was almost gone there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Warren said the whole ordeal didn\u2019t bother him.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince my first season,\u201d he said, \u201cI think I\u2019ve been tossed in these trade rumors like every single season. At this point, it\u2019s like, I can\u2019t do anything about it. If it happens, it happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Warren said he did not reach out to any team officials after the dust settled.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t worried about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He added that, prior to this year\u2019s deadline, he had doubted he would be traded.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was more like,\u201d he said, \u201cWhat are we going to do? Who are we getting? Who\u2019s going away?\u201d<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old had been through something similar before \u2014 and with the Padres.<\/p>\n
During the 2023 Winter Meetings, there were rumors the Padres wanted Warren as part of a trade package for star outfielder Juan Soto. It actually got to the point, Warren said, that his agent told him he was \u201cprobably\u201d going to be in the deal.<\/p>\n
But, instead, Warren was left out of the blockbuster trade. The Yankees ended up landing Soto and center fielder Trent Grisham for pitchers Michael King, Jhony Brito, Randy V\u00e1squez, Drew Thorpe and catcher Kyle Higashioka.<\/p>\n
Warren wants to stay with the Yankees as long as he can.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the only thing I know,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s really, really special because, like, (Austin) Wells, Cam. Clarke (Schmidt). George (Lombard Jr.). Ben (Rice). Spencer (Jones). We all came up with the Yankees. Even if we didn\u2019t play multiple years with each other, we were in the farm system together. So we\u2019re close. And the team we have is super tight-knit. We jell together. I think we all have extra belief in one another.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, naturally \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cI was super pumped when I wasn\u2019t leaving,\u201d Warren said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 New York Yankees starting pitcher Will Warren\u2019s phone buzzed. It was late at night on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,369,99],"class_list":["post-808964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808964","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=808964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}