OAKLAND — With a bullpen that has taken greater than its fair proportion of hits over the past month and a half, the Yankees added veteran left-hander Anthony Banda Sunday morning. The 29-year-old was within the Mariners’ minor league system, however opted out of his contract and the Yankees signed him and introduced him to Oakland for Sunday’s sequence finale towards the A’s on the Coliseum.
“Anthony had an out in his deal with Seattle. So it’s somebody that I know our front office had their eye on here for a little bit,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone stated. “He’s made some mechanical adjustments that hopefully are good ones for him and hopefully it can serve us well too.”
Banda was 1-1 with a 5.88 ERA in 30 video games with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Toronto Blue Jays this season. In 78 profession video games, together with six begins, over components of six massive league seasons with the Diamondbacks (2017), Rays (2018-20), Mets (2021), Pirates (2021-22) and Blue Jays (2022), Banda has gone 7-6 with one save and a 5.43 ERA. He has 102 strikeouts and 39 walks in 111 innings pitched.
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“He’ll get in there when there’s a matchup that we like,” Boone stated. “He’s kind of dropped his arm angle a little bit which has hopefully added a little bit of deception to what he’s doing and we’ll see what we have.”
For a bullpen that had been such a giant a part of the Yankees’ first-half success, there was a number of change within the second half. Boone sees it as a chance for younger guys like Ron Marinaccio and even Banda, who has bounced round a bit.
“I go back to a lot of really good things happening with a lot of guys down there. It’s now trying to see guys go grab and earn different roles in different spots and hopefully we get ourselves in a good situation moving forward here,” Boone stated. “Hopefully [Banda’s] a guy that can add to some of that depth.”
The Yankees have misplaced Aroldis Chapman (an infection) and Nestor Cortes (groin pressure) already on this journey. Clarke Schmidt needed to be pulled out of the bullpen to begin in Cortes’ spot on Sunday. Chapman went on the IL Saturday with an an infection after getting a brand new tattoo this week.
The Yankees are already with out Chad Green (Tommy John surgical procedure) and Michael King (fractured elbow) for the remainder of the season. To make room on the 40-man roster, the Yankees transferred Luis Gil, who had Tommy John surgical procedure earlier this 12 months, to the 60-day IL.
Clay Holmes, who has been on the IL for the final two weeks with decrease again tightness, is predicted to be activated on Monday. They must make one other transfer to get him again on the energetic 26-man roster.
The solely excellent news the Yankees lastly acquired out of their bullpen this week is that Chapman, whose an infection within the leg was getting worse after he arrived on the ballpark on Thursday, was responding to remedy.
“It actually seemed better last night when we got back [to the hotel]. The trainers report on him and when I talked to him this morning it was better,” Boone stated. “He’s gonna come in. He should be here in a little bit. And we’ll see what we have there, but it seems like it is improving actually.”
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