{"id":330784,"date":"2025-10-25T04:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/330784\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T04:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:48:16","slug":"yankees-news-dealing-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/330784\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees news: Dealing in the desert"},"content":{"rendered":"

MLB | Jesse Borek<\/a>: Three and a half years ago, the Yankees signed undrafted free agent Hueston Morrill. Morrill, who\u2019d played both ways in college, prefered to be a hitter. But when the Yankees thought he could transition to pitching full-time, he embraced it. After a non-descript 2024, Morrill exploded in 2025. Across the season at two levels (maxing out at Double-A), opponents hit .118 with a .398 OPS. Now, he\u2019s toiling in the Arizona Fall League. The early returns are good. 3.2 scoreless innings, though he\u2019s given up four hits and struck out none. Regardless, it\u2019s valuable reps for a Yankees relief prospect whose name we\u2019re likely to become increasingly familiar with.<\/p>\n

NJ.com | Bob Klapisch<\/a>: Perhaps the biggest house of horrors for the 2025 Yankees was the bullpen. Erratic and inconsistent, GM Brian Cashman pulled off a flurry of deadlines moves to fortify it. Some worked better than others. Given all that, the state of the \u2018pen is an incredibly important story. Klapisch takes a look, nothing that some moves are no-brainers \u2013 leaving Bednar as the closer and picking up Tim Hill\u2019s options. He notes that Devin Williams will almost certainly be too expensive after what was a very up and down season. Klapisch\u2019s main question: what to do with Luke Weaver. Give it a read. For what it\u2019s worth, I suspect we\u2019ve seen the last of one of 2024\u2019s Yankees heroes.<\/p>\n

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SNY : Phillip Martinez<\/a>: Here\u2019s an armchair General Manager\u2019s dream. The state of the Yankee payroll: long story short, after you account for projected arbitration costs (assuming no non-tenders), the Yanks sit at a hefty $229.7 million in payroll for 2026. Discerning eyes will notice that Aaron Hicks\u2019 contract is finally off the books, so that\u2019s nice. But because The Pattern demands balance, DJLM\u2019s $15 million in dead money will be sitting there. Take a look. See if you can guess the non-tenders, because there will almost certainly be some. All told, it\u2019s exceedingly probable the Yanks exceed the top tax tier for the third season in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MLB | Jesse Borek: Three and a half years ago, the Yankees signed undrafted free agent Hueston Morrill.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":330785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[164172,119781,62477,146701,5914,164169,5919,1266,164171,164170,81222,62,9144,67,132,68,2386],"class_list":{"0":"post-330784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-aaron-hicks","9":"tag-arizona-fall-league","10":"tag-bednar","11":"tag-bob-klapisch","12":"tag-devin-williams","13":"tag-hueston-morrill","14":"tag-luke-weaver","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-morrill","17":"tag-phillip-martinez","18":"tag-scoreless-innings","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-tim-hill","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115433000629179953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}