{"id":974069,"date":"2026-08-01T19:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T19:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/974069\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T19:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T19:05:12","slug":"yankees-trade-camilo-doval-to-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/974069\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Trade Camilo Doval To Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"

1:23pm:<\/strong> The Yankees are acquiring catcher Omar Alfonzo<\/a><\/strong> and outfielder Luis Cruz<\/a><\/strong> in the deal, Francys Romero of BeisbolFR.com reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1:17pm:<\/strong> The Pirates and Yankees are in agreement on a trade that will send right-handed reliever Camilo Doval<\/a><\/strong> from New York to Pittsburgh in exchange for two prospects, reports Jeff Passan of ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Doval, 29, is being paid $6.1MM this season. There\u2019s about $1.837MM of that sum yet to be paid out. Joel Sherman of the New York Post reports<\/a> that the Pirates are taking on $750K of the remaining salary. The Yankees, then, are sending about $1.086MM to help facilitate the trade. This is Doval\u2019s second season of arbitration eligibility. He\u2019s under club control through the 2027 season.<\/p>\n

The hard-throwing Doval came to the Yankees from the Giants at last year\u2019s trade deadline. He\u2019s had an up-and-down tenure in the Bronx and has seemed like a possible change-of-scenery candidate throughout the season. Doval is a clearly talented reliever \u2014 a 2023 All-Star who\u2019s saved 109 games and tallied 25 holds to this point in his career. However, he\u2019s proven to be a tough fit at Yankee Stadium due to struggles against left-handed opponents who\u2019ve capitalized on the Yankee Stadium\u2019s notoriously short right-field porch.<\/p>\n

Doval has a 7.08 ERA and five homers allowed in 20 1\/3 innings at home this season, compared to a 1.86 ERA and one homer allowed in 19 1\/3 frames on the road. He\u2019s held righties to an awful .143\/.231\/.247 batting line but been tagged for a .360\/.425\/.573 line when facing left-handed batters. There\u2019s more to those struggles than his home park, but the dimensions of Yankee Stadium have clearly exacerbated that susceptibility to left-handed opponents.<\/p>\n

Looking beyond the 2026 results and home\/road splits, Doval is the type of late-inning, power arm the Pirates have coveted. He\u2019s averaging a blistering 98.6 mph on his sinker and 98.8 mph on his cutter \u2014 his two most frequently used offerings. A slider that averages 88.8 mph is Doval\u2019s go-to breaking pitch, though he\u2019s mixed in a very occasional changeup that sits 94.6 mph for the first time this season. It\u2019s very much a show-me offering, having been thrown at just a 3.4% clip.<\/p>\n

That power sinker leads to one of the game\u2019s highest ground-ball rates. Doval is sporting a 57.3% mark in that regard this season and peaked at 60% in 2024. He\u2019s seen a dip in strikeouts this year, with a roughly league-average 21.9% mark and a 10.5% swinging-strike rate \u2014 both career-low marks. However, Doval punched out just under 30% of his opponents in four-plus seasons with the Giants. His command isn\u2019t great, as evidenced by a career 11.2% walk rate, but he\u2019s sitting at a more manageable 10.1% mark in 2026.<\/p>\n

All of the pieces are there for Doval to be a dominant force in the late innings, but it hasn\u2019t fully clicked in either San Francisco or the Bronx. The Pirates are placing a bet on his power arsenal, immense ground-ball capabilities and a change of scenery. Doval figures to slide into the closer\u2019s mix with the Bucs, though it\u2019s certainly possible they add another arm before Monday afternoon\u2019s deadline. The bullpen has been an Achilles heel throughout the season, and Doval alone isn\u2019t likely to turn that around.<\/p>\n

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