The Yankees announced that they have selected the contract of left-hander Nick Ramirez while righty Greg Weissert has been optioned in a corresponding move. The club already had a vacancy on their 40-man roster when right-hander Colten Brewer was designated for assignment a couple of weeks ago. Bryan Hoch of MLB.com announced the promotion of Ramirez prior to the official announcement.
Ramirez, 33, pitched in the majors from 2019 to 2021, getting into 64 games between the Tigers and Padres in those years. He logged 110 2/3 innings with a 4.55 ERA, 20.4% strikeout rate, 9.5% walk rate and 46.1% ground ball rate. He was outrighted by the Padres towards the end of the 2021 season and became a free agent at season’s end. After signing a minor league deal with the Mariners going into 2022, he posted a 2.93 ERA in 53 Triple-A appearances but didn’t get back into the big leagues.
The Yanks signed Ramirez to a minor league deal this winter and have seen him start out well, with a 1.74 ERA through 10 1/3 Triple-A innings. He surely won’t sustain a .179 batting average on balls in play, but that number could be on the low side due to a strong 60.7% ground ball rate. He’ll give the club a second left-handed option in the bullpen alongside Wandy Peralta. Ramirez still has a couple of options and can be send back down to the minors when a fresh arm is needed as the season goes along.
He surely won’t sustain a .179 batting average on balls in play.
No he won’t, and stop calling him Shirley.
I keep taking my wife out for dinner; but she keeps finding her way home.(drum roll…)
Can’t believe this guy is still in the majors. Drafted in the 4th round out of college in 2011 as a position player. Had quad-A written all over him and then switched to pitching. Putting on the pinstripes at age 33. Sometimes life throws you curveballs and sometimes the curveballs throw you.
Ramirez seems to be one of the better call-up options: He has some MLB experience, wasn’t hit horribly hard there, provides left-handed pitching, is obviously in good shape and can be optioned up and down if necessary.
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He is a crafty Lefty that used to have reverse numbers due to screwball type change. Can pitch every day in low leverage situations. Yanks need to start scoring some runs!
No more messing around, Nick Ramirez has been unleashed.
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Yanks R bottom feeding, where’s all there over hyped pitching prospects … ‘surely’ they could promote there next up n coming future ace like Banuelos, Skaggs, Hensley, Brackman, Bleich, Taylor, etc, makes u pine 4 joba
Or maybe they have a lot of injuries. But don’t let me interrupt your ranting.
Don’t be mad@ me that the great mighty ny Yankees R bargain bin hunting, cashman is prob on phone w/Dbacks right now trying 2not overpay 4mad bum
Yankees haven’t been great and mighty for 15 years. Have you been living under a rock?
Why bother with talk like that? Pick another team and I can show you their failed pitching prospects. Finding good pitching is like panning for gold; you draft, sign international prospects, and coach them up. Some get hurt, and some just never make it based on how they progress. If you don’t want to acknowledge that then fine.
BMI = 29.5 The perfect Yankee. A load.
I miss Steve Hamilton.
Death, taxes, and whyhazee showing up out of nowhere to take a dump in a Yankee thread. Can’t make this stuff up.
You’re ongoing obsession with both BMI, a comically outdated system, and the Yankees is incredibly sad
While you are cluelessly scratching your butt about why there are so many injuries, I’m using a comically outdated system to tell you why.
Players have unnecessarily bulked themselves up, reflected in their BMI increase. I’m not projecting cause and effect but rather correlation.
If you look at the great Yankee athletes of the PED enhanced championship years, you will see the core four or core five have lower BMI than the current behemoths who seem incapable of staying on the field and prove incapable of winning championships.
I’ll leave you this info from people who are smarter than me and definitely smarter than you.
BMI (body mass index), which is based on the height and weight of a person, is an inaccurate measure of body fat content and does not take into account muscle mass, bone density, overall body composition, and racial and sex differences, say researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
I’m not using BMI as a proxy for body fat content.
What I am using it for is the relationship between height and weight, which is it’s very definition. I’m talking about correlation which means that higher BMI individuals tend to track positively with a higher incidence of injury.
Merely having a higher BMI doesn’t cause you to be injured. But if you understand physics and physiology, it seems to make sense. You’re asking your body to engage incredibly quickly. The more mass you have to push forward, the more work is exerted.
There are parts of the human body that are fixed, you can’t grow them or make them more durable. If you are asking those parts of the body to withstand greater force of exertion, you’re wearing them out and exposing them to higher probability of breaking down.
The previous core players of the Yankees: Jeter, Williams, Posada, Rivera, except for (PED) Pettitte, all had lower BMI than the current crop of monsters in pinstripes. Is it any wonder they break down all the time?
There are many people smarter than me that would read this and understand exactly what I am saying and would see the wisdom in it.
Along the way did you ever consider that people, especially athletes, tend to be bigger today than in the past? Outside of Judge and Stanton, I’m not sure who is included in this “current crop of monsters.” Even those two aren’t abnormal weight for their height.
No, most people in the medical field do not take BMI seriously and that is the whole point here. You put way too much emphasis on an archaic system
And people, especially athletes, and especially baseball players are getting more injured. So is getting bigger better? The population is basically fatter. Athletes are more muscular. So what? With all the medical advances, we can’t seem to stop them from being too bulky and getting injured. That’s not progress.
The gyms are a joke. Big arms with stick legs. Are you kidding me? Everything in sports comes from your legs. People just flat out have no idea what they’re doing. Baseball is obviously more advanced than the pathetic health club dude. But still the injuries pile up.
Something is wrong and the medical field hasn’t done a damn thing to help. They’re making their money! What do they care? If BMI is archaic then what do we use? Nobody’s coming up with the answer, that’s for sure!
Upon googling BMI, it states that waist to hip ratio is the answer to your question
And that solves the injury question? Disease? Yes. But that’s not what I’m talking about.
One 2021 study showed that people who carry more of their weight around their midsection (an apple-shaped body) may be at a higher risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and premature death than people who carry more of their weight in their hips and thighs (a pear-shaped body).
Even if your BMI is within a moderate range, your risk of disease may be increased.
Sad – this is a team who is supposed to be competing for the World Series???! They have had injuries, but all teams do.
Cubs have extra pitching. Just call Hoyer!
If he can sustain that .179, he’d fit perfectly in one of the 5-9 slots in the batting order.
This team as it is now can’t win a WS in ‘23 and even AL Champ. Pitching depth is weak ( 2 new NYY starters injury prone), and Boone’s constant lineup shaking is not conducive to steadiness, hits and RUNS! Sad…where’s “the Boss” style ?!!
As it is now? It’s been this way for several years. You’re missing the common denominator, bad hitting. Shaking up a bad lineup is like arranging deck chairs on the Titanic.