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Matt Bowman Opts Out Of Yankees Deal

By Nick Deeds | July 16, 2023 at 2:22pm CDT

Right-hander Matt Bowman has opted out of his minor league deal with the Yankees, per MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand. If the Yankees don’t add Bowman to the club’s 40-man roster within the next 72 hours, Bowman will return to the open market.

A 13th round pick by the Mets in the 2012 draft, Bowman made his major league debut with the Cardinals in 2016. From 2016-19, Bowman posted a 4.02 ERA (105 ERA+) and 3.68 FIP across 181 innings of work between the St. Louis and Cincinnati bullpens. Bowman didn’t appear in an affiliated game from 2020-2022 due to the shortened 2020 campaign and the Tommy John surgery he underwent in September of that year.

After landing with the Yankees on a minor league deal, he returned to pro-ball at the Triple-A level with the club earlier this season. In 38 1/3 innings of work at Triple-A this season, Bowman has posted solid numbers. He sports a 3.29 ERA with a solid 22% strikeout rate and strong 59.6% groundball rate, albeit with a less impressive walk rate of 11%.

Despite Bowman’s solid performance at the Triple-A level, it’s unclear if the Yankees will make room for him on the 40-man or allow him to walk in free agency. New York sports MLB’s best bullpen ERA with a 3.16 figure, while Yankees relievers rank a solid 4th in the NL with 2.9 fWAR this season. Given the solid performances not only from back-end arms like Clay Holmes and Michael King but even relievers like Nick Ramirez and Ian Hamilton in the middle innings, the club may simply not have room in their bullpen for Bowman, though the right-hander does have a minor league option remaining.

If Bowman does reach the open market, he’s sure to garnet interest from relief-needy clubs thanks to the 32-year-old hurler’s combination of strong results at Triple-A this year and track record of success in the big leagues when healthy. With the trade deadline just two weeks away, plenty of clubs are likely to be shuffling their relief corps in the near future, whether to accommodate a newly-acquired arm or after dealing away an established reliever. That could create opportunity for Bowman to crack an MLB roster and return to a major league mound for the first time since 2019.

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13 Comments

  1. gorav114

    2 years ago

    Smart timing. A lot of teams are gauging the market for relief pitchers and may view him as a cheaper option since he won’t require any prospects

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    • Captain-Judge99

      2 years ago

      Bow wow

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  2. This one belongs to the Reds

    2 years ago

    Don’t blame him for opting out. If that performance doesn’t get him called up already having big league experience, nothing will.

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    • Fire Krall

      2 years ago

      Yuuuuuuppppp!

      Reply
  3. In Seager/Hader We Trust > the 70 MM DH Ohtani

    2 years ago

    He bowed out.

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    Reply
    • DCartrow

      2 years ago

      Not the only Yankee to have a bow movement this year.

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      Reply
  4. Hired Gun 23

    2 years ago

    Where does “garnet interest” fall on the scale? More than emerald or less than ruby?

    2
    Reply
  5. stuffnya

    2 years ago

    Cardinals should de in on him he pitched well during his time with them

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    • Cardsfan21

      2 years ago

      Kills me to say it but if I were him I’d probably choose the minors over our train wreck.

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      Reply
  6. MKE414

    2 years ago

    I’d opt out from the Yankees too lol

    1
    Reply
  7. Old York

    2 years ago

    Good. Yankees are a terrible team so why waste your career with that organization?

    3
    Reply
  8. Frankie Bani

    2 years ago

    Yankees are done

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    Reply
  9. User 3617846742

    2 years ago

    The Yankee ownership and front office is a joke.

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