The Yankees have signed left-hander Tanner Tully to a minor league deal, according to a report from Matt Eddy of Baseball America. It’s unclear if the lefty will receive an invitation to major league Spring Training.
It’s the second straight offseason in which the Yanks have brought Tully aboard on a minors pact. He made 19 starts at the Triple-A level last year with a 5.64 earned run average, posting a subpar 18.6% strikeout rate but limiting walks to a 6.4% clip and keeping 40.7% of balls in play on the ground.
He was released in August to join the NC Dinos of the Korea Baseball Organization and finished the year on a strong note. He made 11 starts for the Dinos with a 2.92 ERA. His 17.7% strikeout rate was still not especially strong, but his 4.9% walk rate and 59.6% ground ball rate were both quite encouraging.
That has generally been the profile for Tully in his minor league career, which dates back to being drafted by Cleveland in 2016. He’s never had a walk rate higher than 8.2% at any stop of his minor league career and has induced a fair share of grounders, but he’s also never been a big strikeout guy. He has six innings of major league experience, which came with the Guardians in 2022.
The Yankees have a reputation for loving ground ball guys and they also need some extra rotation depth, having included Michael King, Drew Thorpe, Jhony Brito and Randy Vásquez in the Juan Soto trade. They will have Gerrit Cole leading the major league rotation, with Carlos Rodón, Nestor Cortes and Clarke Schmidt to follow. They also seem likely to add someone else, having been connected to names like Blake Snell, Jordan Montgomery, Marcus Stroman and Dylan Cease.
Tully, now 29, can provide them with some depth at the Triple-A level alongside guys like Clayton Beeter, Luis Gil, Yoendrys Gómez, Cody Poteet and Will Warren. He’s also done some relief work in the past and could perhaps slide into a bullpen role later. The Yanks lost their primary lefty ground ball guy, Wandy Peralta, to free agency at the end of the 2023 season. If Tully is added to the roster at any point, he still has a full slate of options and just 15 days of service time.
Cease, Bieber, Snell, Luzardo that’s all we want to know.
Yes Cashman’s dumpsta divin’ again
Cap – This keeps my dream alive of a matchup of Tanners, Houck vs Tully.
Now if we can get Tanner &%$#@! Boyle out of retirement, I would be in heaven!
Fever- well at least thank you for having a good sense of humor about this signing. Lolololololol!
That is Cashman‘s MO captain. We don’t mind the dumpster diving, if it was followed up by your wheel acquisition, but as we long suspect it will not be. The Yankees continue to load up on crap, hoping that one of them will pay out. not a way to begin a championship run.
Burnes and Snell would be ok too.
Thinking just one of those needed. Burnes will be way too expensive as far as prospects are concerned, unless the Yankees could keep Spencer Jones and Jasson Dominguez out of the trade. Chase Hampton, Everson Pereira, and George Lombard seem fair for Burnes. My preference is Monty over Snell,and Cease over Bieber. No need for Stroman either. I would offer Pereira, Schmidt, Lombard and Beeter or Gomez for Cease and call it a day.
That’ll get them to the playoffs
The Poverty Padres aren’t even in deals like this.
Amazing! All these other teams are mentioned in rumors for Snell,Montgomery,Stroman etc. but never the Poverty Padres.
All that money save by trading Soto and it will simply be pocketed.
Gut the payroll and raise ticket prices!
Great for ownership not so much for fans!
Missing Peter Seidler.
In fairness the Padres have not been shy about backing the brinks truck up.
In previous years totally! This year is setting a trend or precedent that is not looking good.
Spend the money saved by trading Soto on player personnel and I’ll change my tune.
This team has holes all over the roster needing to be filled.
tpain – They have to get into compliance on their debt service ratio..
Did they really raise ticket prices this year? Hopefully not too much.
They raised ticket prices substantially.
At least the Yankees haven’t succumbed to broad-based player development yet.
The Lord Paramount of the Trident and the Lord of Riverrun. Nice little pickup.
Guess a Lannister forgot to pay his debt.
Good to see the Yankees being active this offseason to upgrade their team and bring in some much needed minors resources.
Book the Championship parade!
Who?
I had him on my FA contest as going to the White Sox for 2/$100m. I wish they would have put his numbers up to see how close I came.
Bring Chuck Tanner from the death…
Arguably the most underrated stadium and sports team and city in the entire country.
I’ve heard PNC Field in Moosic, Pennsylvania called many things but never that.
NY, blink twice if you need help.
the american league pennant just got a bit closer to reality.