The Yankees are set to option right-hander Clayton Beeter and select the contract of left-hander Tanner Tully, manager Aaron Boone announced before today’s game (X link via Greg Joyce of the New York Post). They’ll need to make a corresponding 40-man roster move, but the Yankees have not yet announced what that’ll be.
Tully, 29, has just six major league innings under his belt — all coming with the 2022 Guardians. He allowed four runs on eight hits and six walks in that short sample of work. Cleveland selected Tully in the 26th round back in 2016, and he spent the next seven seasons in their system, working primarily as a starting pitcher in the minors. Following that cup of coffee in the majors in ’22, he was removed from the 40-man roster and became a free agent, ultimately signing a minor league deal with the Yankees.
It proved to be a brief stint with the Yankees, as Tully made 19 starts in Triple-A before being granted his release to sign with the NC Dinos of the Korea Baseball Organization. He made 11 starts for the Dinos in the final couple months of the season, tossing 64 2/3 frames of 2.92 ERA ball with a 17.7% strikeout rate, 4.9% walk rate and 59.6% ground-ball rate. The Yankees brought Tully back on a minor league deal over the winter, and he’ll now make his first appearance on the big league roster.
The Yankees burned through five relievers yesterday after Carlos Rodon lasted only 4 1/3 innings in his first start of the year. They also needed four innings from the ’pen following a five-inning Opening Day outing by Nestor Cortes. Tully will provide a multi-inning option to give them some length in the event of a short start from Marcus Stroman or should the game get out of hand one way or another. In parts of five Triple-A seasons, Tully has a 5.06 ERA with an 18.7% strikeout rate and 5.7% walk rate. He pitched six innings for the Yankees this spring and yielded one run on four hits and a walk with two strikeouts.
Lord Tanner Tully of Riverrun I presume
Hopefully he’s not a coward like Edmure
Edmure’s no coward. He won the battle at Stone Mill.
Let the Scranton Wilkes Barre Shuttle begin
Yup.
It’s early in the season and every pitcher is not going beyond 5 innings. You need an army of guys in AAA to eat some innings.
The Astros probably need to bring some people up too cause their bullpen beyond Hader has been hit hard.
Feel like this guy will be the new Ryan Weber/David Hale
I don’t really understand sending Beeter down after only throwing three pitches last night. You would think they’d at least get another inning out of him tonight
That’s exactly it, they don’t. They also want to keep Beeter on a schedule and stretched so he’ll probably go multiple innings in AAA in a few days. Tully will be back down after one appearance.
The home plate umpiring in this series is epically awful. Grisham’s at bats are a joke. Balls are strikes and strikes are balls. Unbelievable. Need to go to the robots immediately. Just pathetic.
I heard Othani is a good bet?
Banner Bully (unrelated) used to walk around pointing at the banner showing he finished 3rd in states 20 years ago at his high school. Worst substitute teacher I ever met.