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| David Weathers' ERA matched his chins |
FWIW, two of the traded prospects had been listed among the Yankees' Top 20, so let's figure the farm system is tapped out and will be hard pressed to deliver a Freddy Peralta -(though Spencer Jones remains on the table.)
As for Ryan Weathers, here are 10 sorta fun facts.
1. He's a former 1st round pick. (WTF is it with Cooperstown Cashman and former 1st rounders?) He was selected 7th, by San Diego, in the 2018 draft. (His dad was a 3rd rounder, by Toronto, in 1988.)
2. He turned 26 last month, and he's under contract until 2029. (Another major attraction for Cashman.)
3. His portly dad, David, was listed as 6'3" and 205 (a hallucinatory number.) Ryan is 6'1" and 230. A chunk.
4. As a high school senior, Ryan was named 2017 Gatorade National Player of the Year. He must have gotten laid all the time. He committed to Vanderbilt.
5. After being drafted, Ryan signed for $5.2 million and went to Fort Wayne, where he pitched decently (ERA 3.84) in the Midwest dirt league.
6. In 2020, with the Padres, Ryan became the 2nd pitcher in MLB history to make his debut in the fucking postseason, pitching 1.1 innings, walking two. Seriously, he debuted in the playoffs!
7. He made the 2021 Padres roster out of spring training, looked like a future thing, and then pretty much sucked over 30 games that year. (ERA 5.32.)
8. At the 2023 trade deadline, San Diego dealt him to Miami for Garret Cooper and Sean Reynolds. Again, he pretty much sucked. (ERA 7.62.)
9. Weathers started to blossom in 2024, throwing 71 innings (ERA 3.63), but he missed several months with a strained index finger.
10. In 2025, he showed more promise, (ERA 3.99) but missed big chunks of the season with strains of his forearm and lat.
Good stuff. Can't stay healthy. Ours for three years. Not sure what we gave up, or what this signifies - if anything - for Bellinger and the outfield. But you have to really believe in miracles, if you think the Yankees have solved their pitching issues.
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The trust funders in Yankee management prize legacy hires above everything else. It's the only quality they'll invest in, that wasn't 'verified' by their AI analytics bot.
Nothing changes, nothing changes. La plus qui change. If you keep doing what you always did, you'll get what you always got.
And, mind you, I was never a Maria Muldaur fan. Always a blues, Stones, Clash, Jazz, Sun Ra etc kind of guy, BUT, imagine this to the melody of "Midnight at the Oasis"
Food stamps on the horizon
Hal is tucked into bed
Dreaming of a casino
The Yankees lie there, dead.
Brian's making the calls now
Couch change in his hand
Nothing's left on the farm now
Except an empty shed.
OKAY OKAY, that's not my best work, but most people missed my song posts from last week, which I think were pretty good. No matter, I'm fine, I tell you.
BUT, to give you an idea of how fucked up the 70s were - and I know you all know this already, while many insanely great albums were being released all the time, here are the ACTUAL lyrics to the chorus of Midnight at the Oasis, a song that shot up the charts. It's enough to make you run to Shea and buy a ticket to the Mets...
"Come on, Cactus is our friend
He'll point out the way
Come on, 'til the evenin' ends
'Til the evenin' ends"
I hear ya, Bitty. But as a 15-year-old, she sounded like the sexiest thing in the world over the radio. I didn't really care what she was singing. And hey, "Waitress in a Donut Shop" was kinda fun.
I bought the album, I'll admit it, at Sam Goody's for about three bucks. I'd listen to it at night with headphones, stacked somewhere in between Exile on Main Street and some Allman Brothers. But I didn't tell my friends. Later, I found out that my friends had bought albums by Bread and Alice Cooper, so I didn't feel so bad.
I remember someone telling me that Minnie Riperton was a perfect angel . . .
Every horny college freshman in America bought "Waitress in a Donut Shop."
And lots and lots of donuts
Mid-Day at the Dunkin’ Donuts
Chocolate Honey Dip in hand
Gotta get another Jelly
In my Belly
Before they’re gone
Color me disgusted.
I would have to see him pitch for an inning or two before passing judgment. I like to rely on seeing a pitcher's "stuff" and seeing the reactions from opposing batters, rather than looking at stats to assess a pitcher. It sounds like he has potential. If he made his major league debut in the playoffs, the Padres must've seen something in him just to make the playoff roster, right?
It doesn't seem like we gave up much to get him. You raise your eyebrows at the quantity, four prospects for one. But this is one that might be major league ready. Or he might be another #1 draft pick major league drop out. Could be that the Marlins want to cut their losses and move on from him. I think this is most likely, given the prospects we gave up for him. If he was really great, they'd have demanded (and received) someone like Spencer Jones or Jasson Dominguez, right? And then again, two teams have already punted on him, not just one. Hopefully, he won't get hurt in spring training, and we'll be able to pass judgment at that time.
In the meadow we will build a snowman
And pretend that he is Parson Brown
He'll say are you married, we'll say no, man
But you can do the job while you're in town
So Fatso missed a lot of time with a bad finger. Now, there was a band. Even if Come and Get It was an exact duplication of McCartney's demo, because they'd have been crazy to fuck it up.
And the Strawberries, before Eric Carmen blew his nose/brain out on cocaine. Actually, I saw them do a reunion show, with Eric, and they were massively good. Nice power pop band.
Speaking of which, Spirit in the Sky is still an amazing record. Best guitar solo having fewest notes, probably ever. Though Manzanera had a great one on Virginia Plain, too.
Maria Muldaur was a folkie from the 60s, wasn't she? Nice that she got a hit. Nice that Lou Rawls got a hit, too, after all that time on the Chitlin Circuit. And Joe Tex, for that matter.
Well, I couldn't resist checking out Ryan Weathers on youtube. Just 2025 highlights, of course. I really need to see a couple of complete innings. But from what I saw, he throws hard. The fastball seems to be a bit straight. I'd like to see a bit more of a hop at the end. And not too many high fastballs in the highlights. I'd like to see more high hard ones, with a little late more movement. He also throws a sweeper, which seems to be more of a slider than a sweeper. It has pretty good movement. And he has a very good change up.
So just watching his highlights, I think this is, at worst, a very decent trade. There is a lot of upside. We got a major league ready pitcher. He is going into the starting rotation as the number 4 or 5.
What you have to worry about is that our pitching coach is not up to the challenge of properly molding this guy. Chances are, Blake teaches him a cutter (Yankee coaching just loves the cutter). Then has him mix in lots of sweepers. I don't know what his pitch percentages were, but they'll tinker with that for sure. Yankee coaching is pretty much obsessed with "shapes", spin rates, pitch type percentages.
When you have a guy who can throw like that, I would try some different grips on the four seamer and try to get that hop at the end. With the high strike zone that they call these days, the more fastballs you throw, the more effective the off speed becomes.
I viddy’d as well and I must say he will be a better option than sending, say Nick Swisher out there as our number 4/5. Let’s hope we don’t mess him up too badly and he stays healthy
Swisher for #5!
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