{"id":15890,"date":"2024-12-30T09:23:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T09:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=15890"},"modified":"2024-12-30T09:23:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T09:23:37","slug":"brekiang-news-yankees-trade-pitch-grabs-3-7-million-104-mph-fireballer-to-complete-bullpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=15890","title":{"rendered":"BREKIANG NEWS : Yankees Trade Pitch Grabs $3.7 Million, 104 MPH Fireballer to Complete Bullpen"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"l-article__header\"><\/header>\n<div class=\"l-article__meta\">\n<div class=\"l-article__meta-item l-article__meta-item--dates\">\n<ul class=\"c-meta c-meta--post c-meta--list c-meta--dates\">\n<li class=\"c-meta__item c-meta__item--updated\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"l-article__content\">\n<div class=\"c-content entry-content\">\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Yankees-Jhoan-Duran-trade-pitch.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Yankees-Jhoan-Duran-trade-pitch.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Yankees-Jhoan-Duran-trade-pitch.jpg?quality=45&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Yankees-Jhoan-Duran-trade-pitch.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Jhoan Duran celebrates an out.\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-img-load-time=\"811\" data-dom-ready-time=\"902\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">Jhoan Duran<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The New York Yankees have made solidifying their bullpen a priority this offseason, shedding\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/clay-holmes-mets-free-agent-deal\">f<\/a>ading closer Clay Holmes\u00a0who blew 13 saves in 2024, to the New York Mets in free agency. The Yankees then locked up Luke Weaver who took the closer\u2019s job from Holmes in September,\u00a0nailing down four saves, three wins and a hold in nine appearances that month.<\/p>\n<p>And then the Yankees solidified the pen further by trading starter Nestor Cortes, infielder Caleb Durbin and cash to the Milwaukee Brewers for\u00a0two-time All Star closer Devin Williams. Weaver now resumes his role as primary set-up man, giving the Yankees what looks like a lights-out back end of the bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>But the Yankees\u2019 relief corps could use one more shut-down arm to shorten games, and they are interested in acquiring one, as evidenced by the report by longtime MLB insider journalist\u00a0Jon Heyman on Thursday\u00a0that \u201cAndrew Chafin is high on the Yankees\u2019 list of lefty pen targets. Tim Hill is, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"AdThrive_Content_1_desktop\" class=\"adthrive-ad adthrive-content adthrive-content-1 adthrive-ad-cls\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/18190176,25816858\/AdThrive_Content_1\/5ad7479721520f50ab7da88e_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"google-ad-manager-fallback-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Twins Fireballer Comes at Lower Price Than Chafin<\/h2>\n<p>Chafin\u00a0divided his 2024 between\u00a0the Detroit Tigers and Texas Rangers, striking out 70 in 56 1\/3 innings with a 3.51 ERA. Hill, who like Chafin is 34 years old, spent last season with the Yankees but the team let him go to free agency. With the Yankees placing emphasis on swing-and-miss stuff,\u00a0Hill\u2019s mere 18 strikeouts in 44 innings\u00a0make him a less likely candidate to fill the lefty spot in the Bronx bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>But there is another high-velocity bullpen arm reportedly available on the trade market who is younger than Chafin and less expensive as well \u2014 and who throws much harder. In fact, he recorded not just one but five pitches clocked at 104 mph or more\u00a0during the 2023 season. That pitcher is the Minnesota Twins\u2019 26-year-old Dominican righty flamethrower Jhoan Duran.<\/p>\n<div id=\"AdThrive_Content_2_desktop\" class=\"adthrive-ad adthrive-content adthrive-content-2 adthrive-ad-cls\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/18190176,25816858\/AdThrive_Content_2\/5ad7479721520f50ab7da88e_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"google-ad-manager-fallback-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chafin pitched last season on a\u00a0$4.75 million contract\u00a0from the Tigers. Duran is in line to earn just $1.77 million in 2025. Experts have projected\u00a0his arbitration award\u00a0for 2026 to come in around $3.7 million.<\/p>\n<h2>Twins Proved Their Willingness to Deal Duran<\/h2>\n<p>The Twins have shown a willingness to trade Duran. At the 2024 trade deadline, the\u00a0Los Angeles Dodgers are known to have asked\u00a0about him, according to\u00a0<em>The Athletic<\/em>\u2018s Twins beat writer Dan Hayes. But the Twins\u2019 price was too high. According to Hayes, the Dodgers offered the Twins minor league prospects, but Minnesota was looking for players who could step in and help the Major League team.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<em>Twins Daily<\/em>, the team had some concern about a drop in velocity for Duran last season. But even with the drop, the average velocity of his four-seam fastball came in at 100.6 mph.<\/p>\n<div id=\"AdThrive_Content_3_desktop\" class=\"adthrive-ad adthrive-content adthrive-content-3 adthrive-ad-cls\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/18190176,25816858\/AdThrive_Content_3\/5ad7479721520f50ab7da88e_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"google-ad-manager-fallback-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Yankees would likely have to part with some Major League assets to grab Duran, but their roster is deep and even their pitching has some extraneous parts. With the addition of Max Fried signed as free agent from the Atlanta Braves, righty starter\u00a0Clarke Schmidt appears expendab<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/schmicl01.shtml\">le<\/a>, for example. The Yankees would need to add more to obtain Duran, so the question they need to ask themselves would be, is it worth it? With a deeper bullpen that takes pressure off the Yankees\u2019 high-priced starting staff, for an addition as economical as Duran the answer is most likely yes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Jhoan Duran The New York Yankees have made solidifying their bullpen a priority this offseason, shedding\u00a0fading closer Clay Holmes\u00a0who blew 13 saves in 2024, to the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-news","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREKIANG NEWS : Yankees Trade Pitch Grabs $3.7 Million, 104 MPH Fireballer to Complete Bullpen - 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