{"id":28059,"date":"2025-02-23T03:24:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T03:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=28059"},"modified":"2025-02-23T03:24:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T03:24:01","slug":"brutal-blow-yankees-hit-with-more-bad-news-as-pitchers-2025-season-ends-suddenly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=28059","title":{"rendered":"BRUTAL BLOW: Yankees Hit with More Bad News as Pitcher\u2019s 2025 Season Ends Suddenly!"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/2025\/02\/Yankees-Bad-News-Aaron-Boone-Chase-Hampton.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Yankees-Bad-News-Aaron-Boone-Chase-Hampton.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Yankees-Bad-News-Aaron-Boone-Chase-Hampton.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Yankees-Bad-News-Aaron-Boone-Chase-Hampton.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Aaron Boone\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" data-img-load-time=\"762\" data-dom-ready-time=\"807\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">Yankees Manager Aaron Boone<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In early January, the New York Yankees were still reeling from the departure of their second baseman of the past seven years, when Gleyber Torres signed a\u00a0one-year, $15 million free agent\u00a0contract with the Detroit Tigers. But the ideas on how to replace Torres came quickly, and one of the biggest and most exciting involved a trade involving the Yankees\u2019 top two pitching prospects.<\/p>\n<p>That proposed trade, which never came to fruition, would have seen the Yankees taking three-time All-Star and 2015 American League Rookie of the Year\u00a0Carlos Correa from the Minnesota Twins. In exchange, the Yankees were to send back a package that included their top pitching prospect Will Warren \u2014 and their\u00a0second-ranked pitcher on the prospect\u00a0list, Chase Hampton.<\/p>\n<h2>Hampton Chooses Immediate Tommy John Surgery<\/h2>\n<p>The trade never happened, and now neither will Hampton\u2019s season. In a stunning and unexpected setback, the 23-year-old Texan righthander\u00a0underwent Tommy John surgery\u00a0Friday morning in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>It was\u00a0just on Wednesday that Yankees manager Aaron Boone\u00a0revealed that there was \u201csomething going on\u201d with the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in Hampton\u2019s pitching elbow. Boone at that time said that Hampton, who was participating in the Yankees\u2019 big league spring training camp, had been sent to New York for medical imaging on the elbow.<\/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<p>The results came back with not only bad news,\u00a0but the worst-case scenario\u00a0\u2014 a tear in the ligament that would require surgical repair. Hampton chose to have the procedure immediately, despite that it brings his 2025 season to a sudden end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think in his mind, just dealing with some of the things he\u2019s had to deal with over the last year-plus, I think there\u2019s a little bit of, \u2018Hey, let\u2019s get fixed and get back on the trail,&#8217;\u201d\u00a0Boone said on Saturday. \u201cSo hopefully there\u2019s a little comfort in knowing that he has a chance to put this behind him. So, long road back, but doesn\u2019t change what a talented guy he is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recovery from the surgery typically takes a\u00a0minimum of one year, meaning that hope for Hampton to make his Yankees debut in 2025 is now extinguished. Hampton dealt with a series on injuries in 2024, limiting him to just seven starts over three levels of the Yankees\u2019 minor league system.<\/p>\n<h2>Prospect Projected as Possible Mid-Rotation Starter<\/h2>\n<p>Hampton was a\u00a0sixth-round draft pick\u00a0for the Yankees in 2022 out of Texas Tech. He made his professional debut in 2023, going 2-1 with a 2.68 ERA in nine starts for the Hudson Valley Renegades, the Yankees\u2019 Advanced Single-A affiliate in the South Atlantic League.<\/p>\n<p>That performance earned Hampton a quick promotion to the Double-A level, where he fought his way to a 4.37 ERA but struck out 68 in 59 2\/3 innings for the Eastern League Somerset Patriots. Despite the injury setbacks in 2024, Hampton ended that season as New York\u2019s sixth-ranked overall prospect and second-ranked pitching prospect,\u00a0according to\u00a0<em>MLB.com<\/em>, behind only 25-year-old righty Will Warren who\u00a0made his debut for the Major League club last season.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fangraphs<\/em>\u00a0also ranked Hampton No. 6\u00a0overall in the Yankees\u2019 system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a version of Hampton that returns with the velocity he\u2019s had for most of his career \u2014 a fastball in the low 90s \u2014 and projects as a No. 4-5 starter,\u201d wrote\u00a0<em>Fangraphs<\/em>\u00a0prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen. \u201cAnd then there\u2019s the apex version we saw for a few months in 2023 who would more cleanly fit in the middle of a rotation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Either way, all MLB teams generally need pitching reinforcements as the season progresses, and if they can find those options in their own farm system rather than being forced to make trades, that can give a competitive team a significant advantage. The Yankees just lost one possible option in Hampton for at least another year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Yankees Manager Aaron Boone In early January, the New York Yankees were still reeling from the departure of their second baseman of the past seven years,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BRUTAL BLOW: Yankees Hit with More Bad News as Pitcher\u2019s 2025 Season Ends Suddenly! - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=28059\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BRUTAL BLOW: Yankees Hit with More Bad News as Pitcher\u2019s 2025 Season Ends Suddenly! 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