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The Yankees have re-signed outfielder Billy McKinney and lefty reliever Anthony Misiewicz to minor association contracts, reports Jack Curry of the YES Organize. Both players figure to be in enormous association camp another spring.
McKinney, 29, returns for a third spell with the Yanks. A 2013 first-round choose by the A’s, McKinney found himself exchanged from Oakland to Chicago within the 2014 Jeff Samardzija exchange and from Chicago to Unused York in 2016’s Aroldis Chapman swap. He debuted within the Bronx in 2018 but was rapidly exchanged a third time, going from Modern York to Toronto in 2018’s J.A. Happ bargain.
Whereas McKinney was clearly a prospect of note — thus the first-round determination and three organizations focusing on him in returns for notable veterans — he hasn’t however cemented himself within the huge alliances. He’s counted 915 plate appearances but posted a .209/.284/.390 yield in that time. That incorporates a 2023 season went through back with the Yankees after marking a minor alliance bargain; he sliced .227/.320/.406 in 147 plate appearances this past season. In parts of six Triple-A seasons, McKinney could be a .271/.354/.511 hitter.
Misiewicz, too 29, has been on five groups within the past calendar year. Within the 2022-23 offseason he went from the Royals to the Cardinals in trade for cash some time recently being exchanged from St. Louis to Arizona in another cash swap fair earlier to Opening Day. The Tigers and in conclusion the Yankees both picked him on consequent in-season waiver claims. The Yankees non-tendered him final month.
Since making his MLB make a big appearance in 2020, Misiewicz has pitched 114 2/3 innings of 4.71 Period ball over the course of 130 help appearances. He’s punched out a generally normal 22.8% of his adversaries against a solid 7.5% walk rate, but he’s ended up progressively vulnerable to difficult contact over the past three seasons and hence been more homer-prone.
The Yankees’ later trade-market whirlwind has filled the outfield, with Juan Soto and Alex Verdugo coming to the Bronx to flank Aaron Judge in center field. McKinney has a few encounter at to begin with base as well, but that’s spoken for by Anthony Rizzo. It’s possible he may win a seat spot, but in the event that not he’ll open the year in Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
So also, Misiewicz may well be ticketed for Scranton to start the year, in spite of the fact that at slightest at the minute, he contains a clearer way to winning a spot on the list. Scratch Ramirez and Matt Krook are the as it were lefty relievers on the Yankees’ 40-man program, but that can be tended to with ensuing free specialist and/or exchange acquisitions presently that they’ve updated their outfield and lineup.
