Carlos Lagrange, come out firing<\/a> and do not let up \u2014 at least not yet for the Yankees\u2019 top pitching prospect.<\/p>\nLagrange continued to dazzle in his second Grapefruit League outing Friday, piggybacking Gil and tossing three shutout innings against a Twins lineup filled with mostly regulars while averaging 100.1 mph on his fastball.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old generated some ugly looking swings (or check swings) from the Twins, racking up nine whiffs and four strikeouts on 41 pitches before having to go to the bullpen to throw more because he was so efficient.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing I\u2019ve been pleased with with Carlos is, obviously, the stuff jumps out at you, the big fastball and the slider\/changeup are really good pitches for him, but the strike throwing\u2019s been there,\u201d manager Aaron Boone said after a 17-5 win at Hammond Stadium.<\/p>\n
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Carlos Lagrange throws a pitch during the Yankees\u2019 Grapefruit League game Feb. 27. Imagn Images<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he\u2019s doing that, it gets exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n
The biggest knock on Lagrange during his rise through the minors has been a lack of command, which is why some scouts believe he will end up in the bullpen. But the Yankees can also dream about what his high-level stuff \u2014 he topped out at 102.1 mph Friday and has thrown the three hardest pitches of any pitcher this spring \u2014 might look like over longer outings as a starter if he is able to pound the strike zone more consistently, as he did Friday.<\/p>\n
Also encouraging is how Lagrange has maintained his velocity through outings.<\/p>\n
His fastball averaged 100.2 mph in his first inning, 99.3 in the second and 100.8 in the third.<\/p>\n
Gil, meanwhile, had more of a grind, throwing 52 pitches across 2 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings.<\/p>\n
He got stuck in some long at-bats that drove up his pitch count \u2014four that lasted seven pitches or longer \u2014 that forced him to exit with two outs in the second before he re-entered to get two quick outs on two pitches in the third inning.<\/p>\n
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Luis Gil prepares to throw a pitch for the Yankees during his Feb. 27 Grapefruit League outing. Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Those two pitches were Gil\u2019s hardest of the day, at 96.5 mph and 96.7 mph, though his four-seamer averaged 94.7 \u2014 a slight tick up from his spring debut (94.5) but still below his 2025 average (95.3) and the 96.6 he averaged as the AL Rookie of the Year in 2024.<\/p>\n
In the first inning, he left a 94.5 mph fastball down the middle to Trevor Larnach, who drilled it for\u00a0a home run.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s the building process of spring training,\u201d Gil said through an interpreter. \u201cThe training has been very good. We\u2019re building on every single outing. I think we\u2019ve had a consistent climb to get to the velo I\u2019m used to. I think maybe by the third or fourth start, it might be more consistent to what I\u2019m used to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boone believes that if Gil \u2014 who only induced four swing-and-misses and one strikeout Friday \u2014 keeps building with each outing, he will ultimately get to where he needs to be.<\/p>\n
\u201cPart of that is just being really comfortable with his mechanics and his throwing motion to where he\u2019s behind the ball and driving it,\u201d Boone said. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen when that velocity starts to climb, coupled with the secondary, then the swing-and-miss comes right back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Lagrange and Luis Gil pitched for the Yankees in spring training Friday. FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 Some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[1797,5,42023,2277,1816,778,58,4171,4,151,3477,142],"class_list":["post-597742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-marlins","tag-aaron-boone","tag-baseball","tag-carlos-lagrange","tag-luis-gil","tag-marlins","tag-miami","tag-miami-marlins","tag-miamimarlins","tag-mlb","tag-spring-training","tag-trevor-larnach","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116147246754145840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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