On Thursday, the Yankees finally informed the 22-year-old right-hander that they were reassigning him to minor league camp, but did so with the belief that it won\u2019t be the last time they see Lagrange this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s made it a difficult decision, which coming into this, I wouldn\u2019t have even thought there was a decision,\u201d manager Aaron Boone said. \u201cHe\u2019s definitely got everyone\u2019s attention. I love where he\u2019s at. I would not be surprised if he is impacting us early, middle, later part of the season, I don\u2019t know. But I can just tell you we\u2019re all very excited about his continued development and what we think he can mean to our team at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, general manager Brian Cashman told The Post that Lagrange had \u201cbeen fantastic\u201d and had \u201copened a lot of eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI just knew before this spring started that he would be the talk of camp because he throws 100-plus,\u201d Cashman said.<\/p>\n
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Carlos Lagrange throws a pitch during a Feb. 21 Grapefruit League game. Charles Wenzelberg<\/p>\n
But the flame-throwing Lagrange did more than just light up the radar gun, though he did plenty of that, too. <\/p>\n
Most importantly, he showed a much better ability to consistently throw strikes than he has in the minor leagues, walking only four in 13 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings while posting a 0.66 ERA. <\/p>\n
He also demonstrated a good feel for his secondary pitches, which, along with the improved command, could go a long way in making sure he stays a starter in the long run.<\/p>\n
It is possible that Lagrange, who is expected to start one of the Yankees\u2019 exhibitions against the Cubs in Arizona next week, could get up to The Bronx quicker in a relief role this season. <\/p>\n
But the way he pitched this spring only reinforced the high ceiling of what he could look like as a starter.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could imagine it right now being really effective in certain roles,\u201d Boone said. \u201cSo I don\u2019t know if we were ever going to break [camp] with him, but I would say we\u2019ve at least talked about it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat he\u2019s done the last six weeks definitely made us think maybe he\u2019s closer than we think.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lagrange\u2019s surge coincided with some rough spring outings for rotation members Luis Gil and Ryan Weathers. <\/p>\n
Gil, who will make his final spring start Friday night, has still been searching for the swing-and-miss fastball that earned him the Rookie of the Year in 2024, and has not had the same quality of stuff so far this spring. <\/p>\n
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Carlos Lagrange throws a pitch during a March 18 Grapefruit League game for the Yankees. Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Weathers, meanwhile, got tagged for seven runs on eight hits (including two home runs) in three-plus innings against the Blue Jays on Thursday, leaving him with an 11.68 ERA across four Grapefruit League starts.<\/p>\n
Boone reiterated Thursday that like Gil, Weathers is in the five-man rotation \u2014 saying neither was \u201cfar off\u201d from where they need to be \u2014 though the Yankees are still determining whether they will start the season with a four-man rotation with multiple off days over the first two weeks.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Weathers] is healthy and the stuff is in line with where it needs to be,\u201d Boone said. \u201cI don\u2019t put a lot of stock in numbers in spring.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, certain numbers can leave lasting impressions, like the ones Lagrange made on coaches, front office members and veteran pitchers alike. <\/p>\n
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Earlier this spring, Gerrit Cole said it was \u201csilly\u201d what Lagrange was doing with his consistent triple-digit fastball. Max Fried echoed that sentiment Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never seen velocity like that consistently, and doing it over a bunch of innings,\u201d Fried said. \u201cHe works really hard. He\u2019s really open to a lot of information and obviously his results speak for themselves. He\u2019s been really good and he\u2019ll definitely impact this team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over the course of six weeks this spring, Lagrange made that a \u201cwhen\u201d rather than an \u201cif.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst off, I\u2019m proud of him,\u201d Boone said. \u201cIt\u2019s my first chance getting to be around him and getting to see the person. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve been so impressed with. His work ethic, his confidence, his adaptability, his coachability, his competitiveness. He\u2019s a leader with the younger guys over in [player development].<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s human and the buzz around him and the talk around him, he\u2019s earned that with how excellent he\u2019s pitched here. \u2026 Really excited about him and confident he\u2019s probably going to impact us in a big way at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 Coming into camp, the idea that there would be an actual decision to make on whether…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,151,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-632595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-yankees","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkyankees","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-spring-training","16":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116258541018412140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632595","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=632595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}