{"id":672136,"date":"2026-04-10T03:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672136\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:15:13","slug":"yankees-designate-cade-winquest-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672136\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Designate Cade Winquest For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees are designating Rule 5 pick\u00a0Cade Winquest<\/a> for assignment, reports Jon Heyman of The New York Post<\/a>. The righty didn\u2019t get into a game during his two weeks in New York\u2019s bullpen.<\/p>\n

That\u2019ll evidently be the corresponding move for tomorrow\u2019s recall of\u00a0Luis Gil<\/a>. Manager Aaron Boone said over the weekend that the Yankees would bring Gil up<\/a> this week. He\u2019s listed as the probable starter opposite Steven Matz<\/a> for Friday\u2019s series opener against the Rays. The 13-pitcher limit meant an arm from the MLB roster had to be squeezed out.<\/p>\n

The Yankees had the luxury of running a four-man rotation for the first couple weeks based on their number of available off days. Gil joins Max Fried<\/a>,\u00a0Cam Schlittler<\/a>,\u00a0Will Warren<\/a> and\u00a0Ryan Weathers<\/a> in the rotation. They needed to drop from nine to eight in the bullpen.\u00a0Brent Headrick<\/a> has pitched too well to be sent down. Jake Bird<\/a> has been sharp as well aside from one ugly outing against Miami on Sunday. Fernando Cruz<\/a> and\u00a0Camilo Doval<\/a> are their only other relievers with minor league options.<\/p>\n

Rather than option a more trusted reliever in Bird, the Yankees move on from Winquest. The 25-year-old didn\u2019t have a great spring, allowing nine runs (eight earned) with eight strikeouts and four walks across 10 innings. It was a surprise that he broke camp at all.<\/p>\n

The Yankees clearly liked some of what they saw but didn\u2019t find a scenario where Boone felt comfortable bringing him into a regular season game. Teams generally use Rule 5 picks as low-leverage relievers, especially early in the season before they\u2019ve gained a manager\u2019s trust. All four of New York\u2019s losses have been by one run, games in which they could certainly have come back. They\u2019ve had three blowout wins, but two came behind long outings from Fried and one followed an off day so the rest of the bullpen was fresh.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll have five days to trade Winquest or place him on waivers. If he goes unclaimed, he\u2019ll be offered back to the Cardinals. The former eighth-round pick had previously spent his entire career in the St. Louis organization. He has worked as a minor league starting pitcher and combined for a 3.99 ERA across 106 innings between High-A and Double-A last year. Unless another team is willing to keep him on the MLB roster, he\u2019ll head back to his original club without requiring a spot on the 40-man roster for St. Louis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees are designating Rule 5 pick\u00a0Cade Winquest for assignment, reports Jon Heyman of The New York Post.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,38164],"class_list":{"0":"post-672136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cade-winquest"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116378240503129916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672136","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=672136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}