{"id":716129,"date":"2026-06-03T09:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/716129\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:45:23","slug":"yankees-move-carlos-lagrange-to-bullpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/716129\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Move Carlos Lagrange To Bullpen"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees are moving pitching prospect\u00a0Carlos Lagrange<\/a> to the bullpen in Triple-A, as first reported by Jack Curry of The YES Network<\/a>. Manager Aaron Boone subsequently confirmed the decision while adding that the team still hopes to develop Lagrange as a starter in future seasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe definitely view him long term as a starter,\u201d Boone told reporters (including Bryan Hoch of MLB.com<\/a>). \u201cBut in the 2026 lens, there\u2019s a chance for him to potentially impact us out of the bullpen while not really disrupting anything moving forward.\u201d Boone added that the Yankees will need to take \u201cseveral weeks\u201d to get Lagrange accustomed to working in shorter stints and pitching on an every other day basis.<\/p>\n

That\u2019ll take place with Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre. It\u2019ll still be at least a few weeks before Lagrange is an option at the MLB level. It\u2019s clear the Yankees are targeting a midseason promotion for the fireballing 23-year-old, who certainly has the stuff to be a late-inning weapon if he\u2019s around the strike zone. They\u2019ll ideally feel comfortable bringing him up a few weeks before the trade deadline, as that could factor into their urgency to add external bullpen help.<\/p>\n

Lagrange has averaged 98.9 mph on his fastball while working as a starter. There\u2019s a decent chance he\u2019ll be sitting in the triple digits in shorter stints, as he\u2019s been clocked up to 103. He\u2019s carrying a pedestrian 4.41 ERA through 49 Triple-A innings despite a 29% strikeout rate. Lagrange has walked more than 11% of opponents while averaging less than five innings per start.<\/p>\n

The fastball is one of the best minors. Prospect evaluators also praise his breaking stuff, most notably his slider. Baseball America<\/a> and Eric Longenhagen\/Brendan Gawlowski of FanGraphs<\/a> each ranked Lagrange the #4 prospect in the Yankees system over the winter. Both outlets felt he was likeliest to end up in the bullpen given his subpar control but write that he has closing upside in that capacity.<\/p>\n

The Yankees seem likely to look for another high-leverage arm to join\u00a0David Bednar<\/a>,\u00a0Fernando Cruz<\/a> and Brent Headrick<\/a> in relief. Bednar, an impending free agent, has had an inconsistent season in the closer role. New York could get\u00a0Clarke Schmidt<\/a> back late in the year to work in a relief capacity and\/or consider\u00a0Ryan Weathers<\/a> in the bullpen if they\u2019re concerned about his workload.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees are moving pitching prospect\u00a0Carlos Lagrange to the bullpen in Triple-A, as first reported by Jack Curry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,42023],"class_list":["post-716129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-carlos-lagrange"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116685538801452083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716129","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=716129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}