Huge Yankees Changes Coming - It's Over...

Huge changes are coming to the New York Yankees as it is over for a huge group of players and right now the Yankees bullpen was one of the bright spots of last season. Well the pitching in general was but honestly when it comes down to it we are seeing some major changes in regards to who is going to be in that bullpen as the Yankees do face a long list of players who are now available in free agency who some of them they plan on retaining but it's going to definitely involved some serious and I mean very very serious contract negotiations while other teams will likely try to steal from the Yankees bullpen as well we're going to break all that down guys just make sure to go ahead and subscribe to the channel before we do any of that because guys 66% of you guys watching are not yet subscribed we got videos like this coming out every single day and we got a ton of great New York Yankees news for you but jumping into the video guys there has been a whole lot to look at in this offseason so far a few days in really a weekend and guys right now there's been a lot of questions surrounding who's going to stick around at the bullpen obviously the Yankees had some great players in their pen this past season guys like David Bednar and Paul Blackburn and Brent Hedrick were all absolutely excellent pieces for this team but the question is who stays and who goes and the biggest question really is the one that surrounds none other than their closer David Bednar who leads the Yankees bullpen in all decisions as he's the most expensive guy in that pen right now he just had a very strong season amidst a bad start to the year Bednar was awesome for the Yankees and there really is a lot of questions surrounding what happens next with a big chunk of these guys and Bednar you know the Yankees want to keep him around but they also they do have some guys who are kind of being groomed to be the next real closers of the team and guys before we get into that i do just want to say october baseball is here every pitch matters and every matchup gets magnified and everyone has a pick but whose analysis are you actually following get a fresh perspective this 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surrounding I mean for agency in general you got to look at the expiring deals David Bednar, Paul Blackburn, Tim Hill, Ryan Yarbrough and I mean Bednar and Blackburn were two of the three best pitchers in this pen now Hill and Yarbrough there's definitely some thoughts about as well but we look at Bednar in the strong season that he did have he I mean had 35 saves which is in the top one percent had 76 strikeouts which was absolutely excellent the whip was barely above one a 2.47 ERA and he did really really well in his 64 games that he appeared in pitching 69.1 innings he was good David Bednar really really was very very effective this year literally only gave up four home runs the man was great and Bednar now looking at him it makes sense why the Yankees would want to keep him have him continue to be the closer and they would probably give him a multi-year deal but not like some super long-term deal I would expect somewhere around three four years max probably he would get from the Yankees to continue to be their closer for the coming years before guys like Carlos Lagrange get ready or maybe the Yankees do move towards Brian Hedrick and decide they don't want to pay Bednar but with the way he pitched and with the way the Yankees value their bullpen you have to imagine that Brian Cashman will continue to really go out there and use it because we look at the arsenal the man is a main fastball pitcher but has a splitter and a curveball that he throws even amounts as well to mix things up and again he had so much success with all of these pitches that you have to imagine that they want to retain their closer i mean his decision it assesses the cost of retaining him for sure and weighs in external replacement and preserve late inning reliability but we know the yankees do want to keep him and the qualifying offer is the big question because it's a tough decision for the yankees to watch a new contract has not been agreed on free agency leaves the ninth inning open unless they do turn towards Hedrick and have Lagrange come in and have him kind of look like he's their future closer but here's the thing he totally can return and i kind of think he will to be honest he's having success here the Yankees are good why would he not want to pitch here I mean it doesn't mean his departure is happening and again the Yankees should try to retain him and I think they will now with Paul Blackburn we also have another side of this to look at as he faces free agency as well coming off of a breakout season Blackburn was absolutely excellent this year I mean there's no doubt about it he appeared in 62 games actually started two games as well bullpen games had a 1.69 ERA 69 strikeouts did really really really well for himself here i mean overall this man's ERA was fifth in the MLB this last year and though he's not a strikeout pitcher he's getting the job done 100 the WHIP was good at a 1.09 the man just knew how to be a valuable player and in October Blackburn showed up i mean he didn't allow a single run at all in the 4.1 innings he pitched with a 1.46 he showed he can show up in the big moments and i do think the Yankees will totally bring back Paul Blackburn because clearly they've unlocked something here now he also gives multi-inning relief pitching which is obviously great that you want to see and you can also just have him be a bridge pitcher between a starter and a closer and use Blackburn the entire time in between for a good three innings if you need him to he's just that there he's just super talented and i do think the Yankees will try to retain him however we also to look at Tim Hill and Ryan Yarbrough facing free agency because this one is a little bit different now Hill and Yarbrough did not have the best seasons either of them I do think there's a case to bring both of them back Hill's year was not very good he started out scorching hot but fell off a proverbial cliff the Yankees probably overused them early on in the year which is why I think that happened the Yankees also have a lot of lefty pitching now between Hedrick as well having him there they bring back Yarbrough they will have enough lefty pitching that they could use him a little more situationally and he probably would be able to really become a valuable player meanwhile with Yarbrough there definitely is the thought process that I my thought process is they should bring him back I know 3.69 is not great for the bullpen but he's a serviceable pitcher and I like the fact that he's a swing man you can't always have him start or just pitch five innings if you need him to he's really just a talented guy and again I like having a good amount of lefties in the pen as well I like it to be fairly even so it doesn't happen you could obviously favor righties a little bit more they're more common but at the same time I do really think that Yarbrough is the type of guy you should try to keep around good for the team teammates like him he's just he just works and I mean overall if you have to bring back one of them you probably bring back Yarbrough at this point you can handle a little bit more and frankly again Hill's fall off at the end of the year did definitely start to cause some concern but it really does become one of the situations where I do feel like they have to decide on who they want to bring back overall I don't think all four of these guys return I will say I'm pretty sure that both Paul Blackburn and David Bednar will be back with the team obviously pitching matters and that does impact our comment of the day today as we did see from Robert the Grave 36 36 that as he said the players are fine my concern is the manager in the front office how do you pull out a pitcher who's hot and doing good for a cold relief pitcher with a smile on your face and that's also part of the problem the Yankees have not set their relief pitchers up to success in the previous couple seasons We even saw that in the World Series in 2024 when Aaron Boone did that. And frankly, just Aaron Boone's smile in there was just an atrocious look for the game they would get eliminated in. I am not sure Aaron Boone is going to be back with the team, but I do have a video breaking down both sides of that that is coming out as well. So make sure to stay tuned for that. Like this video, subscribe, turn on post notifications. Have a great day, and go Yankees. It didn't stop recording. Darn it.